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. 2019 Aug 9;7(4):10.1128/microbiolspec.ame-0010-2019. doi: 10.1128/microbiolspec.ame-0010-2019

FIGURE 1.

FIGURE 1

Phylogeny of Plasmodium parasites based on the mitochondrial genome. The phylogenetic tree shows all the Plasmodium species parasitic to humans, including those that cause zoonotic malarias. Although not a comprehensive phylogeny, it evidences that parasites causing human malaria are not a monophyletic group.