Figure 1.
Mummy 23 from Camarones 15-D, Northern Chile © Mario A Rivera.
Figure 2.
Picture of the Pre Columbian nit.
A pre-Columbian nit isolated from a Chilean mummy (No. 1) (h: hair; o: operculum; c: cementum) (picture taken with a ZEISS AXIO ZOOM.V16).
Figure 3.
The phylogenic tree based on ML method of the two pre-Columbian Chilean nits based on the partial Cytb gene (270 bp). HL: head louse, BL: body louse. The numbers on the branches are bootstrap values.
Figure 4.
Alignment of the clade A and clade B sequences (Chilean mummy's nit and other sequences present in GenBank) P: Philippines, G: Germany, I: Iran, U: United State of America, T: Taiwan, C: Canada, S: Senegal, Pa: Papua New Guinea, H: Honduras.