Table 5.

Microsatellite typing of isolates of Besnoitia species according to the number of repeat motifs in six microsatellite loci.

Besnoitia spp.	Isolate, sample	Host species	Country/Region	Micro-satellite locus						Reference
				Bt-5	Bt-6	Bt-7	Bt-9	Bt-20	Bt-21
B. tarandi
	Finland isolate	Reindeer	Finland/Oulu	11	12	8	11	11	24	(Dubey et al., 2004; Gutierrez-Exposito et al., 2016)
	Tissue samples	Reindeer	Finland/North	11	11	8	11	11	23	Madubata et al. (2012)
	Tissue samples	Caribou	Canada/Nunavut, Northwest Territories	11	11	8	11	11	23	Madubata et al. (2012)
	Bt-CA-Quebec1	Caribou	Canada/Quebec	11	12	9	11	11	23	This study
B. bennetti
	Skin	Donkey	USA, Texas	12	13	8	8	8	6	(Gutierrez-Exposito et al., 2016; Ness et al., 2012)
		Donkey	USA, Michigan	12	13	8	8	8	6	(Elsheikha et al., 2005; Madubata et al., 2012)
B. besnoiti
	Bb-Israel	Cattle	Israel/Golan Heights	10/9	12	8/9	10	8	13/12	(Frey et al., 2016; Gutierrez-Exposito et al., 2016; Madubata et al., 2012)
	Bb-Ger1	Cattle	Germany/Bavaria	10	12	8	10	8	13	(Gutierrez-Exposito et al., 2016; Schares et al., 2009)
	Bb-Italy2	Cattle	Italy/Emilia Romagna Apennines	10	12	8	10	8	15	(Frey et al., 2016; Gutierrez-Exposito et al., 2016)
	Bb-Spain1, Bb-Spain2	Cattle	Spain/Guadalajara, Huesca	10	12	8	10	8	13	(Frey et al., 2016; Gutierrez-Exposito et al., 2016)
	Bb-France	Cattle	French Pyrenees	10	12	8	10	8	13	(Frey et al., 2016; Gutierrez-Exposito et al., 2016)