Acknowledgments
The Pacific Bioscience SMRT sequencing service was provided by the Norwegian Sequencing Centre (www.sequencing.uio.no), a national technology platform hosted by the University of Oslo and supported by the “Functional Genomics” and “Infrastructure” programs of the Research Council of Norway and the South-eastern Regional Health Authorities.
We would like to thank all past members of the Evolutionary Biology group at the LMU, all lab technicians and colleagues at the National Reference Centre for Borrelia , the National Institute of Infection Diseases in Tokyo for allowing us to work in their facilities, all members of the Evolutionary Ecology of Variation group of the Max Plank Institute for Ornithology and the Behavioural Ecology group at LMU for allowing us to collect ticks in their study plots. This work was done in association with the Graduate School of Life Science, Munich.