Recovery of long-lived marine vertebrates can change local capture records by altering movement and site fidelity, making mortality difficult to distinguish from redistribution. We developed a behaviorally explicit framework to separate true mortality from changes in availability caused by movement and redistribution. We evaluated this problem for juvenile green turtles (Chelonia mydas) and loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) captured at the …
Biology Department CalendarPentastomids are a poorly studied group of parasitic crustaceans with growing relevance to wildlife conservation and public health. Despite their zoonotic potential and their association with declining snake populations in the southeastern United States, genomic data for this group remain limited. This study presents the first annotated reference genomes for three pentastome species: Kiricephalus coarctatus, Porocephalus crotali, and the invasive …
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