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From: Trypanosoma livingstonei: a new species from African bats supports the bat seeding hypothesis for the Trypanosoma cruzi clade

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Phylogeographical analysis of T. livingstonei , other bat trypanosomes and species from other mammals that nested into the clade T. cruzi . ( a ) Geographic origin of all trypanosomes included in the phylogenetic analysis, with the map from Mozambique (south-eastern Africa) where T. livingstonei was isolated in detail. ( b ) ML phylogenetic analysis based on concatenated sequences of SSU rRNA and gGAPDH sequences (3.318 characters, –Ln = 12694.460743) from 6 T. livingstonei isolates, 20 isolates from other species of bat trypanosomes, and 13 trypanosomes from other mammalian orders; all the selected trypanosomes were previously positioned in the T. cruzi clade (GenBank accession numbers are listed on Table 1). Species from the T. lewisi clade were used as outgroups. Numbers are bootstrap values derived from 500 replicates in the P/ML/BI analyses.

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