Fig. 6

Phylogenetic tree of Plasmodium spp. illustrating CDPK2 and PVP01_118800 orthologs. Tree assembled using the mitochondrial genomes of each species (see methods for details). A gene tree was inferred through the RAxML analysis using the ‘best tree’ and rendered with the tree of life webserver (iTOL) [44]. CDPK2 and PVP01_118800 orthologs were identified through blast searches using the kinase domains. Plasmodium species which have orthologs to CDPK2 are indicated by the blue circle, while species with an ortholog of PVP01_118800 are indicated by the red circle. Bootstrap support for the gene tree is indicated on each of the branches, only values above 40 are displayed