The effects of social structure and sex-biased transmission on macroparasite infection

Parasitology

Volumn 135, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 1561-1569

  Perkins, S E ^a   Ferrari, M F ^a   Hudson, P J ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Apodemus flavicollis; Assortative mixing; Heligmosomoides polygyrus; Helminths; Macroparasite transmission; Sex biased transmission; Social networks

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APODEMUS FLAVICOLLIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTACT EXAMINATION; FEMALE; GENDER BIAS; HELIGMOSOMOIDES POLYGYRUS; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MACROPARASITE; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITOSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RODENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIMULATION; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MURINAE; NEMATODE INFECTIONS; PREVALENCE; SEASONS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS;

APODEMUS FLAVICOLLIS; HELIGMOSOMOIDES POLYGYRUS; MUS; RODENTIA; VERMES;

EID: 56249128608     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182008000449     Document Type: Conference Paper

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