Effects of habitat suitability for vectors, environmental factors and host characteristics on the spatial distribution of the diversity and prevalence of haemosporidians in waterbirds from three Brazilian wetlands

Table 1 Diversity indices for Plasmodium spp. found in three waterbird species from wetlands in Brazil

Species	Wetland region	No. infected	Diversity index				Haplotype
Species			s	h	H ± SD	π ± SD
Great egret	Central-west	9	4	3	0.417 ± 0.191	0.00186 ± 0.00092	MYCAMP2, ARDALP1^a, ARDALP2^a
Great egret	South	12	0	1	0.000	0.000	MYCAMP2
Roseate spoonbill	North	2	0	1	0.000	0.000	MYCAMP2
Roseate spoonbill	Central-west	17	5	4	0.419 ± 0.141	0.00145 ± 0.00068	MYCAMP2, PLATAJP1^a, PLATAJP2^a, PLATAJP3^a
Wood stork^b	North	6	2	3	0.600 ± 0.215	0.00139 ± 0.00058	MYCAMP2, MYCAMP3, MYCAMP7
Wood stork^b	Central-west	14	4	5	0.505 ± 0.158	0.00120 ± 0.00044	MYCAMP1, MYCAMP2, MYCAMP4, MYCAMP5, MYCAMP6

^aNew haplotypes of Plasmodium described in this study. ^b Data reported in Villar et al. [10]
Abbreviations: s number of segregating sites, h number of haplotypes, H gene diversity [55]; π nucleotide diversity [56]; SD standard deviation

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