A natural disaster exacerbates and redistributes disease risk across free-ranging macaques by altering social structure
A. Motes-Rodrigo, G. F. Albery, J. Negron-Del Valle, D. Philips, Cayo Biobank Research Unit, M. Platt, L. J. Brent, C. Testard
This study shows that a hurricane increased pathogen transmission in macaques by altering social structure, doubling infection rates and reducing status-based risk differences.
bioRxiv · Jul 17, 2023 · PreprintEcology