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Figure 5

From: A call to arms: on refining Plasmodium vivax microsatellite marker panels for comparing global diversity

Figure 5

Repeat length as a function of MS diversity. For all MS markers combined, the box plots compare the mean number (no) of alleles per locus (y-axis, blue) and expected heterozygosity (He) (y-axis, red) across repeat length (x1°-axis), stratified API (x2°-axis). In both API strata, API ≤0.05 (panels ii, iv) and API >0.05 (panels i, iii), the mean no of alleles per locus (p = 0.0011 and p = 0.0240, ANOVA, bivariate fit, respectively) and mean He (p <0.0001 and p = 0.0064, ANOVA, bivariate fit, respectively) were positively correlated with the repeat length.

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