Fig. 5.

Phylogenetic tree of Metastriata based on the 16S rRNA gene. Genera and species were selected based on geographical and taxonomical relevance to this study. In each row of individual sequences, the country of origin and the GenBank accession number are shown after the species name. Sequences from this study are indicated with red fonts and bold maroon accession numbers. The evolutionary history was inferred by using the Maximum Likelihood method and the Tamura-Nei model. Sequence dataset was resampled 1000 times to generate bootstrap values. The tree is drawn to scale, with branch lengths measured in the number of substitutions per site. The analysis involved 60 nucleotide sequences, and there were a total of 454 positions in the final dataset