Fig. 6

Phylogeny of Hepatozoon spp. associated with carnivores (Clade II). Maximum likelihood (ML) and Bayesian inference (BI) 18S rRNA gene consensus tree constructed for a subset of Hepatozoon spp. using 241 sequences and an alignment of 2,001 bp. Best-fit evolutionary models calculated for ML and BI methods were TVM+F+G4 and M134, M85, M15, respectively. Ultrafast-bootstrap values and Bayesian posterior probabilities are indicated above or below each branch. Asterisks (*) indicate node support of 100/1 for ML and BI, respectively. GenBank accession numbers are located at the end of tip labels. The scale bar indicates number of nucleotide substitutions per site. The phylogeny on the left represents a section of the complete Hepatozoon phylogeny. A dashed branch symbolizes the connection between this section and the remaining of the phylogeny