Pairwise sequence identities for intra- and inter-species comparisons at the 12S mitochondrial locus.

<p>Identities were calculated from a multiple sequence alignment of the partial mitochondrial 12S rRNA sequence. Identities are shown as box plots with whiskers representing 5–95% quantiles. Dots indicate outliers and the cross marks the means of the datasets. Intra-species comparisons are colored in black, inter-species comparisons within the genus <i>Cooperia</i> in blue and comparisons between <i>C</i>. <i>punctata</i> and <i>C</i>. <i>spatulata</i> in red. Comparisons between any <i>Cooperia</i> sequence and a representative <i>H</i>. <i>contortus</i> sequence are indicated in green. All accession numbers for included sequences are provided in <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0200390#pone.0200390.s002" target="_blank">S2 Table</a>. Datasets without at least one of the index letters (a-d) in common are significantly different (p<0.05) from each other as revealed by Kruskal-Wallis test followed by a Dunn’s post hoc test between all <i>Cooperia</i> groups.