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Figure 1 . Spatial distribution of sample collection. Each black dot represents the province of sampling. The current geographic distribution and census of beef cattle raised under extensive husbandry conditions for each province is represented by grayscale. The number of fecal samples per province is shown. The white dot indicates thatBesnoitia spp. DNA has been found.
Figure 2 . Phylogenetic relationships among Besnoitiaspp. sequences identified in this study and known Besnoitia spp. isolates, as inferred by a neighbour-joining analysis of ITS ribosomal RNA gene partial sequences, based on genetic distances calculated by the Kimura two-parameter model. Nucleotide sequences determined in this study are identified with dark green filled circles. Bootstrap values lower than 50% are not displayed. Toxoplasma gondii was used as outgroup taxa.
Table 1 . Summary of the available studies reporting investigations to elucidate possible definitive host of Besnoitia besnoiti .
Table 2 . Wild carnivore species examined, region, number of samples tested and number of samples in which DNA from Besnoitiaspp. has been detected in Spain. In bold the species and number of faeces samples in which DNA from Besnoitia spp. has been found and confirmed by sequencing.