Climate and season is associated with prevalence and distribution of trans-hemispheric blue crab reovirus (Callinectes sapidus reovirus 1)

This work was supported by NSF Division of Ocean Sciences−Biological Oceanography awards 1658466 (E.J.S., L.P.) and 1658396 (D.B.). M.Z. was supported by an award from the China Scholarship Council. We thank our collaborators and the many fishermen for assistance in collecting and processing samples, especially Za - chary Darnell (University of Southern Mississippi) and Marcelo Chammas (Aquatrix Consultoria e Projetos Ltda, Sergipe, BR). We are very grateful to Colleen Burge (Uni - versity of Maryland, Baltimore County Institute of Marine Environmental Technology) for reviewing the manuscript and for the thoughtful feedback from peer reviewers. We also thank Olivia Pares (University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science [UMCES] Institute of Marine Environmental Technology) for the expert assistance with map creation and Matthew Spitznagel (UMCES Institute of Marine En vironmental Technology) for his help with RT-qPCR methodology.