The genome of the sparganosis tapeworm Spirometra erinaceieuropaeiisolated from the biopsy of a migrating brain lesion

Table 3 Total protein length of gene families described as expanded in other tapeworm species

Family	E. granulosus	E. multilocularis	T. solium	H. microstoma	C. sinensis	S. mansoni	S. erinaceieuropaei	Expansion
Heat shock protein, HSP70	22,013	23,205	17,547	2,884	7,460	4,100	4,441	No
Tetraspanin	8,547	9,268	8,253	6,514	2,442	3,683	3,742	No
Glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored protein, GP50	2,326	8,441	4,604	5,347	0	0	0	No
Antigen B	590	780	329	428	0	0	0	No
EG95	306	626	1,350	0	0	0	0	No
Sporozoite threonine and asparagine-rich protein (STARP)-like antigen	1,519	2,072	2,517	772	1,661	1,783	388	No
Galactosyltransferase	6,685	8,690	5,689	2,937	1,264	2,157	10,296	Yes
Mu class glutathione S transferase	1,142	1,919	2,044	2,044	437	413	1,371	Yes
Fatty acid binding protein 2	799	586	670	1116	125	231	1,016	Yes

Protein family trees containing genes belonging to the tapeworm gene expansions described by Tsai et al. [2] were extracted from the EnsemblCompara GeneTrees database. The cumulative number of codons is described here for each species. The last column notes whether this family is likely to be expanded in all tapeworms.

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