Morphology is not a reliable taxonomic tool for the genus Lernaea: molecular data and experimental infection reveal that L. cyprinacea and L. cruciata are conspecific

Table 3 Pairwise identity (below the diagonal) and variable sites (above the diagonal) for the cox1 dataset

Sequence		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
1	Lcy1_w		15	13	2	8	19	19	18	18	18	15	15	14
2	Lcy2_w	98.8		4	14	15	22	22	21	21	21	14	14	13
3	Lcy3_w	99	99.7		12	13	20	20	19	19	19	12	12	11
4	Lcy4_w	99.8	98.9	99		8	19	19	18	18	18	15	15	14
5	Lcy5_w	99.4	98.8	99	99.4		19	19	18	18	18	15	15	14
6	Lcy6_l	98.5	98.2	98.4	98.5	98.5		0	5	5	5	20	20	17
7	Lcy7_l	98.5	98.2	98.4	98.5	98.5	100		5	5	5	20	20	17
8	Lcr1_l	98.5	98.3	98.5	98.5	98.5	99.6	99.6		0	0	19	19	16
9	Lcr2_l	98.5	98.3	98.5	98.5	98.5	99.6	99.6	100		0	19	19	16
10	Lcr4_w	98.5	98.3	98.5	98.5	98.5	99.6	99.6	100	100		19	19	16
11	Lcr5_w	98.8	98.9	99	98.8	98.8	98.4	98.4	98.5	98.5	98.5		0	13
12	Lcr6_w	98.8	98.9	99	98.8	98.8	98.4	98.4	98.5	98.5	98.5	100		13
13	LcyGB	98.9	99	99.1	98.9	98.9	98.6	98.6	98.7	98.7	98.7	99	99

Notes: Lower left half shows pairwise identity (the % of bases/residues that are identical), and upper right half shows the number of variable sites. Sequences 1–12 belong to specimens from this study, and number 13 (LcyGB) is from GenBank (L. cyprinacea cox1, KM235194)
Abbreviations: Lcy, Lernaea cyprinacea; Lcr: L. cruciate; w, specimen collected in the wild; l, specimen collected from the experimental (laboratory) infection

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