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Aggregations of Dactylopleustes (Amphipoda: Pleustidae) on diseased areas of the host sea-urchin, Strongylocentrotus intermedius

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Acknowledgments

We thank Masaaki Hirano, Takanori Suzuki, Naoya Ohtsuchi, and Takayuki Kanki (ICRC) for their support in our fieldwork. We also thank four anonymous reviewers for their careful reading of our manuscript and their many insightful comments.

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This study was supported by the Tohoku Ecosystem-Associated Marine Sciences project.

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  1. International Coastal Research Center (ICRC), Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, 1-19-8 Akahama, Otsuchi, Iwate, 028-1102, Japan

    Masafumi Kodama, Jun Hayakawa & Tomohiko Kawamura

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MK and JH conducted the fieldworks. MK wrote the manuscript. TK supervised this study. All the authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Kodama, M., Hayakawa, J. & Kawamura, T. Aggregations of Dactylopleustes (Amphipoda: Pleustidae) on diseased areas of the host sea-urchin, Strongylocentrotus intermedius. Mar. Biodivers. 50, 62 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-020-01100-9

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