The wild, wild west of plasmids: First insights into comparative genomics of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato

• Sabrina Hepner ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sabrina.hepner@lgl.bayern.de

  ¶ESGBOR members.

  Affiliations German National Reference Centre for Borrelia, Oberschleissheim, Germany, Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority, Oberschleissheim, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0009-0000-7768-4867

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• Robert E. Rollins,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Avian Research “Vogelwarte Helgoland”, Wilhelmshaven, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5779-7001

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• Evangelos Mourkas,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Zoonosis Science Centre, Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7411-4743

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• Konstantin Kuleshov,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Central Research Institute of Epidemiology, Moscow, Russia

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• Sherwood Casjens,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Biological Sciences and Division of Microbiology and Immunology, Pathology Department, University of Utah School, Utah, United States of America

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• Weigang Qiu,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Graduate Center and Hunter College, City University of New York, New York, United States of America

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• Alexandra Dangel,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority, Oberschleissheim, Germany

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• Dunia Velázquez,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation German National Reference Centre for Borrelia, Oberschleissheim, Germany

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• Sergey Y. Kovalev,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Natural Science and Mathematics, Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, Russia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4669-5288

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• Andreas Wieser,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Max von Pettenkofer Institute, Faculty of Medicine, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany, Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, LMU University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner site Munich, Munich, Germany, Imunology, Infectious Disease and Pandemic Research (IIP), Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology (ITMP), Munich, Germany

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• Johannes Hübner,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Dr. von Hauner Children’s Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany

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• Andreas Sing ,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶ESGBOR members.

  Affiliations German National Reference Centre for Borrelia, Oberschleissheim, Germany, Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority, Oberschleissheim, Germany

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• Volker Fingerle ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶ESGBOR members.

  Affiliations German National Reference Centre for Borrelia, Oberschleissheim, Germany, Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority, Oberschleissheim, Germany

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• Gabriele Margos

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶ESGBOR members.

  Affiliations German National Reference Centre for Borrelia, Oberschleissheim, Germany, Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority, Oberschleissheim, Germany

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