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Host-specificity of haematozoon parasites indicated by the proportion of parasite lineages which derived from the same host species or the same host family at two levels of parasite relatedness (branch tips and first-step nodes).
| Lineages at branch tips |
Lineages joined by 1st-step nodes |
|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parasite genus | Same host species (%) | Same host family (%) | n | Same host species (%) | Same host family (%) | n |
| Haemoproteus | 60 | 70 | 20 | 43 | 86 | 7 |
| Plasmodium | 30 | 61 | 23 | 22 | 44 | 9 |
