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Fig. 7 | Parasites & Vectors

Fig. 7

From: Histozoic myxosporeans infecting the stomach wall of elopiform fishes represent a novel lineage, the Gastromyxidae

Fig. 7

Maximum likelihood topology based on 1851 characters of aligned small subunit rDNA of 33 histozoic marine myxosporeans. The phylogenetic tree has a well-supported spine (nodes A-C), forming three distinct and robustly supported groups. Gastromyxum rafii and G. bulani form a fully supported clade from node A which represents the new family and genus Gastromyxidae: Gastromyxum (blue area). The two species known from monogeneans are well-supported from node B, and represent the new family and genus Monomyxidae: Monomyxum (brown area). From node C, the Kudoidae (purple area) and Trilosporidae (grey area), the two families that comprise the multivalvulida, form robustly supported sister clades. Basal to the Gastromyxidae is the well-supported clade of intestinal myxosporeans comprising the Enteromyxum spp. (orange area), whilst the histozoic intestinal myxosporean Ceratonova shasta was used as an outgroup. Values at the nodes represent bootstrap support from 1000 resamplings

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