“…In order to obtain insight into the genomic diversity and relationship between clonal linages of Fom, we collected a diverse set of Fom strains originating from different geographical locations across the world including Belgium [ 33 ], China [ 31 , 32 ], France [ 24 , 35 , 36 , 43 ], Iran [ 22 , 23 , 38 – 40 , 42 , 44 , 45 , 48 – 51 , 53 – 59 ], Israel [ 52 ], Japan [ 30 , 41 ], New Zealand [ 28 , 29 ], Spain [ 37 ], the Netherlands [ 26 ], and the United States [ 25 , 34 , 46 , 47 ]. Genomic DNA was isolated as described in Sabahi et al [ 13 ]. The quality of extracted genomic DNA was evaluated by Nano-Drop, Qubit, and agarose gel electrophoresis.…”