Figure 1

Consensus tree from the Bayesian analysis of 18 18S rRNA gene sequences of Babesia , with Theileria sequences as the outgroup. The sequence determined in the present study is highlighted with an arrow, and the monoplyletic group it belongs to by a bold vertical line. The GenBank accession numbers for the retrieved sequences are indicated on the tree. The scale indicates the inferred number of substitutions. The clades as described in previous phylogenetic analyses are indicated [16]. Posterior probabilities are indicated on the nodes. Evolutionary analyses were conducted in MrBayes v3.2.2 [22],[23]. The clades I and III from [17] correspond respectively to clades V and VI from [16]. The clade of interest in the present study is framed with a dashed line.