Fig. 1

The phylogenetic tree of different isolates of T. annulata with other Theileria species infecting domestic and wild ruminants based on nearly complete nucleotide sequences of  the nuclear 18S rRNA gene. Tamura-Nei model (TN93 + G + I) of maximum likelihood method was applied for this analysis. The taxon name of each sequence employed is depicted by its accession number followed by the place of sampling, if any, and the country of origin. The detail of accession numbers used is provided in supplementary Table 1. The color coding is done as mentioned below. Red font color with red filled circles as taxon markers- sequences that are correctly identified as T. annulata in the GenBank™ (shaded light red); blue font color with blue filled square as taxon marker- sequence deposited in the GenBank™ as T. annulata but is more closely related to T. lestoquardi (shaded light blue); pink font color with pink filled triangles as taxon markers- sequences deposited in the GenBank™ as T. annulata but are more closely related to T. orientalis (shaded light pink); Default font color without any taxon marker- rest of the sequences including outgroup