Epibiotic Diatoms Are Universally Present on All Sea Turtle Species

• Nathan J. Robinson ,

  * E-mail: nathan@leatherback.org

  Affiliations The Leatherback Trust, Goldring-Gund Marine Biology Station, Playa Grande, Guanacaste, Costa Rica, Department of Biology, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7384-3576

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• Roksana Majewska,

  Affiliation BioNEM Laboratory, Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University “Magna Graecia” of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy

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• Eric A. Lazo-Wasem,

  Affiliation Division of Invertebrate Zoology, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Ronel Nel,

  Affiliation Institute For Coastal and Marine Research, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa

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• Frank V. Paladino,

  Affiliations The Leatherback Trust, Goldring-Gund Marine Biology Station, Playa Grande, Guanacaste, Costa Rica, Department of Biology, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America

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• Lourdes Rojas,

  Affiliation Division of Invertebrate Zoology, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• John D. Zardus,

  Affiliation Department of Biology, The Citadel, 171 Moultrie Street, Charleston, South Carolina, 29407, United States of America

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• Theodora Pinou

  Affiliation Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, Connecticut, United States of America

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