Figure 5

Impact of indel events on C. trachomatis's evolution and ecological success. (a) Evolutionary γ-distances for the global concatenated data within (colored boxes) and between (grey boxes) disease groups (ocular, epithelial-genital and LGV). Boxes represent the variability of all distance estimates, while the vertical line within each box divides 50% of all values. The minimum and maximum distances are represented by the extremes of each horizontal line. (b) Impact of indel events on C. trachomatis's ecological success. The mean γ-distances from any ocular (yellow), epithelial-genital (pink) or LGV (blue) strain to E/F strains are represented in parentheses. Each evolutionary distance was normalized against the distance between E and F. The relative length of each line is represented in the correct scale.