Monkeys in the Middle: Parasite Transmission through the Social Network of a Wild Primate

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  MacIntosh, Andrew J J ^a   Jacobs, Armand ^b   Garcia, Cécile ^c   Shimizu, Keiko ^d   Mouri, Keiko ^d   Huffman, Michael A ^a   Hernandez, Alexander D ^e  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GROOMING; HAPLORHINI; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MACACA; MALE; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; PARASITE SHEDDING; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITISM; PRIMATE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; STRESS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; FECES; FEMALE; HYDROCORTISONE; JAPAN; MACACA; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PARASITES; PARASITIC DISEASES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; MACACA; MACACA FUSCATA YAKUI; PRIMATES;

EID: 84870769929     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051144     Document Type: Article

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