Fig. 3
From: Global sequence diversity of the lactate dehydrogenase gene in Plasmodium falciparum
Maximum likelihood tree of 61 unique alleles of the gene encoding lactate dehydrogenase (ldh) from 12 Plasmodium parasite species. The sequences are named according to parasite species and allelic type. The first two/three letters indicate parasite species: Pf (P. falciparum), Pm (P. malariae), Po (P. ovale), Pv (P. vivax), Pp (P. praefalciparum), Pr (P. reichenowi), Pbi (P. billcollinsi), Pbl (P. blacklocki), Pa (P. alderi), Pg (P. gaboni), Pk (P. knowlesi) and Pc (P. cynomolgi). Species showed on the right side are labelled with colour representing parasite host: Homo sapiens (blue), Gorilla gorilla (black), Pan troglodytes (green), and Macaca fascicularis (red). The tree was constructed using the aligned sequences of 768 nucleotides, corresponding to nucleotide positions 52–819 in P. falciparum strain 3D7. Bootstrap values are shown next to the nodes. The scale bar represents nucleotide substitutions per site