Figure 5

The taxonomic relationship of the zymodemes of Leishmania tropica. The dendrogram shows the geographical distribution of the known zymodemes of L. tropica incorporating two new zymodemes of the species, zymodemes MON-288, comprising one strain from the Negev, Israel, [14] and MON-307 (at arrow), comprising the three strains from the Jenin District. This is based on the branch encompassing the strains and zymodemes of L. tropica presented by Pratlong [19] in Figure 3 of their article. Unweighted Pair Group Method with Arithmetic mean (UPGMA) phenogram obtained from the matrix of presence ⁄ absence of enzyme characters. 39 zymodemes representative of the genetic diversity of L. tropica were analyzed. Two new zymodemes were included in the data set; zymodeme MON-288, comprising one stock from the Negev, Israel, [12] and MON-307 (arrow) representative of the three stocks from the Jenin District. For each zymodeme, the different countries of origin are indicated on the right. Bootstrap values are indicated above the branches and the dash boxes (a), (b), (c) and (d) denote different clusters.