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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. 4

The relationship between cytb and nuclear divergence in Leucocytozoon is inconsistent and clade-dependent. a Among 14 pairs of Leucocytozoon cytb haplotypes (17 haplotypes total), the divergence between them is not strongly associated with nuclear divergence for the seven loci sequenced in this study. b The relationship between cytb divergence and nuclear divergence appears to be clade dependent, as the clade consisting of CB1/ACAFLA04/CARPUS01/JUNHYE04 (which were all found to be conspecific) exhibits no association between cytb divergence and nuclear divergence while the clade consisting of ACAFLA03/CATUST14/PERCAN01 exhibits strong nuclear differentiation across the same scale of cytb divergence, though nuclear divergence does not appear to increase with cytb divergence

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BMC Ecology and Evolution

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