Dissecting the molecular diversity and commonality of bovine and human treponemes identifies key survival and adhesion mechanisms

• Gareth J. Staton ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These two authors contributed equally to this work as joint first authors.

  Affiliation Department of Infection Biology & Microbiomes, Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Leahurst Campus, Neston, United Kingdom

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• Simon R. Clegg ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These two authors contributed equally to this work as joint first authors.

  Affiliation School of Life Sciences, College of Science, University of Lincoln, Brayford Pool Campus, Lincoln, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3100-2896

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• Stuart Ainsworth,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom.

  Affiliation Department of Infection Biology & Microbiomes, Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Leahurst Campus, Neston, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0199-6482

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• Stuart Armstrong,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Infection Biology & Microbiomes, Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Leahurst Campus, Neston, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3862-1801

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• Stuart D. Carter,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Infection Biology & Microbiomes, Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Leahurst Campus, Neston, United Kingdom

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• Alan D. Radford,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Infection Biology & Microbiomes, Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Leahurst Campus, Neston, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4590-1334

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• Alistair Darby,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Infection Biology & Microbiomes, Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Leahurst Campus, Neston, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3786-6209

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• Jonathan Wastling,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Natural Sciences, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5894-4608

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• Neil Hall,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Earlham Institute, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom, School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom, Department of Biological Sciences, King Abdulaziz University (KAU), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2808-0009

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• Nicholas J. Evans

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: evansnj@liverpool.ac.uk

  Affiliation Department of Infection Biology & Microbiomes, Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Leahurst Campus, Neston, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2950-1007

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