To do so we used the cytochrome b sequence data of malaria parasites isolated from ungulates from [29] and [34] (GenBank accession numbers: LC090214, LC090215, KT367830, KT367841 and KT367842) in addition to cytochrome b data from P. odocoilei and all major haemosporidian lineages included in this study to estimate a cytochrome b gene tree using RAxML with the aforementioned input parameters and partitioning by codon position. The gene discussed is MT-CYB; the disease is malaria.