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Google Scholar Download references ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Warmest thanks are due to Mark Q. Martindale, Nancy Condron, Jenny Whilde, Devon Rollinson Ramia, Catherine Eastman, Ashley Taylor and
all the veterinary and rehabilitation staff and volunteers and research students and staff of the Sea Turtle Hospital at Whitney Laboratories. Warmest thanks are also due to our
collaborators at other sea turtle rehabilitation facilities, primarily Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, The Turtle Hospital Marathon Key, South Carolina Aquarium and Georgia Sea Turtle Center, and
at other universities helping us to drive forward our marine turtle research program. We also thank the funding agencies which have been essential in enabling us to conduct
fibropapillomatosis research: The Sea Turtle Conservancy, Florida Sea Turtle Grants Program, project number 17-033R, the Save Our Seas Foundation under project number SOSF 356, the Welsh
Government Sêr Cymru II and the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 663830-BU115. Finally warm thanks are also
due to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), including Meghan Koperski for valuable assistance with permitting. All research and rehabilitation activities of the
hospital are conducted under FWC marine turtle permits MTP-20-236 (research) and MTP-20-228 (rehabilitation), with research ethical approval from the University of Florida Institutional
Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC). AUTHOR INFORMATION AUTHORS AND AFFILIATIONS * The Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience and Sea Turtle Hospital, University of Florida, St.
Augustine, Florida, 32080, USA David J. Duffy & Brooke Burkhalter * Department of Biology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 32611, USA
David J. Duffy * Systems Biology Ireland & Precision Oncology Ireland, School of Medicine, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland David J. Duffy Authors * David J. Duffy
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