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Volume 18, Number 2—February 2012
Dispatch

Phylogeography of Francisella tularensis subsp. holarctica, Europe

Miklós Gyuranecz1, Dawn N. Birdsell1, Wolf Splettstoesser, Erik Seibold, Stephen M. Beckstrom-Sternberg, László Makrai, László Fodor, Massimo Fabbi, Nadia Vicari, Anders Johansson, Joseph D. Busch, Amy J. Vogler, Paul Keim, and David M. WagnerComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary (M. Gyuranecz); Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA (D.N. Birdsell, J.D. Busch, A.J. Vogler, P. Keim, D.M. Wagner); Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany (W. Splettstoesser, E. Seibold); Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, USA (S.M. Beckstrom-Sternberg, P. Keim); Szent István University, Budapest (L. Makrai, L. Fodor); Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombradia e dell’Emilia Romagna, Pavia, Italy (M. Fabbi, N. Vicari); Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden (A. Johansson)

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Table

Melt-MAMA primers targeting canonical SNPs for 6 new phylogenetic branches in a study of Francisella tularensis subsp. holarctica, Europe*

SNP SCHU† S4 position SNP state, D/A‡ Primers, 5′ → 3′§ Con, µM¶ Tm, °C
B.33 78,382 T/C A: ATTGCTACTTCTATTTACGCCAACAG 0.20 74.3
D: GGGGCGGGGCGGGGCATTGCTACTTCTATTTACGCCAAGAA 0.20 79.0
C: TGTGAACAACCAAGTTGGCTT 0.20
B.34 766,614 A/G A: GTAGCGAGCATTATTTGCTGGTTC 0.40 69.2
D: GGGGCGGGGCGGGGCTAGCGAGCATTATTTGCTGGGTT 0.20 78.6
C: ATAAAACTATAAATTTACATAAAATGAAAACTTCTC 0.20
B.35 239,479 A/C A: GCCTTAATCTAGTATTTTCGCTTATCTCC 0.40 70.3
D: GGGGCGGGGCGGGGCGCCTTAATCTAGTATTTTCGCTTATCACA 0.20 75.5
C: CGGGCTCTAAAATAAGATTTAAGTTAGTAAGT 0.20
B.36 1,599,292 A/C A: TATTATAGTTTCTAAAAACAGTCTAATTAATTTTG 0.60 69.0
D: GGGGCGGGGCGGGGCTATTATAGTTTCTAAAAACAGTCTAATTAATTGTT 0.20 73.9
C: GTTCGACCATGACTACAGTGTTG 0.20
B.37 318,602 T/C A: AACATTTTAGGAACTCTACGATGATAAACTTAAC 0.20 69.7
D: GGGGCGGGGCGGGGCCATTTTAGGAACTCTACGATGATAAACTTGAT 0.20 75.9
C: GAAATATCTCAATGAAATCTAATTTAACTAAAATCAC 0.20
B.38 166,885 C/T A: ATGCCATCAGCCATTTACTACTCACA 0.20 73.7
D: GGGGCGGGGCGGGGCCCATCAGCCATTTACTACTCCCG 0.20 80.1
C: CTTCCCTGATTTTCTAAGTTCTGCTTG 0.20

*Melt-MAMA, melt-mismatch amplification mutation assay; SNP, single nucleotide polymorphism; con, concentration; Tm, melting temperature for ancestral and derived Melt-MAMA amplification products.
†SCHU strain GenBank accession no. NC_006570.
‡SNP states are presented according to their orientation in the SCHU S4 reference genome (AJ749949.2): D, derived SNP state; A, ancestral SNP state.
§D, derived allele primer; A, ancestral allele primer; C, common primer; primer tails and antepenultimate mismatch bases are in lower case.
¶Final concentration of each primer in Melt-MAMA genotyping assays.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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