“…These polymorphic tandem repeats were previously employed in studies of the population structures of medically important human parasites (e.g., Schistosoma haematobium, Gower et al, (2011)). However, they are still strongly underutilized in studies of parasitic platyhelminths in wildlife, as only a few papers focusing on cestodes (i.e., Luo, Nie, Zhang, Yao & Wang, 2003;Štefka, Hypša & Scholz, 2009;Umhang et al, 2018;Bazsalovicsová et al, 2020) or digeneans (i.e., Criscione, Cooper & Blouin, 2006;Louhi, Karvonen, Rellstab & Jokela, 2010;Criscione, Vilas, Paniagua & Blouin, 2011;Valdivia, Criscione, Cárdenas, Durán & Oliva, 2014;Dar, Vignoles, Rondeland & Dreyfuss, 2015;Juhásová et al, 2016;Vásquez et al, 2016;van Paridon, Colwell, Goater & Gilleard, 2017;Criscione, van Paridon, Gilleard & Goater, 2020) have so far been published. The above studies have shown that microsatellites, as molecular population markers, are more discriminative than rDNA and mtDNA.…”