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

Table 1 Nuclear genes sequenced for multi-locus species delimitation in this study

Gene	Aligned length (bp)	Aligned length (bp) no outgroup	N	Model
ATPase2	517	452	63	GTR + I + G
RPB1	1035	854	65	GTR + I + G
POLD1	484	484	54	GTR + I + G
KPBN1	430	430	66	GTR + I + G
PRPF6	530	455	41	HKY + G
SEC24A	628	610	58	GTR + G
SF3B1	388	388	39	HKY + G

Alignment lengths, number of samples that amplified and sequenced successfully, and best fit model of nucleotide substitution as estimated in jModelTest2 for each gene. Alignment lengths differ in some loci with the outgroup removed due to the deletion of gaps

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