Fig. 3: Phylogeny of Hepatocystis parasites isolated from chimpanzees and one putative human host.
From: The ecology and epidemiology of malaria parasitism in wild chimpanzee reservoirs
Bayesian phylogeny generated from an alignment of N = 19 SGA-derived Hepatocystis cytB sequences (965 bp) produced in this study and N = 56 previously published Hepatocystis sequences from African Old World monkeys, Asian Old World monkeys, and other mammals. Chimpanzee parasite lineages cluster within a wide range of African Old World monkey parasites, suggesting a capacity to cross species boundaries. Sequences are annotated with respect to mammalian host species. Tip labels corresponding to Hepatocystis lineages isolated from Kanyawara fecal samples are colored red, and one human sample is colored violet. The remaining tip labels are colored with respect to chimpanzee sub-species (blue: Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii; orange: Pan troglodytes troglodytes; green: Pan troglodytes ellioti). Newly generated sequences are listed in Supplementary Data 3, and previously published reference sequences used in this figure are listed in Supplementary Data 2.
