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Network centrality and seasonality interact to predict lice load in a social primate

Lice are socially-transmitted ectoparasites. Transmission depends upon their host’s degree of contact with conspecifics. While grooming facilitates ectoparasite transmission via body contact, it also constrains their spread through parasite removal. We investigated relations between parasite burden...

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Autores principales: Duboscq, Julie, Romano, Valeria, Sueur, Cédric, MacIntosh, Andrew J.J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4768153/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26915589
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep22095