Unraveling the disease consequences and mechanisms of modular structure in animal social networks

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 114, Issue 16, 2017, Pages 4165-4170

  Sah, Pratha ^a   Leu, Stephan T ^a   Cross, Paul C ^b   Hudson, Peter J ^c   Bansal, Shweta ^a,d  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Community structure; Infection; Modularity; Sociality; Wildlife disease

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL SOCIETY; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SIMULATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EMPIRICISM; GROUP DYNAMICS; INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL NETWORK; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EPIDEMIC; POPULATION DENSITY; THEORETICAL MODEL; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; SOCIAL NETWORKING;

EID: 85017607929     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1613616114     Document Type: Article

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