Deep amplicon sequencing highlights low intra-host genetic variability of Echinococcus multilocularis and high prevalence of the European-type haplotypes in coyotes and red foxes in Alberta, Canada

• Maria A. Santa ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: maria.santa@ucalgary.ca

  Affiliation Biological Sciences Department, Faculty of Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2512-1573

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• Andrew M. Rezansoff,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software

  Affiliation Department of Comparative Biology and Experimental Medicine, Host Parasite Interactions (HPI) program, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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• Rebecca Chen,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software

  Affiliation Department of Comparative Biology and Experimental Medicine, Host Parasite Interactions (HPI) program, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6057-9569

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• John S. Gilleard,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Comparative Biology and Experimental Medicine, Host Parasite Interactions (HPI) program, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6787-4699

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• Marco Musiani,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biological Sciences Department, Faculty of Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6097-5841

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• Kathreen E. Ruckstuhl,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biological Sciences Department, Faculty of Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2949-242X

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• Alessandro Massolo

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Ecosystem and Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Ethology Unit, Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, UMR CNRS 6249 Chrono-environnement, Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Besançon, France

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