Table 1 Provenance and GenBank accessions for the reference sequences used in the phylogenetic analyses

E. granulosus (s.s.)

Portugal (HF947554)

[16]

Argentina (MG672207)

Algeria (MG672288)

Greece (MG672282)

Australia (MG672263)

Mexico (MG672259)

Tunisia (MG672171)

Turkey (MG682535)

Algeria (MG672293)

Iran (MG672246)

Algeria (MG682544)

Iran (MG682539)

Spain (MG682527) Turkey (MG682536)

Algeria (MG672293)

Greece (MG672282)

Mexico (MG672259)

Mongolia (MG672254)

Finland (MG682511) India (MG682512) Albania (MG682514) Romania (MG682516) Turkey (MG682535) Italy (MG682521) Iran (MG682541) Turkey (MG682531)

[17]

Greece (KU925430) Romania (KU925431) Spain (KU925419)

[18]

Turkey (KY766888) Iran (KY766899) Morocco (EF367275) France (KY766892)

France (KY766893)

[19]

Brazil (KT382540)^a

–

Argentina (KX039948)

[20]

Palestine (KC109658)

[21]

E. equinus

Turkey (KY766905)

Turkey (KY766905)

Turkey (KY766905)

[19]

UK (AB786665)

UK (AB786665)

[22]

Germany (GQ420652)

[23]

E. ortleppi

India (KY766908)

[19]

Japan (AB235846)

[2]

E. canadensis (G6/G7)

Kenya (KX010838)

[24]

Mauritania (MH300954) Sudan (MH300948) Kenya (MH300938) Argentina (MH300934)

Lithuania (MH301020)

Ukraine (MH301022)

France (MH300997)

Sudan (MH300939) Lithuani (MH301020)

[25]

Mongolia (AB893260)

[26]

Japan (AB235847)

[2]

Peru (AB777925)

[27]

Mongolia (AB271236)^a

–

China (MG597240)^a

–

Japan (AB745463)

[22]

E. multilocularis

China (KY290787, KY290785, MF370869, MF370870)^a

–

China (KT965467)

[28]

Poland (KY205667, KY205676, KY205670)

[29]

Canada (KC549999, KC550006)

[30]

Slovakia (AB461397) Japan (AB461399, AB477009)

France (AB461396) Kazakhstan (AB461398) Mongolia (AB461402)

[31]

Canada (JF751035)

[32]

Japan (AB018440)