Mitochondrial phylogeography and population structure of the cattle tick Rhipicephalus appendiculatus in the African Great Lakes region

Table 2 Rhipicephalus appendiculatus cox1 haplotypes distribution (%) and genetic diversity indices in six agro-ecological zones of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi and Rwanda

Country	AEZ	n	h	Haplotype (frequency in %)^a,b	Haplogroup^c (%)		Genetic diversity indices
Country	AEZ	n	h	Haplotype (frequency in %)^a,b	A	B	S (PIS)	Hd (SD)	K	π (SD)
DRC	AEZ1	46	10	CH1(30), CH2(28), CH5(6), CH6(2), CH7(4), CH8(2), CH11(9), CH13(11), CH16(4), CH17(2)	85	15	17 (16)	0.82 (0.03)	4.4 (2.2)	0.007 (0.002)
	AEZ2	54	12	CH1(18), CH2(30), CH5(28), CH7(2), CH11(2), CH12(4), CH13(4), CH18(4), CH19(4), CH20(2), CH21(2), CH22(2)	92	8	20 (17)	0.81 (0.03)	3.1 (1.6)	0.005 (0.001)
	AEZ3	46	7	CH1(17), CH2(33), CH5(28), CH11(9), CH12(6), CH13(4), CH14(2)	96	4	16 (15)	0.79 (0.03)	2.4 (1.3)	0.004 (0.001)
Burundi	AEZ1	26	8	CH1(50), CH2(19), CH3(4), CH4(4), CH5(11), CH6(4), CH7(4), CH10(4)	96	4	18 (3)	0.72 (0.08)	2.01 (1.2)	0.003 (0.001)
Burundi	AEZ3	17	5	CH1(29), CH2(35), CH5(23), CH8(6), CH9(6)	100	0	4 (2)	0.77 (0.06)	1.1 (0.9)	0.002 (0.0003)
Rwanda	AEZ2	20	8	CH1(30), CH2(20), CH4(5), CH5(5), CH7(20), CH11(5), CH13(10), CH15(5)	70	30	18 (13)	0.85 (0.05)	6.3 (3.1)	0.011 (0.002)
Total		209	22	–	90	10	27 (21)	0.81(0.01)	3.4 (1.7)	0.006 (0.0006)

Abbreviations: AEZ agro-ecological zones, n number of sequences, h number of haplotypes, S segregation sites, PIS parsimony informative sites, Hd haplotype diversity, SD standard deviation; K mean number of pairwise nucleotide differences, π nucleotide diversity, CH1-22 names of cox1 haplotypes
^aHaplotypes belonging to the haplogroup B are underlined
^bBold indicates shared haplotypes by all agro-ecological zones
^cA and B are haplogroup names

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