The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to sample the blow microbiome of small cetaceans

• Cinzia Centelleghe ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: cinzia.centelleghe@unipd.it

  Affiliation Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7577-2107

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• Lisa Carraro,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

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• Joan Gonzalvo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Tethys Research Institute, Milan, Italy

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• Massimiliano Rosso,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation CIMA Research Foundation, Savona, Italy

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• Erika Esposti,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Costa Edutainment spa c/o Acquario di Genova, Genova, Italy

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• Claudia Gili,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples, Italy

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• Marco Bonato,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

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• Davide Pedrotti,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

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• Barbara Cardazzo,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

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• Michele Povinelli,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

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• Sandro Mazzariol

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4756-1871

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