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Fig. 5 | Parasites & Vectors

Fig. 5

From: Phylogenetic analysis of the Australasian paralysis ticks and their relatives (Ixodidae: Ixodes: Sternalixodes)

Fig. 5

Genetic relationships of specimens of Sternalixodes from Argentina, Australia, New Zealand and Uruguay. The relationships were inferred based on phylogenetic analyses of the second internal transcribed spacer (ITS-2) sequence data determined herein (bold) using Bayesian Inference (BI), distance-based Neighbor Joining (NJ) and Maximum Likelihood (ML) methods. Previously published sequences of Ixodes species were obtained from GenBank (see accession numbers). Ixodes uriae was used as the outgroup. There was a concordance in the topology between this NJ tree and those produced using BI and ML (not shown). Nodal support (from left to right) is given as a posterior probability for BI and bootstrap values for NJ and ML. The scale-bar indicates the number of inferred substitutions per nucleotide site

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