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Fig. 12 | Parasites & Vectors

Fig. 12

From: Molecular-phylogenetic analyses of Ixodes species from South Africa suggest an African origin of bird-associated exophilic ticks (subgenus Trichotoixodes)

Fig. 12

Concatenated phyltree based on two mitochondrial (cox1 and 16S rRNA) and two nuclear (18S and 28S rRNA) genetic markers. The sequences of four genes were aligned with the MAFFT algorithm and then were concatenated (in the above order) in the Geneious Prime 2023.1.1 software. A Bayesian consensus tree was created using the MrBayes in the Geneious Prime software. General time-reversible model was used to create the phylogenic tree with gamma distribution and invariant sites (GTR + G + I). The chain length was set to 10,000,000, sampling frequency to 5000 and burn-in length to 100,000. The gene partitions were treated as unlinked, and the random seed was set to 3504. The Bayesian tree was analyzed in the MEGA11 11.0.10 software

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Parasites & Vectors

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