Metaplasia of respiratory and digestive tissues in the eastern oyster Crassostrea virginica associated with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

• Deanne S. Roopnarine ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Deanne S. Roopnarine, Peter D. Roopnarine, Laurie C. Anderson, Ji Hae Hwang, Swati Patel

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: roopnari@nova.edu

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Nova Southeastern University, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, United States of America

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• Peter D. Roopnarine ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Deanne S. Roopnarine, Peter D. Roopnarine, Laurie C. Anderson, Ji Hae Hwang, Swati Patel

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Geology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9811-1176

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• Laurie C. Anderson ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Deanne S. Roopnarine, Peter D. Roopnarine, Laurie C. Anderson, Ji Hae Hwang, Swati Patel

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, Museum of Geology, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota, United States of America

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• Ji Hae Hwang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Deanne S. Roopnarine, Peter D. Roopnarine, Laurie C. Anderson, Ji Hae Hwang, Swati Patel

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Kent State University College of Podiatric Medicine, Independence, Ohio, United States of America

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• Swati Patel

  Contributed equally to this work with: Deanne S. Roopnarine, Peter D. Roopnarine, Laurie C. Anderson, Ji Hae Hwang, Swati Patel

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Nova Southeastern University, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, United States of America

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