Individuals occupying dominant and subordinate positions in social hierarchies exhibit
divergent behaviours, physiology and neural functioning. Dominant animals express higher …

Disease outbreaks are a consequence of interactions among the three components of a host–
parasite system: the infectious agent, the host and the environment. While virulence and …

Social status is a critical factor determining health outcomes in human and nonhuman social
species. In social hierarchies with reproductive skew, individuals compete to monopolize …

Although social hierarchies are recognized as dynamic systems, they are typically treated as
static entities for practical reasons. Here, we ask what we can learn from a dynamical view of …

Social interactions are a ubiquitous feature of the lives of vertebrate species. These may be
cooperative or competitive, and shape the dynamics of social systems, with profound effects …

Across group-living animals, linear dominance hierarchies lead to disparities in access to
resources, health outcomes and reproductive performance. Studies of how dominance rank …

Across vertebrates, high social status affords preferential access to resources, and is
expected to correlate positively with health and longevity. Increasing evidence, however …

In humans and other hierarchical species, social status is tightly linked to variation in health
and fitness-related traits. Experimental manipulations of social status in female rhesus …

Background Gastrointestinal nematodes are ubiquitous for both domestic and wild
ungulates and have varying consequences for health and fitness. They exist as complex …

Principles of allostasis and allostatic load have been widely applied in human research to
assess the impacts of chronic stress on physiological dysregulation. Over the last few …