The disease costs of sociality have largely been understood through the link between group
size and transmission. However, infectious disease spread is driven primarily by the social …

Pathogen transmission depends on host density, mobility and contact. These components
emerge from host and pathogen movements that themselves arise through interactions with …

Biodiversity loss may increase the risk of infectious disease in a phenomenon known as the
dilution effect. Circumstances that increase the likelihood of disease dilution are:(i) when …

Controlling persistent infectious disease in wildlife populations is an ongoing challenge for
wildlife managers and conservationists worldwide, and chronic diseases in particular remain …

The spread of pathogens fundamentally depends on the underlying contacts between
individuals. Modeling the dynamics of infectious disease spread through contact networks …

Bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) across North America commonly experience population-
limiting epizootics of respiratory disease. Although many cases of bighorn sheep pneumonia …

Identifying the types of contacts that result in disease transmission is important for accurately
modeling and predicting transmission dynamics and disease spread in wild populations. We …

Parasite transmission is thought to depend on both parasite exposure and host susceptibility
to infection; however, the relative contribution of these two factors to epidemics remains …

Contacts between individuals are key for the spread of infectious disease. Although
essential to understanding disease spread, contact rates are difficult to predict, based simply …

We hypothesized that bighorn sheep ewes with chronic nasal Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae
carriage are the source of infection that results in fatal lamb pneumonia. We tested this …