Figure 3
From: Colonization of Grande Comore Island by a lineage of Rhipicephalus appendiculatus ticks
Median network illustrating the relationships between the 9 mitochondrial haplotypes based on the co1 gene of R. appendiculatus. All those haplotypes were described in Mtambo et al. 2007 (except the haplotype 9, see text). Each circle corresponds to an haplotype, except the 2 smaller green circles that are « median Vectors » (corresponding to hypothesised sequences which are required to connect existing sequences within the network with maximum parsimony). Each orthogonal bar along the bold lines corresponding to a substitution in the data set. Pie-charts illustrate the frequency of the different haplotypes in the Mtambo et 2007 study [9], and in the present study, concerning only samples from Grande Comore.