Morphological characteristics and abundance of prokaryotes associated with gills in mangrove brachyuran crabs living along a tidal gradient

• Elisa Garuglieri ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Elisa Garuglieri, Jenny Marie Booth, Marco Fusi

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

  Affiliation Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering Division (BESE), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Red Sea Research Center, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

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• Jenny Marie Booth ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Elisa Garuglieri, Jenny Marie Booth, Marco Fusi

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering Division (BESE), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Red Sea Research Center, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

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• Marco Fusi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Elisa Garuglieri, Jenny Marie Booth, Marco Fusi

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

  * E-mail: marco.fusi@kaust.edu.sa (MF); daniele.daffonchio@kaust.edu.sa (DD)

  Affiliations Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering Division (BESE), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Red Sea Research Center, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Peterborough, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7433-2487

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• Xinyuan Yang,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering Division (BESE), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Red Sea Research Center, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

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• Ramona Marasco,

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

  Affiliation Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering Division (BESE), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Red Sea Research Center, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4776-7519

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• Tumeka Mbobo,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliations National Research Foundation-South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity Institute, Makhanda, South Africa, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Kirstenbosch Research Centre, Cape Town, South Africa, Department of Botany and Zoology, Centre for Invasion Biology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

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• Emanuela Clementi,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie “L. Spallanzani”, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy

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• Luciano Sacchi,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie “L. Spallanzani”, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy

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• Daniele Daffonchio

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: marco.fusi@kaust.edu.sa (MF); daniele.daffonchio@kaust.edu.sa (DD)

  Affiliation Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering Division (BESE), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Red Sea Research Center, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

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