Figure 1.
Phylogeny of the Laverania subgenus.
This phylogeny is based on partial CytochromeB sequences and including strains isolated and characterized in (A) Ollomo et al. [19], Prugnolle et al. [22], Krief et al. [23], and Liu et al. [25], and in (B) Ollomo et al. [19], Prugnolle et al. [22], Krief et al. [23], Duval et al. [24], and Liu et al. [25]. The phylogenies were produced using a maximum likelihood approach and robustness was tested using 100 bootstraps. Names of the lineages were given following their first denomination (see Table 1) except for P. billcollinsi, which was first named by Rich et al. [21] as P. reichenowi.
Figure 2.
Distribution of the different subspecies of chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas in Africa and representation of the spread of the different Plasmodium species in these subspecies.
Table 1.
Historic overview of the molecular descriptions and of the names given to the different lineages (seven lineages) of the Laverania subgenus.
Figure 3.
Sub-tree of the P. falciparum isolates.
This sub-tree was extracted from the tree presented in Figure 1B and built using the data from Ollomo et al. [19], Prugnolle et al. [22], Krief et al. [23], Duval et al. [24], and Liu et al. [25].