Fig 1.
Images of nematode eggs (A) Enterobius spp.; (B) Strongyloides spp.; (C) Strongylid type egg (D) Primasubulura spp. Magnification x400, Scale 50 μm.
Fig 2.
Images of helminth eggs (A) Trichuris spp.-OTU-d; (B) Moniezia expansa (C) Moniezia benedini (D) Trichuris spp.-OTU-c. Magnification x400, Scale 50 μm.
Fig 3.
Images of helminth eggs (A) Spirurina spp. (B) Streptopharagus spp. (C) Unidentified Spirurid-morphotype A. (D) Unidentified Spirurid-morphotype B (E) Paramphistomum spp. (F) Fasciola hepatica. Magnification x400; Scale: 50 μm.
Table 1.
Number of helminth taxa in the wet and dry seasons recovered by coprological methods in the animals in Amboseli ecosystem (Kenya).
Table 2.
Parasite taxa identified from sympatric hosts using a combination of coprological and molecular methods.
Table 3.
Nematode taxa isolated from wild and domestic host species in the Amboseli ecosystem (Kenya), which were identified using the mtDNA and ITS gene markers.
Fig 4.
Evolutionary relationships of the isolates sequenced in this study (bold) with Strongyloides spp. sequences extracted from GenBank.
The rooted maximum likelihood tree based on mtDNA was derived from 1000 bootstrap replicates using Necator spp. as outgroup. The numbers next to branches represent bootstrap values where values <50% were collapsed. Accession numbers for GenBank sequences included in the tree are in the S1 Table. Key: “Yelbaboon_Ke_” and “S.fuelleborniKE_” refers to the different isolates of Strongyloides spp. from yellow baboons in Kenya.
Fig 5.
Evolutionary relationships of the isolates sequenced in this study (bold) with Trichostrongylid sequences selected from GenBank.
The rooted maximum likelihood tree based on ITS of the rDNA was derived from 1000 bootstrap replicates using Strongylus edentatus as the outgroup. The numbers next to branches represent bootstrap values where values <50% were collapsed. Accession numbers for GenBank sequences included in the tree are in the S2 Table. Key: CattleKe- Cattle in Kenya; GgazzKe-Grant’s gazelle in Kenya; YelBabKe–Yellow baboon in Kenya; GoatKe–Goat in Kenya.