Table 2. Diversity and neutrality indices of Echinococcus granulosus sensu stricto population calculated from nucleotide sequence of mitochondrial cox1 gene.

Geographical origin	n	S	K	H	Hd ± S.D	π ± S.D	D	Fu’s Fs
SA	103	22	1.334	20	0.664±0.050	0.0039 ±0.0005	-2.100*	-15.396**
EA	46	13	1.373	14	0.716±0.070	0.0040±0.0006	-1.629*	-9.286**
EU	51	20	1.739	17	0.690±0.071	0.0051±0.0007	-1.935*	-11.269**
ME	94	23	1.748	25	0.761±0.040	0.0051±0.0004	-1.816*	-20.684**
AF	19	8	2.22	10	0.918±0.036	0.0065±0.0007	-0.099	-4.311**
SAM	51	17	1.27	13	0.685±0.069	0.0037±0.0006	-2.060*	-7.917**
AUS	5	7	3.20	5	1.000±0.126	0.0093±0.0021	-0.331	-2.116
TOTAL	369	67	1.82	73	0.799±0.017	0.0053±0.0002	-2.462*	-111.06*

Statistical significance: * P < 0.05; ** P < 0.01

SA: South Asia; EA: East America; EU: Europe; ME: Middle East; AF: Africa; SAM: South America; AUS: Australia.

n: number of sequences examined; S: Number of segregating (polymorphic/variable) sites; K: Average number of pairwise nucleotide differences; H: Number of haplotypes; Hd: Haplotype diversity; π: nucleotide diversity; D: Tajima's D test statistics