Heterozygosity and homozygosity among a total of 560,735 polymorphic sites identified by analysing the genomes of 18 L. tropica isolates.

The number of heterozygous (He) and homozygous (Ho) positions were calculated using as reference the isolate L590. *: Isolates sequenced in this study; a: Genome generated by Bussotti et al (2018) [19]; b: Genomes generated by Iantorno et al (2017) [18]. MLMT-based populations are added next to isolates’ names as follows: A/G for Africa/Galilee, A/I for Asia/India and I/P for Israel/Palestine.