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Sick bats stay home alone: fruit bats practice social distancing when faced with an immunological challenge

Along with its many advantages, social roosting imposes a major risk of pathogen transmission. How social animals reduce this risk is poorly documented. We used lipopolysaccharide challenge to imitate bacterial infection in both a captive and a free‐living colony of an extremely social, long‐lived m...

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Autores principales: Moreno, Kelsey R., Weinberg, Maya, Harten, Lee, Salinas Ramos, Valeria B., Herrera M., L. Gerardo, Czirják, Gábor Á., Yovel, Yossi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9290741/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33876431
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nyas.14600