Costs and benefits of group living with disease: A case study of pneumonia in bighorn lambs (Ovis canadensis)

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1797, 2014, Pages

  Manlove, Kezia R ^a   Frances Cassirer, E ^c   Cross, Paul C ^d   Plowright, Raina K ^a,e   Hudson, Peter J ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c IDAHO DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME   (United States)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^e MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bighorn sheep; Epidemic size; Social contact network; Social immunity; Transmission process; Variance decomposition

Indexed keywords

OVIS ARIES; OVIS CANADENSIS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BIGHORN SHEEP; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MORTALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PNEUMONIA; POPULATION DENSITY; SEASON; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TRANSMISSION; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; PNEUMONIA; POPULATION DENSITY; SEASONS; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; SHEEP, BIGHORN; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84908690004     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.2331     Document Type: Article

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