Table 1. Single nucleotide polymorphisms and summary statistics of PvMSP3α block II in different geographical regions.

Population	No. of isolates	SNPs	Singletons	Amino acid changes (Parsimony informative)	Haplotypes	θπ	Haplotype diversity	Tajima’s D	Fu & Li’s F
Sua Oi	20	28	4	12	10	0.013	0.800	0.7558	0.797
Thailand#	52	87	60	14	31	0.017	0.947	-1.3265	-3.835**
India	6	39	25	7	5	0.023	0.933	-0.4033	-0.4219
China	6	27	6	9	5	0.019	0.933	0.7700	1.0298
Myanmar	25	60	33	13	21	0.021	0.977	-0.2238	-1.5189
Sri Lanka	17	36	9	15	11	0.017	0.926	0.4825	0.4395
South Korea	33	36	14	10	13	0.016	0.816	1.1073	-0.3151
Brazil	12	29	8	9	10	0.015	0.955	0.4974	0.4652
Mexico	15	38	5	17	6	0.020	0.819	0.9332	1.1185
Peru	23	29	1	13	9	0.016	0.897	1.7677*	1.8257**
Colombia	22	35	3	15	15	0.016	0.961	0.6206	1.1887
Venezuela	26	24	0	10	7	0.015	0.818	2.4208**	2.2213**
World-wide	237	158	108	29	100	0.019	0.972	-1.5136*	-6.5208**