The evolution of hard tick-borne relapsing fever borreliae is correlated with vector species rather than geographical distance - Nakao, Ranna; Kasama, Kentaro; Boldbaatar, Bazartseren; Ogura, Yoshitoshi; Kawabata, Hiroki; Toyoda, Atsushi; Hayashi, Tetsuya; Takano, Ai; Maeda, Ken (BMC ecology and evolution, 2021)
Keywords: Analysis; Arachnids; Biotechnology industry; Borrelia; Borrelia miyamotoi; Care and treatment; Chromosomes; Cloning; Complications and side effects; Diagnosis; Evolution; Evolutionary biology; Evolutionary conservation; Fever; Genes; Genetic distance; Genetic diversity; Genomes; Genomics; Geography; Hard-tick borne relapsing fever; Phylogenetics; Phylogeny; Plasmids; Proteins; Relapsing fever; Speciation; Species; Spirochetes; Synteny; Tick-borne diseases; Whole-genome; Japan; Mongolia; United States; Russia; United States--US; Europe