Fig. 2

Sliding window plots of the average pair-wise nucleotide diversity (π), Tajima’s D values, Fu and Li’s D* values and Fu and Li’s F* values of the msp-3 gene of Plasmodium falciparum in Thailand. a The nucleotide diversity was plotted by a sliding window with a window size of 60 bp. and a step size of 3 bp. The maximum diversity (π > 0.02) was detected between nucleotide positions 252–552 bp. Sliding window plots of b Tajima’s D values, c Fu and Li’s D* values and d Fu and Li’s F* values were performed with a window size of 60 bp. and a step size of 3 bp. Elevated D and F* values were detected between nucleotide positions 252–552 bp. and 252–561 bp., respectively. Significant D values were located between nucleotide positions 252–528, excluding the nucleotide positions 351–375 bp. Red and dash lines indicate P values of <0.05 and <0.02