Diversification of Orientia tsutsugamushi genotypes by intragenic recombination and their potential expansion in endemic areas
Fig 6
Estimation of recombination and mutation rates of O. tsutsugamushi genes.
Recombination and mutation rate per site of 53 genes were calculated by LDhat installed in RDP program. Sequences of 53 gene sets were extracted from nine O. tsutsugamushi genomes available in NCBI database. Average recombination rate per base pair (ρ/bp) of 53 gene sets is 0.083 and average mutation rate per base pair (θ/bp) is 0.020 (blue lines). Genes encoding known membrane proteins are indicated as red dots. Detailed information of the gene sets is presented in S7 Table.