Fig. 2.

Scatter plot showing the correlations between the summary statistics indices for each erythrocyte receptor-merozoite ligand pair. The merozoite ligand Tajima's D value was plotted against its erythrocyte receptor Tajima's D value, the same was done for the Fu & Li D* and F* plots. The values used from the erythrocyte receptors with data from more than one exon were as follows: for band 3 the average of both exons 17 and 18 plotted against MSP1–19 since it is the region that primarily interacts with the receptor, BSG only exon 5 was considered since previous literature has shown altering codon 90 lowers binding (Crosnier et al., 2011) and it was plotted against Rh5, Gyp B- was an average of exons 2 and 3, similar to Gyp A for which exons 2 and 3 are considered to be involved in binding EBA175, plotted against EBL-1 regions and Gyp A exon 2 was plotted against EBA175. (A) Shows the correlation of the Tajima's D statistic for each receptor-ligand pair, (B) the correlation of the Fu & Li’s D* statistic for each receptor-ligand pair and (C) is the correlation of the Fu & Li’s F* statistic for each receptor-ligand pair. The Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient, r, is shown on the graphs.