[HTML][HTML] Trade-offs between sociality and gastrointestinal parasite infection in the context of a natural disaster

MA Pavez-Fox, CM Escabi-Ruiz, JDA Hart… - Animal Behaviour, 2024 - Elsevier
Highlights•Old high-status animals had lower risk of protozoa infection.•Social status did not
buffer infection risk after an acute natural disaster.•More connected individuals had lower …

Age-associated alterations in immune and inflammatory responses in captive olive baboons (Papio anubis)

MM Mulholland, BP Nehete, A DeLise, AM Achorn… - Frontiers in …, 2025 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Advanced age is a primary risk factor for many chronic diseases and conditions;
however, age-related immune dysregulation is not well understood. Animal models …

[HTML][HTML] Social ageing can protect against infectious disease in a group-living primate

ER Siracusa, MA Pavez-Fox, JE Negron-Del Valle… - bioRxiv, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The benefits of social living are well established, but sociality also comes with costs,
including infectious disease risk. This cost-benefit ratio of sociality is expected to change …