Fig. 1. Repeat family selection for the P. decorus diagnostic assay. A in A novel quantitative real-time PCR diagnostic assay for fecal and nasal swab detection of an otariid lungworm, Parafilaroides decorus

Fig. 1. Repeat family selection for the P. decorus diagnostic assay. A. Number of sequencing reads for P. decorus compared to outgroup species reads for each repeat family (1–104) on a log scale. Arrows indicate repeat families with no reads from the outgroup species. Plot was made using Tableau Software, 2019. B. Within a cluster, reads with similar sequences are closer together. Edges connect a read with its closest match (creating a pair) and the length of this edge represents the amount of overlap between the reads. The mean edge width provides context for the lengths in the cluster, so in a cluster with a larger mean edge width the edges are actually longer than edges in a cluster with a smaller mean edge width. Reads therefore may be distant because of sequence divergence, or in the case of a long repeat (more than 150 base pairs), because of a lack of overlap between reads. However, because there will likely be continuous reads covering different regions of the repeat, these longer repeats should still appear as a tight, though possibly larger, cluster. Read dots that stray from the central cluster most likely represent sequence divergence. Higher density therefore indicates lower sequence divergence.