Fig. 3: Population diversity of two plague epidemics in Yunnan Province.

a A minimum spanning tree of 343 Yunnan strains (rooted with CO92 strain in 1.ORI1). Circle colors indicate the sampling date, and their size is proportional to the number of strains. Large, red text, Sublineage1 and 2; smaller letters, sub-clades (for example, 1.ORI2.2.3.1). Between nodes, numbers of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), apart from one SNP, are indicated by thick and thin black lines, respectively. b Pairwise SNP distance distributions within the two main clades. The center line of the boxplot is the median, bounds of the box are the first and third quartiles, circles are the outliers. The plot is based on result in Supplementary Data 3.