Infectious disease transmission and contact networks in wildlife and livestock

ME Craft - … Transactions of the Royal Society B …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The use of social and contact networks to answer basic and applied questions about
infectious disease transmission in wildlife and livestock is receiving increased attention …

Wildlife diseases: from individuals to ecosystems

DM Tompkins, AM Dunn, MJ Smith… - Journal of Animal …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
We review our ecological understanding of wildlife infectious diseases from the individual
host to the ecosystem scale, highlighting where conceptual thinking lacks verification …

Infection-induced behavioural changes reduce connectivity and the potential for disease spread in wild mice contact networks

PC Lopes, P Block, B König - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Infection may modify the behaviour of the host and of its conspecifics in a group, potentially
altering social connectivity. Because many infectious diseases are transmitted through …

Contact networks in a wild Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) population: using social network analysis to reveal seasonal variability in social behaviour and its …

RK Hamede, J Bashford, H McCallum… - Ecology letters, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The structure of the contact network between individuals has a profound effect on the
transmission of infectious disease. Using a novel technology–proximity sensing radio collars …

Going through the motions: incorporating movement analyses into disease research

ER Dougherty, DP Seidel, CJ Carlson… - Ecology …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Though epidemiology dates back to the 1700s, most mathematical representations of
epidemics still use transmission rates averaged at the population scale, especially for …

Using contact networks to explore mechanisms of parasite transmission in wildlife

LA White, JD Forester, ME Craft - Biological Reviews, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT A hallmark assumption of traditional approaches to disease modelling is that
individuals within a given population mix uniformly and at random. However, this …

Effect of gyrodactylid ectoparasites on host behaviour and social network structure in guppies Poecilia reticulata

DP Croft, M Edenbrow, SK Darden… - Behavioral Ecology and …, 2011 - Springer
Understanding how individuals modify their social interactions in response to infectious
disease is of central importance for our comprehension of how disease dynamics operate in …

Social network analysis of wild chimpanzees provides insights for predicting infectious disease risk

J Rushmore, D Caillaud, L Matamba… - Journal of Animal …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Heterogeneity in host association patterns can alter pathogen transmission and strategies
for control. Great apes are highly social and endangered animals that have experienced …

[HTML][HTML] Networks and the ecology of parasite transmission: a framework for wildlife parasitology

SS Godfrey - International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and …, 2013 - Elsevier
Social network analysis has recently emerged as a popular tool for understanding disease
transmission in host populations. Although social networks have most extensively been …

Disease transmission in territorial populations: the small-world network of Serengeti lions

ME Craft, E Volz, C Packer… - Journal of the Royal …, 2011 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Territoriality in animal populations creates spatial structure that is thought to naturally buffer
disease invasion. Often, however, territorial populations also include highly mobile, non …