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Miguel Angel Reyes-López1 \*, Fátima Yedith Camacho-Sánchez1,2, Catherine E. Hart3,4, Valeria Leal-Sepúlveda5 , Kevin Alan Zavala-Félix5 , César Paúl Ley-Quiñónez5 , A. Alonso Aguirre2 and Alan Alfredo Zavala-Norzagaray<sup>5</sup>

1 Conservation Medicine Lab., Centro de Biotecnología Genómica, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Reynosa, Tam., Mexico

2 Department of Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA

3 Grupo Tortuguero de las Californias, Baja California Sur, Mexico

4 Investigación, Capacitación y Soluciones Ambientales y Sociales AC. Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico

5 Wildlife Lab., Environmental Department, Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigación para el Desarrollo Integral Regional, Unidad Sinaloa, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Guasave, Sinaloa, Mexico

\*Address all correspondence to: mreyesl@ipn.mx; mareyesl@gmail.com

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