Table 1. Analyzed genes and genetic diversity.

Locus	Gene	Size (bp)	No of LST	No of variable sites	No of singl.	No of PIS	π	Hd	G+C	No of heterozygous sites	dN/dS
03.0980	Elongation initiation factor 2 alpha subunit. Putative	678	37	84	17	67	0.029	0.86	0.56	9	0.015
04.0580	Spermidine synthase 1. Putative	711	35	81	10	71	0.028	0.85	0.61	8	0.114
10.0560	Zinc binding dehydrogenase-like protein	636	43	60	19	41	0.014	0.91	0.63	14	0.091
12.0010	Translation initiation factor alpha subunit. Putative	714	35	99	24	75	0.030	0.92	0.53	9	0.032
14.0130	Nucleoside hydrolase-like protein	642	24	53	7	46	0.019	0.88	0.61	4	0.113
31.0280	Hypothetical protein. conserved	810	61	111	26	85	0.031	0.96	0.59	23	0.286
31.2610	RNA polymerase II largest subunit	486	26	34	7	27	0.019	0.82	0.60	11	0.025
Concatenated		4677	140	522	110	412	0.025	0.89	0.59	78	0.094

LST, Leishmania Sequence Type.

No of singl., number of singleton.

PIS, Parsimony Informative Sites.

Π, average number of nucleotide differences per site between any two randomly selected sequences.

Hd, Haplotype diversity.

G+C, GC content.

dN/dS, rate of substitution at non-silent sites (dN) per rate of substitution at silent sites (dS).