“…), there is abundant genetic and genomic information associated with different aspects of N. caninum biology. Results have been published about genetic diversity and geographic population structure (Dorsch et al, 2020;Regidor-Cerrillo et al, 2013), genome sequence and identification of mutational hotspots between strains (Berná et al, 2021;Calarco et al, 2018), transcriptomic and proteomic studies (García-Sánchez et al, 2019;Horcajo et al, 2018Horcajo et al, , 2023, and analysis of selective sweeps (Khan et al, 2019), among others. On the other side, very little is known about genetic susceptibility of the intermediate host against N. caninum infection.…”