The disease costs of sociality have largely been understood through the link between group
size and transmission. However, infectious disease spread is driven primarily by the social …

Highlights•Social interaction patterns affect disease transmission in social insect
colonies.•Segregation of individuals in space and time leads to interaction heterogeneities.• …

Animal social networks are descriptions of social structure which, aside from their intrinsic
interest for understanding sociality, can have significant bearing across many fields of …

The scientific study of networks-computer, social, and biological-has received an enormous
amount of interest in recent years. However, the network approach has been applied to the …

We investigate disease spreading on eight empirical data sets of human contacts (mostly
proximity networks recording who is close to whom, at what time). We compare three levels …

The dynamics of infectious disease in a population critically involves both within-host
pathogen replication and between host pathogen transmission. While modeling efforts have …

Social interactions are required for the direct transmission of infectious diseases.
Consequently, the social network structure of populations plays a key role in shaping …

Despite the importance of host attributes for the likelihood of associated microbial
transmission, individual variation is seldom considered in studies of wildlife disease. Here …

Parasites and their social hosts form many different relationships. But what kind of selection
regimes are important? A look at the parameters that determine fitness of the two parties …

Animal populations are occasionally shocked by epidemics of contagious diseases. The
ability of social systems to withstand epidemic shocks and mitigate disruptions could shape …