Very pleased to have three paper's in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology's topical collection Sociality and Disease edited by Rebeca Rosengaus, James Traniello and Theo Bakker.
The first paper is a collaboration with Nina Fefferman and examines combinations of social and demographic processes that can foster endemic disease in hosts. We synthesise theoretical and empirical work to demonstrate the importance of both social structure and social dynamics in maintaining endemic disease in animal societies. You can read the paper here. The second paper follows up on a review that Julian Evans, Neeltje Boogert and Dave Hodgson published in Oikos in 2020. We use simulation models of theoretical network structures to demonstrate that modular networks can promote the spread of information relative to the spread of infection, but only when the network is fragmented and group sizes are small. You can find more here. The final paper is another modelling study, this contributing to work led by Natalie Lemanski and Oyita Udiani to test look at the role of territoriality in influencing pathogen transmission among social insect colonies. Check out the paper here. If you are interested in the topical collection, you can find the full list of papers here.
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Matthew SilkEarly career researcher at the University of Edinburgh Archives
August 2022
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