Higher disease prevalence can induce greater sociality: A game theoretic coevolutionary model

Evolution

Volumn 59, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1859-1866

  Bonds, Matthew H ^a   Keenan, Donald C ^b   Leidner, Andrew J ^a   Rohani, Pejman ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coevolution; Coevolutionarily stable strategy; Evolution of virulence; Game theory; Sociality

Indexed keywords

COEVOLUTION; DISEASE PREVALENCE; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; GAME THEORY; VIRULENCE;

EID: 25644450372     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2005.tb01056.x     Document Type: Article

References (57)

1. Alexander, R. D. 1974. The evolution of social behavior. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst. 5:325-383.
2. Altizer, S., C. Nunn, P. Thrall, J. Gittleman, V. Ezenwa, J. Pulliam, A. Pedersen, A. Dobson, M. Poss, A. Cunningham, J. Antonovics, and K. Jones. 2003. Social organization and disease risk in mammals: integrating theory and empirical studies. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst. 35:517-547.
3. Anderson, R. M., and R. M. May. 1979. Population biology of infectious diseases. Nature 280:361-367.
4. Anderson, M., and C. G. Wicklund. 1978. Clumping versus spacing out: experiments on nest predation in fieldfare Turdud pilaris. Anim. Behav. 26:1207-1212.
5. Antonovics, J., and P. H. Thrall. 1994. The cost of resistance and the maintenance of genetic polymorphism in host-pathogen systems. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 257:105-214.
6. Arneberg, P., A. Skorping, B. Grenfell, and A. F. Read. 1998. Host densities as determinants of abundance in parasite communities. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 265:1283-1289.
7. Beauchamp, G. 2004. Reduced flocking by birds on islands with relaxed predation. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 271:1039-1042.
8. Boinski, S., L. Kauffman, A. Westoli, C. M. Stickler, S. Cross, and E. Ehmke. 2003. Are vigilance, risk from avian predators and group size consequences of habitat structure? A comparison of three species of squirrel monkey (Saimiri oerstedii, S. boliviensis, and S. sciureus). Behaviour 140:1421-1467.
9. Boots, M., and R. Knell. 2002. The evolution of risky behaviour in the presence of a sexually transmitted disease. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 269:585-589.
10. Bremmermann, H. J., and H. R. Thieme. 1989. A competitive exclusion principle of pathogen virulence. J. Math. Biol. 27:179-190.
11. Brown, C. R., and M. B. Brown. 1986. Ectoparasitism as a cost of coloniality in cliff swallows (Hirundo pyrrhonota). Ecology 67:1206-1218.
12. Bull, J. J. 1994. Perspective: virulence. Evolution 48:1423-1437.
13. Caraco, T., S. Martindale, and H. R. Pulliam. 1980. Avian flocking in the presence of a predator. Nature 285:400-401.
14. Christe, P., A. Oppliger, and H. Richner. 1994. Ectoparasite affects choice and use of roost sites in the great tit, Parus major. Anim. Behav. 47:895-898.
15. Côté, I. M., and R. Poulin. 1995. Parasitism and group size in social animals: a meta-analysis. Behav. Ecol. 6:159-165.
16. Davies, C. R., J. M. Ayres, C. Dye, and L. M. Deane. 1991. Malaria infection rate of Amazonia primates increases with body weight and group size. Funct. Ecol. 5:655-662.
17. Day, T. 2001. Parasite transmission modes and the evolution of virulence. Evolution 55:2389-2400.
18. _. 2002. The evolution of virulence in vector-borne and directly transmitted parasites. Theor. Popul. Biol. 62:199-213.
19. Dobson, A. P., and M. Meagher. 1996. The population dynamics of brucellosis in Yellowstone National Park. Ecology 77:1026-1036.
20. Edwards, J. C. 1988. The effects of Trichinella spiralis infection on social interactions in mixed groups of infected and uninfected male mice. Anim. Behav. 36:529-540.
21. Emlen, J. T. 1986. Responses of breeding cliff swallows to nidicolous parasite infestations. Condor 88:110-111.
22. Ewald, P. W. 1994. Evolution of infectious disease. Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford, U.K.
23. Ezenwa, V. O. 2003. Host social behavior and parasitic infection: a multifactorial approach. Behav. Ecol. 15:446-454.
24. Frank, S. A. 1996. Models of parasite virulence. Q. Rev. Biol. 71:37-78.
25. Freeland, W. J. 1976. Pathogens and the evolution of primate sociality. Biotropica 8:12-24.
26. _. 1979. Primate social groups as biological islands. Ecology 60:719-728.
