Juvenile detachment, an early sign of departure from parental care, in the leech Orientobdelloides siamensis (Oka, 1917)

• Poramad Trivalairat ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Poramad Trivalairat, Krittiya Trivalairat, Tashfia Raquib, Watchariya Purivirojkul

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Princess Agrarajakumari College of Nursing, Chulabhorn Royal Academy, Bangkok, Thailand, Department of Zoology, Animal Systematics and Ecology Speciality Research Unit (ASESRU), Faculty of Science, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand, Department of Zoology, Laboratory for Exploring the Ectoparasites and Carnivorous Hirudineans (L.E.E.C.H.), Faculty of Science, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8849-8517

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• Krittiya Trivalairat ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Poramad Trivalairat, Krittiya Trivalairat, Tashfia Raquib, Watchariya Purivirojkul

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

  Affiliations Department of Zoology, Animal Systematics and Ecology Speciality Research Unit (ASESRU), Faculty of Science, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand, Department of Zoology, Laboratory for Exploring the Ectoparasites and Carnivorous Hirudineans (L.E.E.C.H.), Faculty of Science, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0005-0801

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• Tashfia Raquib ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Poramad Trivalairat, Krittiya Trivalairat, Tashfia Raquib, Watchariya Purivirojkul

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

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• Watchariya Purivirojkul

  Contributed equally to this work with: Poramad Trivalairat, Krittiya Trivalairat, Tashfia Raquib, Watchariya Purivirojkul

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: fsciwyp@ku.ac.th

  Affiliations Department of Zoology, Animal Systematics and Ecology Speciality Research Unit (ASESRU), Faculty of Science, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand, Department of Zoology, Laboratory for Exploring the Ectoparasites and Carnivorous Hirudineans (L.E.E.C.H.), Faculty of Science, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3170-6308

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