Table 2 Morphological and molecular identification of Angiostrongylus species
Region | No. | Morphological identification | Molecular identification | Misidentification by morphological characters (%) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
cytb gene (mtDNA) | ITS2 (nuDNA) | ||||||||
Ac (%) | Am (%) | Ac (%) | Am (%) | Ac (%) | Am (%) | Hybrid (%) | |||
Sino-Himalayan | 42 | 26.2 | 73.8 | 23.8 | 76.2 | 28.6 | 69.0 | 2.4 | 33.3 |
Indo-Burmese | 43 | 32.6 | 67.4 | 18.6 | 81.4 | 25.6 | 60.5 | 13.9 | 32.5 |
Indo-Chinese | 57 | 36.8 | 63.2 | 59.6 | 40.4 | 59.6 | 36.9 | 3.5 | 42.1 |
Sundaic | 82 | 39.0 | 61.0 | 39.0 | 61.0 | 39.0 | 46.3 | 14.7 | 37.8 |
Central | 33 | 42.4 | 57.6 | 78.8 | 21.2 | 78.8 | 21.2 | 0 | 36.3 |
Total | 257 | 35.8 | 64.2 | 42.8 | 57.2 | 44.7 | 47.1 | 8.2 | 36.9 |