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From: Integrating coalescent species delimitation with analysis of host specificity reveals extensive cryptic diversity despite minimal mitochondrial divergence in the malaria parasite genus Leucocytozoon

Fig. 2

Nuclear divergence of Leucocytozoon cytb haplotypes. Depicted are five clades that contain pairs of cytb haplotypes that differ by one to three base pairs (as shown in the distance matrices of cytb differences to the right of the networks). In each clade haplotypes are given a different color that corresponds to the haplotype networks. a haplotypes PERCAN01, ACAFLA03, and CATUST14, which differ by one to three bases, are differentiated across all nuclear loci and never share nuclear alleles. The three sequences that are marked by asterisks represent outlier samples of high divergence that were removed prior to species delimitation analysis due to the possibility that they contained mixed infections; b) ROFI06 and LOXLEU05 differ by a single base pair and are weakly differentiated across nuclear loci, sharing nuclear alleles for a single locus; c) ZOLEU02 and ZOLEU04 differ by a single base pair and share alleles across multiple nuclear loci; d) haplotypes CB1, JUNHYE04, CARPUS01, and ACAFLA04 differ by one to three bases, but share alleles across multiple nuclear loci. In addition, haplotype pairs TRPIP2/ACAFLA01 and BT1/PHYBOR01 differ by a single base pair but share nuclear alleles; e) CATUST28 and CATMIN05 differ by two bases but are highly differentiated across all nuclear loci. Note that not all nuclear loci are depicted for each clade due to insufficient sample sizes for some haplotypes

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