Fig. 1

Scheme of the systematic process to automatically retrieve NCBI Nucleotide and GBIF datasets, and the key variables used in this study analyses. A list with zoonotic microparasite names combined with ‘Brazil’ was used in the automated process to retrieve zoonotic microparasite data, using the ‘rentrez’ and ‘spocc’ R packages. Linkable terms between NCBI Nucleotide and GBIF datasets are highlighted in bold.