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Social living mitigates the costs of a chronic illness in a cooperative carnivore

Infection risk is assumed to increase with social group size, and thus be a cost of group living. We assess infection risk and costs with respect to group size using data from an epidemic of sarcoptic mange (Sarcoptes scabiei) among grey wolves (Canis lupus). We demonstrate that group size does not...

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Pubblicato in:Ecol Lett
Autori principali: Almberg, E S, Cross, P C, Dobson, A P, Smith, D W, Metz, M C, Stahler, D R, Hudson, P J, Festa-Bianchet, Marco
Natura: Artigo
Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 2015
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Accesso online:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4676290/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25983011
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.12444
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