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Volume 22, Number 4—April 2016
Dispatch

Definitive Hosts of Versteria Tapeworms (Cestoda: Taeniidae) Causing Fatal Infection in North America

Laura M. Lee, Roberta S. Wallace, Victoria L. Clyde, Annette Gendron-Fitzpatrick, Samuel D. Sibley, Margot Stuchin, Michael Lauck, David H. O’Connor, Minoru Nakao, Antti Lavikainen, Eric P. Hoberg, and Tony L. GoldbergComments to Author 
Author affiliations: University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA (L.M. Lee, A. Gendron-Fitzpatrick, S.D. Sibley, M. Lauck, D.H. O’Connor); Milwaukee County Zoo, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA (R.S. Wallace, V.L. Clyde, A. Gendron-Fitzpatrick); Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA (M. Stuchin); Wisconsin National Primate Research Center, Madison (M. Lauck, D.H. O’Connor, T.L. Goldberg); Asahikawa Medical University, Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Japan (M. Nakao); University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland (A. Lavikainen); United States National Parasite Collection, Beltsville, Maryland, USA (E.P. Hoberg)

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Figure 2

Phylogenetic tree of members of the genus Versteria (Cestoda: Taeniidae). The tree was constructed from a DNA sequence alignment of cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 genes. The maximum-likelihood method was used, with the likeliest model of molecular evolution (Hasegawa-Kishino-Yano model with invariable positions), which was chosen by using MEGA6 (6). Numbers next to branches indicate bootstrap values (%), estimated from 1,000 resamplings of the data, and the tree is rooted at the midpoint of the

Figure 2. Phylogenetic tree of members of the genus Versteria (Cestoda: Taeniidae). The tree was constructed from a DNA sequence alignment of cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 genes. The maximum-likelihood method was used, with the likeliest model of molecular evolution (Hasegawa-Kishino-Yano model with invariable positions), which was chosen by using MEGA6 (6). Numbers next to branches indicate bootstrap values (%), estimated from 1,000 resamplings of the data, and the tree is rooted at the midpoint of the longest branch. Taxon labels indicate parasite species, intermediate or definitive host, and geographic origin (GenBank accession nos. in parentheses). Bold indicates sequences from this study (from adult parasites and definitive hosts). Scale bar indicates nucleotide substitutions per site.

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