Does animal behavior underlie covariation between hosts' exposure to infectious agents and susceptibility to infection? Implications for disease dynamics

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 528-539

  Hawley, Dana M ^a   Etienne, Rampal S ^b   Ezenwa, Vanessa O ^c   Jolles, Anna E ^d  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^d OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; INFECTION; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VERTEBRATE; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; INFECTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; VERTEBRATES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 80053286061     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icr062     Document Type: Conference Paper

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