Molecular phylogenetic analysis by maximum likelihood method for the 25 sequences of Pvmsp3 alpha protein from Oman and seven reference strains. The evolutionary history was inferred by using the maximum likelihood method based on the Tamura-Nei model [36]. The tree with the highest log likelihood (−2208.3432) is shown. The tree is drawn to scale, with branch lengths measured in the number of substitutions per site. The analysis involved 33 nucleotide sequences. All positions containing gaps and missing data were eliminated. There were a total of 895 positions in the final dataset. Evolutionary analyses were conducted in MEGA7 [21]. The tree was rooted on Plasmodium cynomolgi msp3a. Bootstrap test results are shown next to the branches.