Redescription, molecular characterisation and taxonomic re-evaluation of a unique African monitor lizard haemogregarine Karyolysus paradoxa (Dias, 1954) n. comb. (Karyolysidae)

Table 3 Representation of evolutionary divergence of the different clades in relation to Karyolysus paradoxa (Dias, 1954)

Clade	Similarity	p-distance	Nucleotide difference	Parsimony informative sites (%)
Known Karyolysus (4)	97.7	0.02	14 (11–18)	73
‘Intraleucocytic’ Hepatozoon (5)	95.7	0.04 (0.03–0.05)	26 (18–45)	29
Hepatozoon (8)	94.4	0.05 (0.03–0.09)	33 (21–56)	46
Hemolivia (5)	97.0	0.03	18 (17–20)	66
Haemogregarina (5)	94.7	0.05	32 (29–34)	68

Summative representation of clades shown in Fig. 4, showing clades with number of sequences in parentheses, the average percent similarity, average uncorrected p-distance with range in parentheses, average base pair difference with range in parentheses, and percent parsimony informative sites, all compared to the two sequences as shown in Fig. 4 of Karyolysus (syn. Hepatozoon) paradoxa from Varanus albigularis albigularis. Note that only the known Karyolysus species have been used from the Karyolysus clade

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