Feeder use predicts both acquisition and transmission of a contagious pathogen in a north american songbird

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 282, Issue 1815, 2015, Pages

  Adelman, James S ^a,b   Moyers, Sahnzi C ^a   Farine, Damien R ^c,d,e   Hawley, Dana M ^a  

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

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Behavioural heterogeneity; Disease transmission; House finch (Haemorhous mexicanus); Mycoplasma gallisepticum; Super receiver; Super spreader

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FIELD METHOD; HETEROGENEITY; PASSERINE; PATHOGEN;

AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CARPODACUS MEXICANUS; MYCOPLASMA GALLISEPTICUM; PASSERI; TIMEA;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL; BIRD DISEASES; CONJUNCTIVITIS, BACTERIAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FINCH; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOPLASMA GALLISEPTICUM; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TRANSMISSION; VETERINARY;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; CONJUNCTIVITIS, BACTERIAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FINCHES; MYCOPLASMA GALLISEPTICUM; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84942010273     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.1429     Document Type: Article

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