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Fig. 5

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. 5

Patterns of putative Leucocytozoon species infection across host species. a Principal coordinates analysis of weighted UniFrac distances among 18 Leucocytozoon cytb haplotypes that were sampled at least twice across 381 hosts. b Paired histograms of randomized weighted UniFrac distance and barplots demonstrating differential infection across potential host families for closely related cytb haplotype pairs. Vertical lines in histograms depict the observed UniFrac distance for that putative species pair, which is also shown above each histogram with its associated significance value. Colors of the barplots correspond to the host phylogeny shown in the key to the left. UniFrac distances and barplots are depicted in two pairwise matrices for clades that contain three putative species; UniFrac distance is shown below the diagonal for each cytb haplotype pair, while above the diagonal are host infection barplots with the haplotype along the lower diagonal representing the top barplot

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BMC Ecology and Evolution

ISSN: 2730-7182

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