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Volume 20, Number 7—July 2014
Dispatch

Diversity of Francisella tularensis Subsp. holarctica Lineages, China

Yanhua Wang, Yao Peng, Rong HaiComments to Author , Lianxu Xia, Hang Li, Zhikai Zhang, Hong Cai, Ying Liang, Xiaona Shen, Dongzheng Yu, Dawn Birdsell, David M. Wagner, and Paul KeimComments to Author 
Author affiliations: National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention; State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control; Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Beijing, China (Y. Wang, Y. Peng, R. Hai, L. Xia, Z. Zhang, H. Cai, Y. Liang, X. Shen, D. Yu); Beijing Genomics Institute–Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China (H. Li); Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA (D. Birdsell, D.M. Wagner, P. Keim)

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Figure 1

Evolutionary development of Francisella tularensis subsp. holarctica. Previous studies (6,7,11) defined the major lineages of this subspecies on the bases of whole-genome sequences and single-nucleotide polymorphism analysis. The other F. tularensis subspecies and closely-related Francisella species are shown at the root.

Figure 1. Evolutionary development of Francisella tularensis subspholarcticaPrevious studies (6,7,11) defined the major lineages of this subspecies on the bases of whole-genome sequences and single-nucleotide polymorphism analysisThe other Ftularensis subspecies and closely-related Francisella species are shown at the root.

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