Figure 3.

Molecular phylogenetic analysis by Maximum Likelihood method with bootstrap value on the branches. The evolutionary history was inferred by using the Maximum Likelihood method and Jones-Taylor-Thornton (JTT) matrix-based model [46]. The bootstrap consensus tree inferred from 1000 replicates is taken to represent the evolutionary history of the taxa analyzed [47]. Branches corresponding to partitions reproduced in less than 50% bootstrap replicates are collapsed. Initial tree(s) for the heuristic search were obtained automatically by applying Neighbor-Join and BioNJ algorithms to a matrix of pairwise distances estimated using a JTT model, and then selecting the topology with superior log likelihood value. This analysis involved 105 amino acid sequences. All positions with less than 95% site coverage were eliminated, i.e., fewer than 5% alignment gaps, missing data and ambiguous bases were allowed at any position (partial deletion option). There were a total of 2076 positions in the final dataset. Evolutionary analyses were conducted in Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 10 MEGA X [48].