Low MSP-1 haplotype diversity in the West Palearctic population of the avian malaria parasite Plasmodium relictum

Table 3 Host species and sampling location of infections of Plasmodium relictum cyt b lineages SGS1 and GRW11 used for sequencing the full msp1 gene

Host species	Lineage	Haplotype	Sample location	% coverage less than 5x	Gaps in MSP1 block 14
Coccothraustes coccothraustes	GRW11	Pr2	Lithuania	4 (187)	0
Passer domesticus	GRW11	Pr2	Lithuania	0	0
Passer domesticus	GRW11	Pr2	Lithuania	0	0
Passer domesticus	SGS1	Pr2	Bulgaria	11.2 (530)	0
Passer domesticus	SGS1	Pr2	Bulgaria	43.4 (2056)	89/269 (32.5%)
Passer domesticus	SGS1	Pr2	Bulgaria	32.5 (1536)	14/269 (5.2%)
Passer domesticus	SGS1	Pr2	Lithuania	0	0
Passer domesticus	SGS1	Pr2	Lithuania	0	0
Passer domesticus	SGS1	Pr2	Lithuania	0.2 (8)	0
Coccothraustes coccothraustes	SGS1	Pr2	Lithuania	0	0
Loxia curvirostra	SGS1	Pr2	Lithuania	1.1 (50)	0

% coverage refers to the percentage of nucleotides, out of the total of 4737 bp (excluding the stop codon), that had a sequence coverage less than 5; in parenthesis the actual number of nucleotide positions are presented. Gaps in msp1 block 14 refers to the number of nucleotide positions, out of the total, at this section of the gene, that had missing data (in parenthesis the % is presented)

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