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Fig. 3 | Parasites & Vectors

Fig. 3

From: Diversity and evolutionary genetics of the three major Plasmodium vivax merozoite genes participating in reticulocyte invasion in southern Mexico

Fig. 3

Linkage disequilibrium (D’ and R2 indexes) in P. vivax merozoite gene fragments: a) msp1 42 , b) ama1 I-II and c) dbp II . Significant D’ values for all gene fragments were mostly polarized to the upper and lower range (from −1.0 to 1.0), except in msp1 42 . R2 values were high and diminished with nucleotide distance in dbp II and msp1 42 , while remaining high in ama1 I-II . Circles in grey indicate a significant non-random association between nucleotide variants at different polymorphic sites, according to Fisher’s exact test at a 95 % confidence level

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