posted on 2013-09-03, 02:17authored byShawn R. Lockhart, Naureen Iqbal, Julie R. Harris, Nina T. Grossman, Emilio DeBess, Ron Wohrle, Nicola Marsden-Haug, Duc J. Vugia
The neighbor-joining tree was constructed using the maximum-likelihood model and reveals two well supported clades. Bootstrap values (1000 replicates) are shown next to the branches. CA isolates are blue, Pacific Northwest isolates are red and Southeast US isolates are green.