Contact: Andrea Estrada
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University of California - Santa Barbara
Caption: Tidal habitats of San Quintin (Baja California, Mexico), one of the three estuaries where researchers quantified parasitic and free-living biomass, finding that parasites have far more biomass than is typically thought.
Credit: Kevin Lafferty
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