27. Gandon, S., M. van Ballen, and V. A. A. Jansen. 2002. The evolution of parasite virulence, superinfection and host resistance. Am. Nat. 159:658-669.
28. Gillespie, D. T. 1977. Stochastic simulation of coupled chemical reactions. J. Phys. Chem. 81:2340-2361.
29. Hamilton, W. D. 1971. Geometry of the selfish herd. J. Theor. Biol. 31:295-311.
30. Hart, B. L. 1988a. Behavior of sick animals. Veterinary Clinics of North America: Food Anim. Pract. 2:383-391.
31. _. 1988b. Biological basis of the behavior of sick animals. Neurosci. Biobehav. Rev. 12:123-137.
32. _. 1990. Behavioral adaptation to pathogen and parasites: five strategies. Neurosci. Biobehav. Rev. 14:273-294.
33. Hoogland, J. L. 1979. Aggression, ectoparasitism, and other possible costs of prairie dog (Scuridae, Cynomys spp.) coloniality. Behaviour 69:1-35.
34. Hoogland, J. L., and P. W. Sherman. 1976. Advantages and disadvantages of bank swallow (Riporia riporis) coloniality. Ecol. Monogr. 46:33-58.
35. Kennedy, C. E. J., J. A. Endler, S. L. Poynton, and H. McMinn. 1987. Parasite load predicts mate choice in guppies. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 21:291-295.
36. Kokko, H., E. Ranta, G. Ruxton, and P. Lundberg. 2002. Sexually transmitted disease and the evolution of mating systems. Evolution 56:1091-1100.
37. Krebs, J. R. 1971. Territory and breeding density in the great tit, Parus major. Ecology 52:2-22.
38. Lazarus, J. 1979. The early warning function of flocking in birds: an experimental study. Anim. Behav. 27:855-865.
39. Lee, P. C. 1994. Social structure and evolution. Pp. 266-303 in P. Slater and T. Halliday, eds. Behaviour and evolution. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, U.K.
40. Lipsitch, M. 1997. Transmission rates and HIV virulence: comments. Evolution 51:319-320.
41. Lipsitch, M., and M. A. Nowak. 1995. The evolution of virulence in sexually transmitted HIV/AIDS. J. Theor. Biol. 174:427-440.
42. Loehle, C. 1995. Social barriers to pathogen transmission in wild animal populations. Ecology 76:326-335.
43. Massad, E. 1996. Transmission rates and the evolution of pathogenecity. Evolution 50:916-918.
44. Møller, A. P., R. Dufva, and K. Allander. 1993. Parasites and the evolution of host social behavior. Adv. Study Behav. 22:65-102.
45. Møller, A. P., S. Merino, C. R. Brown, and R. J. Robertson. 2001. Immune defense and host sociality: a comparative study of swallows and martins. Am. Nat. 158:136-145.
46. Moore, J. 2002. Parasites and the behavior of animals. Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution. Oxford Univ. Press, New York.
47. Pulliam, H. R. 1973. On the advantages of flocking. J. Theor. Biol. 38:419-422.
48. Pulliam, H. R., and T. Caraco. 1984. Living in groups: Is there an optimal group size? Pp. 122-147 in J. Krebs and N. Davies, eds. Behavioral ecology: an evolutionary approach. Sinauer, Sunderland, MA.
49. Pulliam, H. R., G. H. Pyke, and T. Caraco. 1977. The scanning behavior of juncos: a game-theoretic approach. J. Theor. Biol. 95:89-103.
50. Restif, O., and J. C. Koella. 2003. Shared control of epidemiological traits in a coevolutionary model of host-parasite interactions. Am. Nat. 161:827-836.
51. Restif, O., M. E. Hochberg, and J. C. Koella. 2001. Virulence and age at reproduction: new insights into host-parasite coevolution. J. Evol. Biol. 14:967-979.
52. Sheldon, B. C. 1993. Sexually transmitted disease in birds: ocurrence and evolutionary significance. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 339:491-497.
53. Szekely, T., P. D. Sozou, and A. I. Houston. 1991. Flocking behaviour of passerines: a dynamic model for the non-reproductive season. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 28:203-213.
54. Thrall, P. H., and J. Antonovics. 1997. Polymorphism in sexual versus non-sexual disease transmission. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 264:581-587.
55. van Baalen, M. 1998. Coevolution of recovery ability and virulence. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 265:317-325.
56. Wearing, H. J., P. Rohani, T. C. Cameron, and S. M. Sait. 2004. The dynamical consequences of developmental variability and demographic stochasticity for host-parasitoid interactions. Am. Nat. 164:543-558.
57. Whitfield, D. P. 2003. Redshank, Tringa totanus, flocking behaviour, distance from cover and vulnerability to sparrowhawk, Accipiter nisus, predation. J. Avian Biol. 34:163-169.