Rodents as intermediate hosts of cestode parasites of mammalian carnivores and birds of prey in Poland, with the first data on the life-cycle of Mesocestoides melesi

Table 2 Characteristics of the nucleotide datasets used in phylogenetic analyses

	12S rDNA	18S rDNA	cox1
Number of sequences	51	33	63
Sequence length variation (bp)	222–337	593–1133	366–388
Number of aligned positions
Total	350	1206	388
Constant	193	1010	235
Autapomorphic	28	86	9
Parsimony informative	129	110	144
Containing gaps	171	707	29
Percentage of gaps/missing data	10.35	11.42	0.93

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