The invasive pentastome parasite is now in the reptile pet trade. check out this paper in the Journal of Veterinary Diagonostic Investigations: doi.org/10.1177/104063…

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SLAM gained 5 new collaborators in the past 2 weeks! 1 associated with Long Leaf Alliance, 1 with Virginia Tech, and 3 with ARC. Increased surveillance in Florida and South Carolina ! Woo!

Here's the dissection video I've been promising! In this, Terry Farrell & I show several snake dissections & discuss the differences between native & invasive snake pentastomes. The updated fact sheet & webinar details (5/24 at 4 PM ET) coming soon... youtu.be/qMiEnSrapFc

Here is a map from a new paper on the spread of an invasive pentastome parasite by SLAM (snake lungworm alliance and monitoring). The counties in red on the map are new localities for the parasite. Contact me if you want a pdf of the paper (it is behind a paywall). #SLAM

Here's the pub in Southeastern Naturalist documenting the range of Ro in FL & opportunistic detection methods. doi.org/10.1656/058.02… Unfortunately, the map needs to be updated constantly. I've attached a new map I made here & will share the citations in a subsequent tweet.

POSTDOC ALERT! In disease ecology and herpetology at Stetson University in Florida tinyurl.com/bdd9h6ub 📷 of 2 of the study species (pygmy rattlesnake eating a brown anole), by John Serrao

I recently published genomic resources for Ophidiomyces ophidiicola with some great colleagues and friends -- go check it out! It's open access but if you have trouble, reach out! journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.11…