Data presented in the paper "Invasive oysters as new hosts for native shell-boring polychaetes: using historical shell collections and recent field data to investigate parasite spillback in native mussels in the Dutch Wadden Sea"

• Main Authors: Waser, A.M. Andreas, Knol, J. Jeffrey, Dekker, R. Rob, Thieltges, D.W. David
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: 4TU.ResearchData 2021
• Subjects: Ecology; FOS Biological sciences; Biological Invasions; Parasite spillover; Polydora ciliata; Wadden Sea; Historical ecology; Shell collection; Burrows; Pacific; Pacific oyster
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.4121/15049299; https://data.4tu.nl/articles/_/15049299

Research objective: We investigated the potential spillback of the native shell-boring polychaete Polydora ciliata from invasive Pacific oysters (Crassostrea (Magallana) gigas) to native mussels (Mytilus edulis) in the Dutch Wadden Sea by means of a field survey and historical collections of M. edul...