Figure 3

Polychromophilus shares its most recent common ancestor with avian and reptilian Plasmodium. Shown is the 50% majority-rule consensus tree from the Bayesian inference analysis. The phylogenetic reconstruction using maximum likelihood produced a similar tree. For clarity all clades except the Polychromophilus are collapsed and replaced by coloured triangles. Each colour represents a different haemosporidian group. The dots indicate Bayesian node support. Closed dots indicate a posterior probability ≥ 0.95, open dots a posterior probability ≥ 0.90. Node values indicate bootstrap values. Branch lengths represent the number of substitutions. The single blue branch belongs to a Plasmodium sp. infecting the skink Egernia stokesii.