Figure 2
Matrix of sequence differences on pairwise comparisons of the mitochondrial 12S rDNA gene for 17 R. microplus strains, R. annulatus , R. decoloratus and R. kohlsi. Proportion of nucleotide differences (102) (p-distance) are shown in the lower left matrix. It is obtained by dividing the number of nucleotide differences by the total number of nucleotides compared. (OTUs Operational taxonomic units, 1 Argentina, 2 Bolivia, 3 Brazil, 4 Costa Rica, 5 Paraguay, 6 Uruguay, 7 South Africa, 8 Tanzania, 9 Mozambique, 10 Australia A, 11 Australia B, 12 Australia C, 13 Australia AF031847, 14 New Caledonia, 15 Nepal AF150042, 16 Indonesia, 17 India, 18 R. annulatus Egypt, 19 R. annulatus AM410573, 20 R. annulatus AF133058, 21 R. annulatus U95866, 22 R. decoloratus South Africa, 23 R. decoloratus AF150044, 24 R. decoloratus AF031846, 25 R. kohlsi AY008686, 26 R. kohlsi AF150043).