An insight into misidentification of the small-subunit ribosomal RNA (18S rRNA) gene sequences of Theileria spp. as Theileria annulata

Table 1 List of misidentified 18S rRNA gene sequences of T. annulata recognized in the present study

Accession No.	Parasite identification in the GenBank™	Parasite identification in research articles	Reference	Parasite identification in the current study
MF287942	T. annulata	T. annulata	[14]	T. orientalis
MF287917	T. annulata	T. orientalis	[14]	T. orientalis
MF287919	T. annulata	T. annulata	[14]	T. orientalis
MF287920	T. annulata	T. annulata	[14]	T. orientalis
MF287924	T. annulata	T. orientalis	[14]	T. orientalis
MF287934	T. annulata	T. annulata	[14]	T. orientalis
MF287928	T. annulata	T. orientalis	[14]	T. orientalis
MF287937	T. annulata	T. annulata	[14]	T. orientalis
MF287939	T. annulata	T. annulata	[14]	T. orientalis
MF287949	T. annulata	T. annulata	[14]	T. orientalis
MF287950	T. annulata	T. annulata	[14]	T. orientalis
KT736499	T. annulata	Unpublished	Shahzad M, Ram H, Kumar S, Chauhan RP, Sharma AK, Garg R, Goswami TK, Tiwari AK, Banerjee PS (Unpublished)	T. orientalis
KT367869	T. annulata	New genotypes of T. annulata	[24]	T. orientalis
KT367870	T. annulata	New genotypes of T. annulata	[24]	T. orientalis
EU083799	T. annulata	Unpublished	Liu A, Yin H, Luo J (Unpublished)	T. lestoquardi^a

^aAdditional morphological, molecular and biological studies are required to confirm the species level identification

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