Fig. 2: Genome based assignment of Mentese6 to Brucella melitensis.
From: An 8000 years old genome reveals the Neolithic origin of the zoonosis Brucella melitensis
a ML phylogeny (IQ-TREE267) for B. melitensis and B. abortus aligned to outgroup B. suis. The blue star indicates Mentese6. The typical animal hosts of each lineage are shown in silhouette. b Distributions of Average Nucleotide Identity (ANI) between Mentese6 and B. melitensis (n = 144) or B. abortus (n = 83). B. melitensis genomes with lower ANI with Mentese6 (<99.86%) derive from the Western Mediterranean clade, which shows elevated root-to-tip distances (Supplementary Fig. 8) indicative of an elevated mutation rate within that lineage.
