Unveiling the egg microbiota of the loggerhead sea turtle Caretta caretta in nesting beaches of the Mediterranean Sea

• Luca Vecchioni,

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

  Affiliation Department of Biological, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies (STEBICEF), University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

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• Antonino Pace,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Department of Marine Animal Conservation and Public Engagement, Marine Turtle Research Group, Portici (NA), Italy

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• Arianna Sucato,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Biological, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies (STEBICEF), University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

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• Flavia Berlinghieri,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Biological, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies (STEBICEF), University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy, Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands, Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

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

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• Irene Cambera,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Pelagie Islands Marine Protected Area, Municipality of Lampedusa and Linosa, Agrigento, Italy

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• Giulia Visconti,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Pelagie Islands Marine Protected Area, Municipality of Lampedusa and Linosa, Agrigento, Italy

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• Sandra Hochscheid,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Department of Marine Animal Conservation and Public Engagement, Marine Turtle Research Group, Portici (NA), Italy

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• Marco Arculeo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies (STEBICEF), University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

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• Rosa Alduina

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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

  Affiliation Department of Biological, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies (STEBICEF), University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

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

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