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SUBMITTER: Caldwell JM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5784196 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Caldwell Jamie M JM Donahue Megan J MJ Harvell C Drew CD
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20180101 1870
Understanding how disease risk varies over time and across heterogeneous populations is critical for managing disease outbreaks, but this information is rarely known for wildlife diseases. Here, we demonstrate that variation in host and pathogen factors drive the direction, duration and intensity of a coral disease outbreak. We collected longitudinal health data for 200 coral colonies, and found that disease risk increased with host size and severity of diseased neighbours, and disease spread wa ...[more]