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Table 2 Eukaryotic parasites and viruses identified from screening mosquito samples

From: Relative contributions of various endogenous and exogenous factors to the mosquito microbiota

Taxon targeted

Species identified (N positive)

Percentage Positive

Percentage Identity

Apicomplexa A

Theileria sp. (24)

3.60

100

Apicomplexa B

Plasmodium falciparum (8)

1.20

100

Apicomplexa C

Theileria sp. (3)

0.45

100

Microsporidia

Parathelohania anopheles (38)

5.71

92.47

Hazardia milleri (1)

0.15

97.38

Culicospora magna (6)

0.90

99.7

Microsporidium sp. 3 NR-2013 (34)

5.11

97.01

Nematoda A

Acanthocheilonema viteae (12)

1.80

100

Loa loa/Dipetolenma sp. (7)

1.05

99.64

Setaria labiatopapillosa (11)

1.65

100

Auanema rhodensis (1)

0.15

98.21

Nematoda B

Setaria yehi/Setaria digitate (4)

0.60

99.72

Acanthocheilonema viteae (1)

0.15

99.72

Dipetolenma sp./Filariodea sp. (3)

0.45

98.94

Flavivirus

Anopheles flavivirus variant 2 (2)

0.30

99.06

Anopheles flavivirus variant 2/variant 1 (1)

0.15

88.26

Culex flavivirus (1)

0.15

99.06

  1. Table shows the parasite and viral taxon targeted by each primer, the species identified and number of mosquitoes positive for that species, the percentage of total mosquitoes positive, and the percentage match of the sequences amplified compared to that of the NCBI database