Fig. 3

Phylogenetic relationships of the present Rhipicephalus sanguineus (s.l.) sequences (in bold) to other Rhipicephalus spp. based on a portion of the mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene. As most sequences (n = 34) were identified as belonging to the tropical lineage Rh. sanguineus (s.l.), representatives were selected for each country. The analyses were performed using a Maximum Likelihood method with Tamura 3-parameter model. A discrete Gamma distribution was used to model evolutionary rate differences among sites. GenBank accession number, isolation source and country of origin are presented for each sequence