Epidemiological effects of group size variation in social species

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 10, Issue 83, 2013, Pages

  Caillaud, Damien ^a,d   Craft, Meggan E ^b   Meyers, Lauren Ancel ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemic threshold; Network epidemiology; Panthera leo; Social network; Social structure; Susceptible infected removed model

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

EPIDEMIC THRESHOLD; PANTHERA; SOCIAL NETWORKS; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SUSCEP-TIBLE-INFECTED-REMOVED MODELS;

EPIDEMIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EFFECT SIZE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; LION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; THEORETICAL MODEL; WILDLIFE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL DISEASE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EPIDEMIC; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL DISEASES; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; LIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84877263463     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2013.0206     Document Type: Article

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