First molecular report of Moniezia expansa in small ruminants of Pakistan with epidemiological insight

• Hira Muqaddas ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hira Muqaddas, Naunain Mehmood

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, The Women University Multan, Multan, Pakistan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8255-1011

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• Naunain Mehmood ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hira Muqaddas, Naunain Mehmood

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Sargodha, Sargodha, Pakistan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7852-9113

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• Maher Nigar,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, The Women University Multan, Multan, Pakistan

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• Farhana Yousaf,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, The Women University Multan, Multan, Pakistan

  https://orcid.org/0009-0006-2689-7452

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• Kainat Farooq Khokhar,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, The Women University Multan, Multan, Pakistan

  https://orcid.org/0009-0006-6968-3358

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• Saba Kousar,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, The Women University Multan, Multan, Pakistan

  https://orcid.org/0009-0002-6132-0297

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• Mahnoor Aslam,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, The Women University Multan, Multan, Pakistan

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• Zafar Iqbal Khan,

  Roles Validation

  Affiliation Department of Botany, University of Sargodha, Sargodha, Pakistan

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• Ioannis A. Giantsis,

  Roles Software

  Affiliation Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Animal Science, Forestry and Natural Environment, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

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• Ayman A. Swelum ,

  Roles Software

  * E-mail: aswelum@ksu.edu.sa (AAS); furhan.iqbal@bzu.edu.pk (FI)

  Affiliation Department of Animal Production, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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• Furhan Iqbal

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: aswelum@ksu.edu.sa (AAS); furhan.iqbal@bzu.edu.pk (FI)

  Affiliation Institute of Zoology, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4996-0152

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