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Early‐life adversity predicts performance and fitness in a wild social carnivore by Gicquel, Morgane, East, Marion L., Hofer, Heribert, Benhaiem, Sarah

“…Studies on humans indicate that encountering multiple sources of adversity in childhood increases the risk of poor long‐term health and premature death. Far…”
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The Effect of Reduced Water Availability in the Great Ruaha River on the Vulnerable Common Hippopotamus in the Ruaha National Park, Tanzania by Stommel, Claudia, Hofer, Heribert, East, Marion L

“…In semi-arid environments, 'permanent' rivers are essential sources of surface water for wildlife during 'dry' seasons when rainfall is limited or absent,…”
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A Potentially Fatal Mix of Herpes in Zoos by Greenwood, Alex D., Tsangaras, Kyriakos, Ho, Simon Y.W., Szentiks, Claudia A., Nikolin, Veljko M., Ma, Guanggang, Damiani, Armando, East, Marion L., Lawrenz, Arne, Hofer, Heribert, Osterrieder, Nikolaus

“…Pathogens often have a limited host range, but some can opportunistically jump to new species. Anthropogenic activities that mix reservoir species with novel,…”
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Divergent Sapovirus Strains and Infection Prevalence in Wild Carnivores in the Serengeti Ecosystem: A Long-Term Study by Olarte-Castillo, Ximena A, Hofer, Heribert, Goller, Katja V, Martella, Vito, Moehlman, Patricia D, East, Marion L

“…The genus Sapovirus, in the family Caliciviridae, includes enteric viruses of humans and domestic animals. Information on sapovirus infection of wildlife is…”
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Does lactation lead to resource allocation trade-offs in the spotted hyaena? by East, Marion L., Otto, Ellen, Helms, Janine, Thierer, Dagmar, Cable, Joanne, Hofer, Heribert

“…Life history theory predicts that when food intake and body reserves are insufficient to maintain all life processes, resource allocation trade-offs should…”
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Social status mediates the fitness costs of infection with canine distemper virus in Serengeti spotted hyenas by Marescot, Lucile, Benhaiem, Sarah, Gimenez, Olivier, Hofer, Heribert, Lebreton, Jean-Dominique, Olarte-Castillo, Ximena A., Kramer-Schadt, Stephanie, East, Marion L.

“…The extent to which the fitness costs of infection are mediated by key life‐history traits such as age or social status is still unclear. Within populations,…”
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Antagonistic pleiotropy and fitness trade-offs reveal specialist and generalist traits in strains of canine distemper virus by Nikolin, Veljko M, Osterrieder, Klaus, von Messling, Veronika, Hofer, Heribert, Anderson, Danielle, Dubovi, Edward, Brunner, Edgar, East, Marion L

“…Theoretically, homogeneous environments favor the evolution of specialists whereas heterogeneous environments favor generalists. Canine distemper is a…”
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Canine distemper virus in the Serengeti ecosystem: molecular adaptation to different carnivore species by Nikolin, Veljko M., Olarte‐Castillo, Ximena A., Osterrieder, Nikolaus, Hofer, Heribert, Dubovi, Edward, Mazzoni, Camila J., Brunner, Edgar, Goller, Katja V., Fyumagwa, Robert D., Moehlman, Patricia D., Thierer, Dagmar, East, Marion L.

“…Was the 1993/1994 fatal canine distemper virus (CDV) epidemic in lions and spotted hyaenas in the Serengeti ecosystem caused by the recent spillover of a…”
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‘Keeping the kids at home’ can limit the persistence of contagious pathogens in social animals by Marescot, Lucile, Franz, Mathias, Benhaiem, Sarah, Hofer, Heribert, Scherer, Cédric, East, Marion L., Kramer‐Schadt, Stephanie

“…Social networks are considered to be ‘highly modular’ when individuals within one module are more connected to each other than they are to individuals in other…”
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Climate change does not decouple interactions between a central‐place‐foraging predator and its migratory prey by Gicquel, Morgane, East, Marion L., Hofer, Heribert, Cubaynes, Sarah, Benhaiem, Sarah

“…Little is known about potential cascading effects of climate change on the ability of predators to exploit mobile aggregations of prey with a spatiotemporal…”
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The virus–host interface: Molecular interactions of Alphacoronavirus‐1 variants from wild and domestic hosts with mammalian aminopeptidase N by Olarte‐Castillo, Ximena A., Remédios, Joana F., Heeger, Felix, Hofer, Heribert, Karl, Stephan, Greenwood, Alex D., East, Marion L.

