Species identification and phylogenetic analysis of Leishmania isolated from patients, vectors and hares in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region, The People’s Republic of China

• Yun-Fu Chen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yun-Fu Chen, Li-Fu Liao

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation MOE Key Laboratory of Gene Function and Regulation, State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, The People’s Republic of China

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• Li-Fu Liao ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yun-Fu Chen, Li-Fu Liao

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Laboratory Animal Research, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Urumqi, The People’s Republic of China

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• Na Wu,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation MOE Key Laboratory of Gene Function and Regulation, State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, The People’s Republic of China

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• Jiang-Mei Gao,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliations MOE Key Laboratory of Gene Function and Regulation, State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, The People’s Republic of China, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Animal Conservation and Resource Utilization, Institute of zoology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, The People’s Republic of China

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• Peng Zhang,

  Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation MOE Key Laboratory of Gene Function and Regulation, State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, The People’s Republic of China

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• Yan-Zi Wen,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation MOE Key Laboratory of Gene Function and Regulation, State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, The People’s Republic of China

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• Geoff Hide,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ecosystems and Environment Research Centre and Biomedical Research Centre, School of Science, Engineering and Environment, University of Salford, Salford, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3608-0175

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• De-Hua Lai ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: laidehua@mail.sysu.edu.cn (D-HL); lsslzr@mail.sysu.edu.cn (Z-RL)

  Affiliation MOE Key Laboratory of Gene Function and Regulation, State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, The People’s Republic of China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4709-1507

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• Zhao-Rong Lun

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: laidehua@mail.sysu.edu.cn (D-HL); lsslzr@mail.sysu.edu.cn (Z-RL)

  Affiliations MOE Key Laboratory of Gene Function and Regulation, State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, The People’s Republic of China, Ecosystems and Environment Research Centre and Biomedical Research Centre, School of Science, Engineering and Environment, University of Salford, Salford, United Kingdom

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