Skin transcriptomics of invasive Coqui frogs: stress responses, parasite signatures, and antimicrobial peptides

• Randy Ortiz ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Randy Ortiz, Leeann C. Dabydeen

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

  * E-mail: ortizrandy23@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Biology, St. John’s University, Queens, New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0009-0007-4775-7464

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• Leeann C. Dabydeen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Randy Ortiz, Leeann C. Dabydeen

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

  Affiliation Department of Biology, St. John’s University, Queens, New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0009-0001-6502-1668

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• Carolyn Kosinski,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, St. John’s University, Queens, New York, United States of America

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• Priyanka Gera,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Languages and Literatures, St. John’s University, Queens, New York, United States of America

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• Juan D. Carvajal-Castro,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, St. John’s University, Queens, New York, United States of America

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• Victoria Akilov,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, St. John’s University, Queens, New York, United States of America

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• Hunter J. Howell,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, United States of America

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• Emily Powell,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, United States of America

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• Juan C. Santos

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, St. John’s University, Queens, New York, United States of America

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