DATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENT

The scripts and the datasets used for the statistical analysis of this project are freely available from the Open Science Network platform (URL: https://osf.io/u6w3f/?view_only=27cefb515bd345648867fc20268c2d88 ). The consensus sequence used to detect unique sites in M. festivus 18S rRNA V4-V5 gene is also available on OSN platform. Sequences from Sanger sequencing are available on Genbank NCBI with the following accession numbers: MZ736888:MZ736899[accn]).