Table 6.

Genetic diversity and polymorphism of the 16S rRNA gene sequences of Mycoplasma haemocanis/Mycoplasma haemofelis and Candidatus Mycoplasma haematoparvum detected in different canid hosts in Chile.

Mycoplasma Species	Bioregion	Host	Hd	π	K	Snn	PhiST	p-Value
Mhc/Mhf	All	All	0.477	0.0024	0.6380	0.6026	0.1663	< 0.01
		Dog	0.370	0.0019	0.5083
		Grey fox	0.505	0.0029	0.7684
		Andean fox	0.587	0.0026	0.6848
		Only dogs	0.325	0.0015	0.3949	0.2250	0.1863	< 0.05
		Only foxes	0.638	0.0029	0.8664	0.4507	0.0956	< 0.05
	Steppe	All	0.614	0.0035	1.2398	0.3445	0.0160	> 0.05
		Dog	0.524	0.0040	1.4286
		Grey fox	0.666	0.0034	1.2000
		Andean fox	1.0	0.0028	1.0000
	Mediterranean	All	0.567	0.0019	0.6304	0.5475	0.3553	< 0.01
		Dog	0.419	0.0014	0.4559
		Grey fox	0	0	0
		Andean fox	0.542	0.0019	0.6144
	TWR	All	0.462	0.0016	0.5146	0.5014	0.1461	> 0.05
		Dog	0.423	0.0014	0.4615
		Grey fox	0.500	0.0015	0.5000
		Andean fox	1.0	0.0031	1.000
CMhp*	All	All	0.909	0.0004	0.1221	0.8810	0.0083	> 0.05
		Dog	0.097	0.0004	0.1301
		Andean fox	0	0	0
		Only dogs	0.097	0.0004	0.1301	0.1701	0.0112	> 0.05

*CMhp analyses in grey foxes were not performed (only one CMhp sequence available). Bioregions with insufficient number of sequences are not shown in the table. Mhc/Mhf: Mycoplasma haemocanis/Mycoplasma haemofelis, CMhp: Candidatus Mycoplasma haematoparvum. Hd: Haplotype diversity, π: nucleotide diversity, K: nucleotide difference number.