Table 2 Infracommunity diversity indices (Richness, Shannon–Wiener, Simpson) ± 95% confidence intervals for macroparasite taxa for each lake, and p-value of the Kruskall–Wallis or Wilcoxon tests among lakes.

From: The macroparasite fauna of cichlid fish from Nicaraguan lakes, a model system for understanding host–parasite diversification and speciation

Index

Great lakes

Crater lakes

Nicaraguaa

Managuab

Asososca Leónc

Apoyequed

Xiloáe

Masayaf

Apoyog

p-value

Species richness

2.45 ± 0.38g

2.21 ± 0.43g

2.82 ± 0.41dg

2.09 ± 0.41cg

2.77 ± 0.35g

2.47 ± 0.59g

3.53 ± 0.39abcdef

p < 0.001

Shannon–Wiener

0.27 ± 0.05g

0.27 ± 0.05g

0.23 ± 0.06g

0.38 ± 0.15fe

0.14 ± 0.16dg

0.13 ± 0.12dg

0.41 ± 0.06abce

p < 0.001

Simpson

0.36 ± 0.05

0.39 ± 0.06ce

0.24 ± 0.07b

0.22 ± 0.09

0.21 ± 0.07b

0.36 ± 0.12

0.29 ± 0.06

p < 0.001

  1. Different letters indicate statistically significant differences in paired comparisons (p-values < 0.05).
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