Estimates of genetic diversity per sample and neutrality tests.

Legend: The extent of pfserca gene sequence analysed here correspond to nucleotide coordinates 87-2862 of the PFA0310c pfserca sequence of the reference clone 3D7 (Plasmodium genome database PlasmoDB; http://www.plasmodb.org/plasmo/). N: sample size. S: number of segregating sites, of which the number of singletons (ηs) is presented in parenthesis. h: number of haplotypes. Hd: haplotype diversity (i.e. expected heterozygosity based on haplotype frequency). K: average number of nucleotide differences between two sequences. π: average number of nucleotide differences between two sequences, per site. D: Tajima's (1989) values for D-test. D* and F* are Fu & Li's (1993) values for the respective neutrality tests. ns: not significant. *P<0.05. n.a.: not applicable (monomorphic).