Social Organization and Parasite Risk in Mammals: Integrating Theory and Empirical Studies

By S. Altizer, Charles L. Nunn, Peter H. Thrall, J. L. Gittleman, J. Antonovics, A. Cunningham, A. Dobson, V. Ezenwa, Kate E. Jones, A. B. Pedersen and 2 more. 2003

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics

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Parasite removal increases reproductive success in a social African ground squirrel (2010, background): “Common sleeping burrows in social mammals have causally linked parasite transmission to burrow switching (Hoogland and Sherman 1976; Hausfater and Meade 1978, 1982; Hoogland 1995; Lewis 1996; Altizer et al. 2003).”
Homage to Linnaeus: How many parasites? How many hosts? (2008, background): “Although highly host-specific, such pathogens can persist in smaller host populations than the normal directly transmitted pathogens (48, 50).”
Group living and pathogen infection revisited (2016, positive): “Anti-parasite benefits of group living The pathogen-related costs of group living accumulate for one fundamental reason — contact rates between individuals are higher in social situations which facilitates pathogen transmission [3].”
Body size, diet and sociality influence the species richness of parasitic worms in anthropoid primates (2004, background): “Social interactions generate a network of contacts through which many parasites spread within populations (Anderson and May, 1979, 1991), and host behavioural contacts should have overriding importance for parasite community diversity (Morand, 2000; Altizer et al., 2003b).”
Unravelling complex associations between testosterone and parasite infection in the wild (2012, background): “Parasitism is considered to be a key factor that can influence and be influenced by host behaviour (Hamilton & Zuk 1982; Moller, Dufva & Allander 1993; Altizer et al. 2003).”
Mechanisms of disease‐induced extinction (2004, background): “…frequency of infected individuals in the population; the clearest example of frequency-dependent transmission is in sexually transmitted diseases (Thrall et al. 1993; Antonovics et al. 1995), but frequency dependence can also occur because of territorial or social behaviour (Altizer et al. 2003).”
Social network analysis of animal behaviour : a promising tool for the study of sociality (2008, background): “The spread of different diseases may depend differentially on network structure because of varied modes of transmission (e.g. STDs versus nonsexually transmitted diseases: Altizer et al. 2003).”
The influence of sex and sociality on parasite loads in an African ground squirrel (2008, background): “[Behav Ecol 19:1006–1011 (2008)] The distribution and abundance of parasites within a hostspecies can be influenced by both the sex and social organization of the host (Altizer et al. 2003).”
Thermal Stress and Coral Cover as Drivers of Coral Disease Outbreaks (2007, background): “A host density threshold is a common signature of infectious disease outbreaks of humans and other marine taxa such as viral diseases of seals [50,52,53].”
The social dynamics of southern resident killer whales and conservation implications for this endangered population (2009, background): “…opportunities) and information transmission (e.g. Whiten 2000; Rendell & Whitehead 2001), learned behaviours (Giraldeau et al. 1994) and disease (Altizer et al. 2003; Cross et al. 2004; Keeling & Eames 2005), but also shapes patterns of gene flow and opportunities for cooperative behaviour and…”
Host traits and parasite species richness in even and odd-toed hoofed mammals, Artiodactyla and Perissodactyla (2006, background): “…between hosts is considered to be one of the most important epidemiological parameters influencing parasite spread (Anderson and May 1979, 1991), and traits that increase host proximity and contact rates should positively influence parasite species richness (reviewed by Altizer et al. 2003).”
Effects of Joint Space Use and Group Membership on Contact Rates Among White-Tailed Deer (2007, background): “Researchers have proposed transmission within social groups 363 as a mechanism for frequency-dependent transmission (Altizer et al. 2003) because 364 animals within a social group make frequent contacts regardless of the density of the 365 surrounding population.”