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SUBMITTER: Bordes F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2391225 | biostudies-other | 2007 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Bordes Frédéric F Blumstein Daniel T DT Morand Serge S
Biology letters 20071201 6
The risk of parasitism is considered to be a general cost of sociality and individuals living in larger groups are typically considered to be more likely to be infected with parasites. However, contradictory results have been reported for the relationship between group size and infection by directly transmitted parasites. We used independent contrasts to examine the relationship between an index of sociality in rodents and the diversity of their macroparasites (helminths and arthropods such as f ...[more]