Table 4. Relatedness of the clusters of ticks and pathogens (without domestic vertebrates) to vertebrate dendrograms calculated according to molecular distances or to environmental distances. The number of species of vertebrates in each cluster available for calculation is indicated (ntaxa). Positive values in the column mpd.obs.z and high quantiles (mpd.obs.p > 0.95) indicate phylogenetic evenness. Negative values in the column mpd.obs.z and low quantiles (mpd.obs.p < 0.05) indicate clustering to molecular or environmental features shared with the hosts. NA, not available (fewer than two species available).
| Molecular distances | Environmental distances | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ntaxa | mpd.obs.z | mpd.obs.p | ntaxa | mpd.obs.z | mpd.obs.p | |
| Cluster 0 | 15 | -0.53 | 0.32 | 16 | 1.80 | 0.98 |
| Cluster 1 | 33 | -1.24 | 0.09 | 37 | -4.28 | 0.01 |
| Cluster 2 | 26 | 0.30 | 0.73 | 25 | 0.05 | 0.55 |
| Cluster 3 | 3 | -0.77 | 0.17 | 3 | -1.53 | 0.08 |
| Cluster 4 | 21 | -1.96 | 0.02 | 22 | -1.20 | 0.15 |
| Cluster 5 | 54 | -3.39 | 0.01 | 62 | 3.45 | 1.00 |
| Cluster 6 | 133 | 1.46 | 0.93 | 145 | -7.16 | 0.01 |
| Cluster 9 | 85 | -4.75 | 0.01 | 79 | -3.53 | 0.01 |
| Cluster 10 | 1 | NA | NA | 0 | NA | NA |
| Cluster 11 | 11 | -2.03 | 0.01 | 0 | NA | NA |
| Cluster 12 | 0 | NA | NA | 1 | NA | NA |