Fig. 3

Phylogenetic analysis of Theileria cervi isolates in farmed and wild cervids. Maximum Likelihood phylogenetic tree generated from the partial DNA sequences of the V4 variable region of the small ribosomal subunits of the Theileria found in Florida farmed and wild white-tailed deer in this study (shown in bold) and closely related Theileria sequences isolated from cervine species in northern Texas, Wisconsin and Oklahoma, obtained from the NCBI database (GenBank accession numbers are shown). Previously established Theileria cervi Type F and Type G sequences are indicated, as well as the divergent genotype, referred to as Type X. Molecular distances were estimated using the Tamura-Nei model, and bootstrap support values are shown as percentages at the major nodes based on 1000 replicates. Phylogenetic distances are depicted by branch lengths that correlate with the number of substitutions inferred according to the scale shown