Fig. 3

Graph showing the size of sporocysts (length plotted against diameter, in μm; error bars indicate s.e.) of the Sarcocystis isolates from the colubrid snakes Coelognathus flavolineatus and C. radiatus in Thailand and closely related Sarcocystis. Every isolate/species is indicated by a different symbol (legend), whereby sporocyst samples with the same shape index (= length/diameter) share the same background shading: white = 1.3; dark = 1.5; Sarcocystis pantherophisi = 1.2. Here, S. pantherophisi is included as reference for the snake host Sarcocystis lineage S2, while all other species belong to lineage S1 (except for S. murinotechis, for which no genetic information is available)