Comment on: Gupta, 2019, distinction between Borrelia and Borreliella is more robustly supported by molecular and phenotypic characteristics than all other neighbouring prokaryotic genera: Response to Margos’ et al. “The genus Borrelia reloaded” (PLoS One 13(12): e0208432). PLoS One 14(8):e0221397

Funding

This study was part-funded by the Australian Postgraduate Award (AG), the International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (SML), the Australian Research Council (LP160100200 to CO), Bayer HealthCare (Germany) and Bayer Australia, the Murdoch University Small Grant Scheme (CO), the Robert-Koch-Institute via the German National Reference The authors acknowledge Cecilia Hizo-Teufel, Christine Hartberger und Sylvia Stockmeier for excellent technical support. The sequencing service was provided by the Norwegian Sequencing Centre (http://www.sequencing.uio.no), a national technology platform hosted by the University of Oslo and supported by the \u201CFunctional Genomics\u201D and \u201CInfrastructure\u201D programs of the Research Council of Norway and the Southeastern Regional Health Authorities. The authors gratefully acknowledge the services of DSMZ.