Table 1 Amino acid divergences between pairs of Plasmodium taxa.

From: Zoonotic origin of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium malariae from African apes

Species 1

Species 2

% Amino acid divergencea

Relative divergenceb

M1 (P. malariae)

M1-like

0.44

1

M1 (P. malariae)

M2

8.49

19.2

M1-like

M2

8.47

19.2

P. falciparum

P. praefalciparum

0.28

0.6

P. falciparum

P. reichenowi

1.58

3.6

P. falciparum

P. gaboni

5.37

12.2

P. ovale-curtisi

P. ovale-wallikeri

2.80

6.3

human P. vivax

ape P. vivaxc

0.81

1.8

P. vivax

P. knowlesi

9.00

20.4

P. berghei

P. chabaudi

6.50

14.7

  1. aFrom 186 protein sequence alignments.
  2. bDivergence of each species pair relative to the divergence between M1 and M1-like.
  3. cAs yet it is unclear whether human P. vivax and ape P. vivax are separate species.
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