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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Silk MJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6849844 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ecology letters 20171220 2
Contact networks are fundamental to the transmission of infection and host sex often affects the acquisition and progression of infection. However, the epidemiological impacts of sex-related variation in animal contact networks have rarely been investigated. We test the hypothesis that sex-biases in infection are related to variation in multilayer contact networks structured by sex in a population of European badgers Meles meles naturally infected with Mycobacterium bovis. Our key results are th ...[more]