Table 2.
Rhipicephalus appendiculatus cox1 haplotypes distribution (%) and genetic diversity indices in six agro-ecological zones of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi and Rwanda
| Country | AEZ | n | h | Haplotype (frequency in %)a,b | Haplogroupc (%) | Genetic diversity indices | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | B | S (PIS) | Hd (SD) | K | π (SD) | |||||
| DRC | AEZ1 | 46 | 10 | CH1(30), CH2(28), CH5(6), CH6(2), CH7(4), CH8(2), CH11(9), CH13(11), CH16(4), CH17(2) | 85 | 15 | 17 (16) | 0.82 (0.03) | 4.4 (2.2) | 0.007 (0.002) |
| AEZ2 | 54 | 12 | CH1(18), CH2(30), CH5(28), CH7(2), CH11(2), CH12(4), CH13(4), CH18(4), CH19(4), CH20(2), CH21(2), CH22(2) | 92 | 8 | 20 (17) | 0.81 (0.03) | 3.1 (1.6) | 0.005 (0.001) | |
| AEZ3 | 46 | 7 | CH1(17), CH2(33), CH5(28), CH11(9), CH12(6), CH13(4), CH14(2) | 96 | 4 | 16 (15) | 0.79 (0.03) | 2.4 (1.3) | 0.004 (0.001) | |
| Burundi | AEZ1 | 26 | 8 | CH1(50), CH2(19), CH3(4), CH4(4), CH5(11), CH6(4), CH7(4), CH10(4) | 96 | 4 | 18 (3) | 0.72 (0.08) | 2.01 (1.2) | 0.003 (0.001) |
| AEZ3 | 17 | 5 | CH1(29), CH2(35), CH5(23), CH8(6), CH9(6) | 100 | 0 | 4 (2) | 0.77 (0.06) | 1.1 (0.9) | 0.002 (0.0003) | |
| Rwanda | AEZ2 | 20 | 8 | CH1(30), CH2(20), CH4(5), CH5(5), CH7(20), CH11(5), CH13(10), CH15(5) | 70 | 30 | 18 (13) | 0.85 (0.05) | 6.3 (3.1) | 0.011 (0.002) |
| Total | 209 | 22 | – | 90 | 10 | 27 (21) | 0.81(0.01) | 3.4 (1.7) | 0.006 (0.0006) | |
Abbreviations: AEZ agro-ecological zones, n number of sequences, h number of haplotypes, S segregation sites, PIS parsimony informative sites, Hd haplotype diversity, SD standard deviation; K mean number of pairwise nucleotide differences, π nucleotide diversity, CH1-22 names of cox1 haplotypes
aHaplotypes belonging to the haplogroup B are underlined
bBold indicates shared haplotypes by all agro-ecological zones
cA and B are haplogroup names