Population structure of a microparasite infecting Daphnia: spatio-temporal dynamics

Table 3 Results of AMOVA to explore the association between Caullerya mesnili parasite genotypes and the genetic (i.e., species) identity of Daphnia hosts

DNA extraction	Source of variation	df	Percent variation	P -value
10 single hosts/lake sample
	Among lakes	2	25.2	0.013
	Among host species, within lake	3	−0.1	0.32
	Within host species	332	74.9	<0.001

Daphnia species identity was assigned using 15 microsatellite loci (see Additional file 1: Figure S1). Calculations were based on the frequency of representative ITS-sequence variants (TCS-types) in C. mesnili parasite DNA (10 individually genotyped Daphnia hosts per sample; for selection of samples see Table 1).

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