A comparative analysis of microplastic contamination in hermit crab Clibanarius rhabdodactylus Forest, 1953, inhabiting intertidal and subtidal Coastal habitat of Gujarat state

• Jaimin Parmar ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jaimin Parmar, Krupal Patel

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶These two authors contributed equally to this work and shared first authorship.

  Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University, Patan, Gujarat, India

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• Krupal Patel ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jaimin Parmar, Krupal Patel

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶These two authors contributed equally to this work and shared first authorship.

  Affiliation Marine Biodiversity and Ecology Laboratory, Department of Zoology, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat, India

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• Vasantkumar Rabari,

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

  Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University, Patan, Gujarat, India

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• Ashish Patel ,

  * E-mail: uni.ashish@gmail.com (AP); dsahoo@iastate.edu; dipaksahoo11@gmail.com (DKS); jntrivedi26@yahoo.co.in (JNT)

  Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University, Patan, Gujarat, India

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• Dipak Kumar Sahoo ,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing, Conceptualization, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: uni.ashish@gmail.com (AP); dsahoo@iastate.edu; dipaksahoo11@gmail.com (DKS); jntrivedi26@yahoo.co.in (JNT)

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3748-3395

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• Jigneshkumar N. Trivedi

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: uni.ashish@gmail.com (AP); dsahoo@iastate.edu; dipaksahoo11@gmail.com (DKS); jntrivedi26@yahoo.co.in (JNT)

  Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University, Patan, Gujarat, India

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