Fig. 2

Phylogenetic relationship of Enterocytozoon bieneusi genotype groups. The relationship of E. bieneusi genotypes identified in the present study and other known genotypes deposited in GenBank was inferred by a neighbor-joining analysis of ITS sequences based on genetic distance by the Kimura two-parameter model. The numbers on the branches are percent bootstrapping values from 1000 replicates. Each sequence is identified by its accession number, host origin, and genotype designation. The group terminology for the clusters is based on the work of Karim et al. [25]. The solid and open circles indicate novel and known genotypes identified in this study, respectively