Phylogeny and key features of Plasmodium species. Maximum-likelihood phylogeny of Plasmodium species based on a concatenated alignment of 289,315 amino acid residues from 879 single-copy orthologs. Branch lengths are expected substitutions per amino acid site, and values on nodes are number of bootstrap replicates (out of 100) displaying the partition induced by the node. The tree was rooted with sequences from Toxoplasma and four Piroplasma species (now called Babesia), with the full tree shown as Supplemental Figure S2. The phylogenetic tree is combined with a graphical overview of key features of all reference genomes (genome versions from May 1, 2016). Due to the fragmented nature of the Haemoproteus tartakovskyi (Bensch et al. 2016) genome, counts for its key features have not been included.
