Blood thicker than water: kinship, disease prevalence and group size drive divergent patterns of infection risk in a social mammal
The importance of social- and kin-structuring of populations for the transmission of wildlife disease is widely assumed but poorly described. Social structure can help dilute risks of transmission for group members, and is relatively easy to measure, but kin-association represents a further level of...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Proceedings: Biological Sciences. in. - The Royal Society. - 283(2016), 1835, Seite 1-8
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1. Verfasser: |
Benton, Clare H.
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Weitere Verfasser: |
Delahay, Richard J.,
Robertson, Andrew,
McDonald, Robbie A.,
Wilson, Alastair J.,
Burke, Terry A.,
Hodgson, Dave |
Format: | Online-Aufsatz
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Sprache: | English |
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2016
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Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Proceedings: Biological Sciences. in
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Schlagworte: | Biological sciences
Behavioral sciences
Health sciences |