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: A.M. (Andreas) Waser (11181324), J. (Jeffrey) Knol (11181384), R. (Rob) Dekker (11181385), D.W. (David) Thieltges (11181386)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Ecology; Biological Invasions; Parasite spillover; Polydora ciliata; Wadden Sea; Historical ecology; Shell collection; Pacific; Burrows; Pacific oyster
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.4121/15049299.v1

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...