Table 2. Overview of the 537 strains included in the global MLMT analysis and assignment to the three main populations inferred by STRUCTURE.
| Region | Country | L. infantum | L. donovani | STRUCTURE K = 3 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pop1-537 non-MON-1 | pop2-537 MON-1 | pop3-537 MON-1 | ||||
| Western Europe | Spain | 66 | 18 | 48 | ||
| Portugal | 60 | 4 | 56 | |||
| France | 32 | 3 | 29 | |||
| Italy | 30 | 2 | 25 | 3 | ||
| Malta | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Southeastern Europe | Greece | 39 | 36 | 3 | ||
| Cyprus | 22 | 6 | 6 | 22 | ||
| Albania | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Eastern Europe | Crimea | 1 | 1 | |||
| Transcaucasia | Armenia | 23 | 3 | 20 | ||
| Middle East | Turkey | 23 | 7 | 14 | 2 | |
| Israel/Palestine | 48 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 46 | |
| Iran | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Iraq | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1 | ||||
| North Africa | Algeria | 55 | 20 | 5 | 30 | |
| Tunisia | 36 | 15 | 1 | 20* | ||
| Morocco | 33 | 1 | 2 | 30 | ||
| Egypt | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Central Asia | Uzbekistan | 20 | 20 | |||
| Tajikistan | 2 | 2 | ||||
| East Asia | China | 29 | 1 | 21**+1 | 8 | |
| total | 525 | 12 | ||||
* including seven strains from Tunisia with shared membership in pop1-537 and pop3-537
** including 5 strains from China with shared membership in pop1-537 and pop3-537; L. donovani strains in italics, all strains included in the subgroup-analysis (176 strains) are underlined