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Blood thicker than water: kinship, disease prevalence and group size drive divergent patterns of infection risk in a social mammal

The importance of social- and kin-structuring of populations for the transmission of wildlife disease is widely assumed but poorly described. Social structure can help dilute risks of transmission for group members, and is relatively easy to measure, but kin-association represents a further level of...

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Autores principales: Benton, Clare H., Delahay, Richard J., Robertson, Andrew, McDonald, Robbie A., Wilson, Alastair J., Burke, Terry A., Hodgson, Dave
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4971205/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27440666
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.0798

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