New insights into the gut microbiome in loggerhead sea turtles Caretta caretta stranded on the Mediterranean coast

Vincenzo Arizza; Luca Vecchioni; Santo Caracappa; Giulia Sciurba; Flavia Berlinghieri; Antonino Gentile; Maria Flaminia Persichetti; Marco Arculeo; Rosa Alduina

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0220329

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New insights into the gut microbiome in loggerhead sea turtles Caretta caretta stranded on the Mediterranean coast

Vincenzo Arizza,

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Biological, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies (STEBICEF), Università degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy
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Luca Vecchioni,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biological, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies (STEBICEF), Università degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4325-9728

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Santo Caracappa,

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Sicilia, Palermo, Italy
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Giulia Sciurba,

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Biological, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies (STEBICEF), Università degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy
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Flavia Berlinghieri,

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Netherlands

Affiliation Department of Biological, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies (STEBICEF), Università degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7794-2918

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Antonino Gentile,

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Sicilia, Palermo, Italy
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Maria Flaminia Persichetti,

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Sicilia, Palermo, Italy

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0890-5192

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Marco Arculeo,

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies (STEBICEF), Università degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy
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Rosa Alduina

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: valeria.alduina@unipa.it

Affiliation Department of Biological, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies (STEBICEF), Università degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1054-6915

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New insights into the gut microbiome in loggerhead sea turtles Caretta caretta stranded on the Mediterranean coast

Vincenzo Arizza,
Luca Vecchioni,
Santo Caracappa,
Giulia Sciurba,
Flavia Berlinghieri,
Antonino Gentile,
Maria Flaminia Persichetti,
Marco Arculeo,
Rosa Alduina

Published: August 14, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0220329

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