“…The Alphacoronavirus‐1 species include viruses that infect numerous mammalian species. To better understand the wide host range of these viruses, better…”
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Effects of life history stage and climatic conditions on fecal egg counts in plains zebras (Equus quagga) in the Serengeti National Park by Seeber, Peter A., Kuzmina, Tetiana A., Greenwood, Alex D., East, Marion L.

“…In wildlife, endoparasite burden can be affected by host life history stage, environmental conditions, host abundance, and parasite co-infections. We tested…”
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The Intestinal Eukaryotic and Bacterial Biome of Spotted Hyenas: The Impact of Social Status and Age on Diversity and Composition by Heitlinger, Emanuel, Ferreira, Susana C M, Thierer, Dagmar, Hofer, Heribert, East, Marion L

“…In mammals, two factors likely to affect the diversity and composition of intestinal bacteria (bacterial microbiome) and eukaryotes (eukaryome) are social…”
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Susceptibility of carnivore hosts to strains of canine distemper virus from distinct genetic lineages by Nikolin, Veljko M., Wibbelt, Gudrun, Michler, Frank-Uwe F., Wolf, Peter, East, Marion L.

“…Using the complete haemagglutinin (HA) gene and partial phosphoprotein (P) gene we investigated the genotype of canine distemper virus (CDV) strains recovered…”
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Seasonal host and ecological drivers may promote restricted water as a viral vector by Dayaram, Anisha, Seeber, Peter, Courtiol, Alexandre, Soilemetzidou, Sanatana, Tsangaras, Kyriakos, Franz, Mathias, McEwen, Gayle K., Azab, Walid, Kaczensky, Petra, Melzheimer, Jörg, East, Marion L., Ganbaatar, Oyunsaikhan, Walzer, Christian, Osterrieder, Nikolaus, Greenwood, Alex D.

“…In climates with seasonally limited precipitation, terrestrial animals congregate at high densities at scarce water sources. We hypothesize that viruses can…”
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Physiological costs of infection: herpesvirus replication is linked to blood oxidative stress in equids by Costantini, David, Seeber, Peter A., Soilemetzidou, Sanatana-Eirini, Azab, Walid, Bohner, Julia, Buuveibaatar, Bayarbaatar, Czirják, Gábor Á., East, Marion L., Greunz, Eva Maria, Kaczensky, Petra, Lamglait, Benjamin, Melzheimer, Jörg, Uiseb, Kenneth, Ortega, Alix, Osterrieder, Nikolaus, Sandgreen, Ditte-Mari, Simon, Marie, Walzer, Chris, Greenwood, Alex D.

“…Viruses may have a dramatic impact on the health of their animal hosts. The patho-physiological mechanisms underlying viral infections in animals are, however,…”
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Measuring Faecal Epi-Androsterone as an Indicator of Gonadal Activity in Spotted Hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) by Pribbenow, Susanne, East, Marion L, Ganswindt, Andre, Tordiffe, Adrian S W, Hofer, Heribert, Dehnhard, Martin

“…Enzyme immunoassays (EIA) that measure faecal testosterone metabolites (fTM) are useful tools to monitor gonadal activity. The aim of this study was to…”
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Molecular characterization of canine kobuvirus in wild carnivores and the domestic dog in Africa by Olarte-Castillo, Ximena A, Heeger, Felix, Mazzoni, Camila J, Greenwood, Alex D, Fyumagwa, Robert, Moehlman, Patricia D, Hofer, Heribert, East, Marion L

“…Abstract Knowledge of Kobuvirus (Family Picornaviridae ) infection in carnivores is limited and has not been described in domestic or wild carnivores in…”
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Correction: Measuring Faecal Epi-Androsterone as an Indicator of Gonadal Activity in Spotted Hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) by Pribbenow, Susanne, East, Marion L, Ganswindt, Andre, Tordiffe, Adrian S W, Hofer, Heribert, Dehnhard, Martin

“…[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0128706.]…”
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Siblicide in Serengeti spotted hyenas: a long-term study of maternal input and cub survival by Hofer, Heribert, East, Marion L

“…In the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania, large fluctuations of prey abundance alters the frequency at which spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) cubs are nursed…”
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