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.