Invasion of the Body Snatchers: The Interplay of Parasite Introduction, Salinity and Temperature on Parasite Prevalence and Distribution in Native Estuarine Crabs

Blakeslee, April

Invasion of the Body Snatchers: The Interplay of Parasite Introduction, Salinity and Temperature on Parasite Prevalence and Distribution in Native Estuarine Crabs

April Blakeslee¹, Darby Pochtar², Amy Fowler², Moore Christopher¹, Lee Timothy¹, Mark Torchin³, Whitman Miller⁴, Gregory Ruiz⁵ and Carolyn Tepolt⁶, (1)East Carolina University, Biology, Greenville, United States, (2)George Mason University, Fairfax, United States, (3)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama, (4)Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, United States, (5)Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Edgewater, Edgewater, United States, (6)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Biology, Woods Hole, MA, United States