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Volume 20, Number 1—January 2014
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Fatal Metacestode Infection in Bornean Orangutan Caused by Unknown Versteria Species

Tony L. GoldbergComments to Author , Annette Gendron-Fitzpatrick, Kathleen M. Deering, Roberta S. Wallace, Victoria L. Clyde, Michael Lauck, Gail E. Rosen, Andrew J. Bennett, Ellis C. Greiner, and David H. O’Connor
Author affiliations: University of Wisconsin, Madison Wisconsin, USA (T.L. Goldberg, A. Gendron-Fitzpatrick, K.M. Deering, G.E. Rosen, A.J. Bennett, D.H. O’Connor); Milwaukee County Zoo, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA (A. Gendron-Fitzpatrick, K.M. Deering, R.S. Wallace, V. L. Clyde); University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA (E.C. Greiner); Wisconsin National Primate Research Center, Madison (T.L. Goldberg, D.H. O’Connor).

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Figure 2

Phylogenetic trees of the Taeniidae, including newly generated sequences derived from tissues of a fatally infected Bornean orangutan. Trees were constructed from DNA sequence alignments of 12s rRNA (A) and concatenated cox1/nad1 (B) sequences from the orangutan (Versteria sp.; bold; accession nos. KF303339–303341) and representative Echinococcus, Hydatigera, Taenia, and Versteria sequences from GenBank (see Table). The maximum likelihood method was used, with the likeliest model of molecular ev

Figure 2. . Phylogenetic trees of the Taeniidae, including newly generated sequences derived from tissues of a fatally infected Bornean orangutan. Trees were constructed from DNA sequence alignments of 12s rRNA (A) and concatenated cox1/nad1 (B) sequences from the orangutan (Versteria sp.; bold; accession nos. KF303339–303341) and representative Echinococcus, Hydatigera, Taenia, and Versteria sequences from GenBank (see Table). The maximum likelihood method was used, with the likeliest model of molecular evolution chosen for both datasets by using MEGA5.2 software (6). Models of molecular evolution and tree likelihood values are HKY+G, -lnL = 2279.42 for 12s rRNA, and GTR+G+I, -lnL = 11582.71 for cox1/nad1. Numbers next to branches indicate bootstrap values (%), estimated from 1,000 resamplings of the data (only bootstrap values ≥50% are shown). Scale bar indicates nucleotide substitutions per site.

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