Opposing effects of allogrooming on disease transmission in ant societies

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1669, 2015, Pages

  Theis, Fabian J ^a,b   Ugelvig, Line V ^c   Marr, Carsten ^a   Cremer, Sylvia ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AUSTRIA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Host pathogen interactions; Sanitary behaviours; SIS model; Social immunity; Social interaction patterns

Indexed keywords

ANT; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FUNGAL DISEASE; GROOMING; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNITY; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; SANITATION;

FORMICIDAE; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; LASIUS NEGLECTUS; METARHIZIUM;

ANIMAL; ANT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GROOMING; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MARKOV CHAIN; METARHIZIUM; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOSIS; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TRANSMISSION; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; ANTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GROOMING; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; METARHIZIUM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MYCOSES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84927732321     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0108     Document Type: Article

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