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To address this question, we combined empirical and theoretical approaches.\n                        <\/jats:p>\n                      <\/jats:list-item>\n                      <jats:list-item>\n                        <jats:p>First, we used Generalized Additive Models (GAMs) to examine occurrence trends of the three epibiotic species over the period 1980\u20132023 for both striped dolphins and other sympatric cetacean species that did not suffer DMV outbreaks.<\/jats:p>\n                      <\/jats:list-item>\n                      <jats:list-item>\n                        <jats:p>Second, we developed a two\u2010step theoretical modeling approach to investigate the epidemiology of these DMV outbreaks (SIR model) and to link dolphin population abundance shifts with the epibiont trends observed empirically (mechanistic model). The SIR model provided coarse estimates of the impact of DMV on the striped dolphin population under two scenarios with varying virus\u2010induced mortality and duration of the infectious period. These estimates were then used to simulate the effect of dolphin population shifts on its epibionts through mechanistic models.<\/jats:p>\n                      <\/jats:list-item>\n                      <jats:list-item>\n                        <jats:p>\n                          Models indicated that DMV\u2010induced shifts in striped dolphin population dynamics have cascading effects on the population abundance of\n                          <jats:italic>X.\u2009globicipitis<\/jats:italic>\n                          and\n                          <jats:italic>S.\u2009aequus<\/jats:italic>\n                          , whereas the population of the less host\u2010specific\n                          <jats:italic>P.\u2009balaenoptera<\/jats:italic>\n                          was unaffected. 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