Abstract
The review of Thompson et al. [1] is a timely assessment of the threats to Australian wildlife posed by parasites, either by moving hosts within Australia or by introducing novel organisms. However, the presented phylogenetic tree (modified from [2]), showing the relationships between trypanosomes of Australian mammals, is misleading, and raises wider questions about how to best analyse such sequence data for identification of unknown organisms (DNA barcoding) and for species discovery. Many of the sequences used to construct the tree originate from recent PCR-based surveys, which have greatly increased our knowledge of trypanosome diversity in both native and introduced Australian mammals [2–6].
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