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Biomonitoring Heavy Metal Pollution Using an Aquatic Apex Predator, the American Alligator, and Its Parasites by Tellez, Marisa, Merchant, Mark

“…Monitoring the bioaccumulation of chemical elements within various organismal tissues has become a useful tool to survey current or chronic levels of heavy…”
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Trace element concentrations in caudal scutes from Crocodylus moreletii and Crocodylus acutus in Belize in relation to biological variables and land use by Thirion, Felix, Tellez, Marisa, Van Damme, Raoul, Bervoets, Lieven

“…Crocodylus moreletii (Morelet’s crocodile) and Crocodylus acutus (American crocodile) are generalist, apex predators of subtropical aquatic habitats in Central…”
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Differences in distress: Variance and production of American Crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) distress calls in Belize by Boucher, Miriam, Tellez, Marisa, Anderson, James T.

“…Acoustic communication of American Crocodiles (Crocodylus acutus) is relatively understudied. Our overall aim was to determine the acoustic structure of wild…”
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Cave-dwelling crocodiles of Central Belize by Wynne, Jut, Tellez, Marisa, Hartwell, Kayla, Reneau, Stevan, Welch, Gilroy, Voyles, Kyle, Cal, Michael, Cal, Reynold, Castillo, Denoy, Champion, Jane

“…We provide the results on the first systematic effort to study cave-dwelling crocodiles in central Belize. For nearly three decades, managers at Runaway Creek…”
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Gastric nematode diversity between estuarine and inland freshwater populations of the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis, daudin 1802), and the prediction of intermediate hosts by Tellez, Marisa, Nifong, James

“…We examined the variation of stomach nematode intensity and species richness of Alligator mississippiensis from coastal estuarine and inland freshwater…”
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Estimating Total Length of Partially Submerged Crocodylians from Drone Imagery by Aubert, Clément, Le Moguédec, Gilles, Velasco, Alvaro, Combrink, Xander, Lang, Jeffrey W., Griffith, Phoebe, Pacheco-Sierra, Gualberto, Pérez, Etiam, Charruau, Pierre, Villamarín, Francisco, Roberto, Igor J., Marioni, Boris, Colbert, Joseph E., Mobaraki, Asghar, Woodward, Allan R., Somaweera, Ruchira, Tellez, Marisa, Brien, Matthew, Shirley, Matthew H.

“…Understanding the demographic structure is vital for wildlife research and conservation. For crocodylians, accurately estimating total length and demographic…”
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Population genetic structure of Morelet’s and American crocodiles in Belize: hybridization, connectivity and conservation by Wilkie, Clare J., Tellez, Marisa, Jones, Gareth, Genner, Martin J.

“…Hybridization can influence the evolutionary potential of wild species and can be especially detrimental where one species is abundant, and the other much…”
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Spatial variation of parasite infracommunities in the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) by Sung, Helen, Tellez, Marisa

“…Parasites were harvested from lungs and gastrointestinal tracts of Alligator mississippiensis from Texas. We compared our results with previous parasitism…”
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The ecological importance of crocodylians: towards evidence‐based justification for their conservation by Somaweera, Ruchira, Nifong, James, Rosenblatt, Adam, Brien, Mathew L., Combrink, Xander, Elsey, Ruth M., Grigg, Gordon, Magnusson, William E., Mazzotti, Frank J., Pearcy, Ashley, Platt, Steven G., Shirley, Matthew H., Tellez, Marisa, Ploeg, Jan, Webb, Grahame, Whitaker, Rom, Webber, Bruce L.

“…ABSTRACT Large‐bodied predators are well represented among the world's threatened and endangered species. A significant body of literature shows that in…”
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The Coccidia (Apicomplexa) of the Archosauria (Crocodylia: Eusuchia) of the World by Duszynski, Donald W, McAllister, Chris T, Tellez, Marisa

“…The order Crocodylia (suborder Eusuchia) includes 27 species of alligators, caimans, crocodiles, and gharials that are cosmopolitan in distribution, inhabiting…”
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Case report on helminth parasites of a necropsied Antillean manatee (Trichechus manatus manatus) in Belize by Lucot, Morgan, Tellez, Marisa, Viveros, Diana

“…Sirenians are parasitized by a number of nematodes and trematodes, most which appear to be host specific. Reports of parasitism in the West Indian Manatee,…”
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Biomonitoring Heavy Metal Pollution Using an Aquatic Apex Predator, the American Alligator, and Its Parasites: e0142522 by Tellez, Marisa, Merchant, Mark

“…Monitoring the bioaccumulation of chemical elements within various organismal tissues has become a useful tool to survey current or chronic levels of heavy…”
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Conservation Genetics and Genomics of Amphibians and Reptiles by Shaffer, H. Bradley, Gidiş, Müge, McCartney-Melstad, Evan, Neal, Kevin M, Oyamaguchi, Hilton M, Tellez, Marisa, Toffelmier, Erin M

“…Amphibians and reptiles as a group are often secretive, reach their greatest diversity often in remote tropical regions, and contain some of the most…”
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The curious case of the endemic freshwater crocodile Crocodylus mindorensis as incidental host of marine fish acanthocephalan by Marcaida, Arvin Jet B., Urabe, Misako, Briones, Jonathan Carlo A., Diesmos, Mae Lowe L., Tellez, Marisa, Diesmos, Arvin C.

“…We performed the first host-parasite survey of the Philippine crocodile, Crocodylus mindorensis, a critically endangered species for which ecological…”
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Alligator Parasitism- the Mysterious Frontier Unfolded: Exploration of the Ecological Interaction between an Archaic Predator (Alligator mississippiensis) and its Parasites by Tellez, Christina Marisa

“…The interaction of a symbiotic relationship between hosts and parasites requires an integration of scientific subjects to fully comprehend the host-parasite…”
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