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Fig. 3 | Parasites & Vectors

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From: New insights into the evolution of the Trypanosoma cruzi clade provided by a new trypanosome species tightly linked to Neotropical Pteronotus bats and related to an Australian lineage of trypanosomes

Fig. 3

Positioning of T. wauwau in the phylogenetic tree of Trypanosoma. Phylogenetic tree (ML) inferred using whole SSU rRNA sequences from the trypanosomes of Noctilionoidea Neotropical bats: T. wauwau, to date found exclusively in Pteronotus bats clustered with the trypanosomes of the clade T. spp. Neobats (Panamanian, Colombian and Brazilian Phyllostomidae bats) close to the clade of Australian bats. The analyses included species of all major clades of Trypanosoma and trypanosomatids of other genera as outgroups (1.728 characters, –Ln = -8870.359849). The numbers at the nodes correspond respectively to P, ML (500 replicates) and BI support values. Codes within parenthesis are GenBank accession numbers

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