Table 3.

Pairwise comparison ¹ of the amino acid (aa) sequences of the 12 protein-encoding mitochondrial genes and in the nucleotide sequence of each of the two ribosomal genes

aa/rRNA	Al	As	Asc	Asg	Ans	Ba	Bp	Bs	Bt	Co	Cr	Cur	Tcan	Tcat	Tm	Tol
ATP6	83.42	84.42	50.75	48.74	78.89	84.42	84.92	82.91	83.92	77.89	79.39	58.8	81.91	80.4	80.9	81.91
COX1	93.54	92.97	92.59	92.78	91.44	93.73	92.97	93.92	93.92	92.40	92.5	85.25	84.41	83.65	86.69	90.11
COX2	91.18	91.18	81.51	84.03	92.02	91.18	91.18	91.60	91.60	91.18	92.2	77.49	89.08	89.50	97.48	97.48
COX3	90.00	96.00	77.00	79.00	91.00	88.00	90.00	90.00	90.00	91.00	89.8	69.41	81.00	90.00	90.00	96.00
CYTB	80.80	76.80	74.13	71.20	78.13	79.47	78.40	78.13	77.87	77.60	73.35	68.95	60.00	60.53	90.93	91.47
NAD1	89.00	94.00	71.00	73.00	88.00	88.00	84.00	84.00	88.00	88.00	85.86	70	84.00	86.00	84.00	94.00
NAD2	74.91	77.03	53.71	54.06	76.68	73.85	77.39	78.80	76.68	77.74	69.04	41.78	72.79	84.10	89.75	78.45
NAD3	88.29	86.49	64.86	66.67	86.49	86.49	89.19	88.29	87.39	86.49	81.08	64.54	85.59	88.29	88.29	88.29
NAD4	82.48	82.73	82.00	81.75	80.78	81.02	76.89	82.48	80.78	82.00	73.59	63.57	67.40	67.64	80.05	81.51
NAD4L	89.61	88.31	58.44	54.55	84.42	89.61	90.91	90.91	90.91	89.61	88.31	68.83	87.01	84.42	85.71	83.12
NAD5	83.00	82.00	66.00	66.00	80.00	84.00	85.00	85.00	83.00	83.00	74.19	62.62	80.00	90.00	92.00	82.00
NAD6	79.00	80.00	52.00	52.00	70.00	79.00	78.00	77.00	77.00	72.00	68.05	59.72	74.00	76.00	75.00	75.00
rrnL	84.91	84.79	54.66	60.46	71.40	78.04	78.88	78.25	77.73	69.00	69.3	59.6	72.51	70.99	72.36	78.85
rrnS	84.00	84.45	63.39	64.05	76.14	82.45	83.71	81.41	82.42	74.00	75.9	60.4	75.32	75.14	75.72	82.71

¹Percentage of similarity in the amino acid sequences inferred from the 12 protein-coding genes and in the nucleotide sequence of each of the two ribosomal genes (rrnL and rrnS) upon pairwise comparison between Parascaris univalens and selected ascaridoid nematodes, including Ascaris lumbricoides (Al), Ascaris suum (As), Ascaridia columbae (Asc), Ascaridia galli (Asg), Anisakis simplex (Ans), Baylisascaris ailuri (Ba), Baylisascaris procyonis (Bp), Baylisascaris schroederi (Bs), Baylisascaris transfuga (Bt), Contracaecum osculatum (Co), Contracaecum rudolphii B (Cr), Cucullanus robustus (Cur), Toxocara canis (Tcan), Toxocara cati (Tcat), Toxocara malaysiensis (Tmal), Toxascaris leonina (Tol).