Phylogeny of seven Bulinus species originating from endemic areas in three African countries, in relation to the human blood fluke Schistosoma haematobium

Table 1 Sequence diversity in mitochondrial and nuclear ribosomal genes from seven Bulinus species collected in different African countries

	Countries	n	u	Hd	π	D (P-value)	Fs (P-value)
Cox1
B. truncatus	All	56	35	0.911	0.050	−1.834*	−6.209*
	Cameroon	24	20	0.955	0.042	−1.712	−0.249
	Egypt	20	4	0.508	0.023	0.844	1.997
	Senegal	12	9	0.961	0.053	−0.867	−4.159
B. globosus	Cameroon	20	18	0.978	0.035	−1.082	−1.351
B. senegalensis	All	50	45	0.992	0.052	−1.611	−8.626
	Cameroon	16	14	0.964	0.051	−0.364	−0.141
	Senegal	34	30	0.985	0.053	−1.666	−2.707
B. tropicus	Cameroon	10	8	0.932	0.045	−0.271	−1.531
B. forskalii	Cameroon	10	8	0.933	0.051	−0.027	−2.667
B. umbilicatus	Senegal	8	5	0.850	0.035	1.466	2.921
B. camerunensis	Cameroun	6	4	0.899	0.016	−0.8374	1.655
18S
B. truncatus	All	30	3	0.157	0.001	−0.483	−4.121
	Cameroon	10	1	0.000	0.000	-	-
	Egypt	10	1	0.000	0.000	-	-
	Senegal	10	3	0.378	0.002	−0.507	2.199
B. globosus	Cameroon	10	3	0.417	0.001	−1.233	−0.189
B. senegalensis	All	20	9	0.863	0.002	−0.009	−4.792
	Cameroon	10	7	0.853	0.002	0.168	−4.538
	Senegal	10	6	0.801	0.001	0.592	−0.658
B. forskalii	Cameroon	10	4	0.458	0.001	−0.612	0.172
28S
B. truncatus	All	30	13	0.505	0.007	−1.956*	−4.095
	Cameroon	10	5	0.539	0.008	−1.116	−0.062
	Egypt	10	4	0.504	0.006	1.193	1.716
	Senegal	10	6	0.568	0.009	−1.323	−1.285
B. globosus	Cameroon	10	7	0.831	0.004	1.168	−0.946
B. senegalensis	All	20	14	0.955	0.012	−0.159	−1.962
	Cameroon	10	8	0.893	0.011	−1.375	−1.785
	Senegal	10	9	0.956	0.013	1.168	−0.946
B. forskalii	Cameroon	10	7	0.834	0.012	1.365	7.499**

Note.— n: number of individuals sequenced, U: number of unique haplotypes within countries, Hd: haplotype diversity, π: nucleotide diversity, D: Tajima’s D statistic, Fs: Fu’s Fs statistic.
*P < 0.05 ; **P < 0.0.

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