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SUBMITTER: Lockley EC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7596700 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lockley Emma C EC Fouda Leila L Correia Sandra M SM Taxonera Albert A Nash Liam N LN Fairweather Kirsten K Reischig Thomas T Durão Jandira J Dinis Herculano H Roque Silvana Monteiro SM Lomba João Pina JP Dos Passos Leno L Cameron Sahmorie J K SJK Stiebens Victor A VA Eizaguirre Christophe C
Scientific reports 20201029 1
Long-term monitoring of host-parasite interactions is important for understanding the consequences of infection on host fitness and population dynamics. In an eight-year survey of the loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) population nesting in Cabo Verde, we determined the spatiotemporal variation of Ozobranchus margoi, a sanguivorous leech best known as a vector for sea turtle fibropapilloma virus. We quantified O. margoi association with turtles' δ<sup>15</sup>N and δ<sup>13</sup>C stable is ...[more]