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Social living mitigates the costs of a chronic illness in a cooperative carnivore by Almberg, E. S, Cross, P. C, Dobson, A. P, Smith, D. W, Metz, M. C, Stahler, D. R, Hudson, P. J, Festa‐Bianchet, Marco

“…Infection risk is assumed to increase with social group size, and thus be a cost of group living. We assess infection risk and costs with respect to group size…”
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Negative Effects of Changing Temperature on Amphibian Immunity under Field Conditions by Raffel, T. R., Rohr, J. R., Kiesecker, J. M., Hudson, P. J.

“…1. Recent evidence of the important role of emerging diseases in amphibian population declines makes it increasingly important to understand how environmental…”
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Large Shifts in Pathogen Virulence Relate to Host Population Structure by Boots, M., Hudson, P. J., Sasaki, A.

“…Theory on the evolution of virulence generally predicts selection for an optimal level of virulence determined by trade-offs with transmission and/or recovery…”
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Disease dynamics during wildlife translocations: disruptions to the host population and potential consequences for transmission in desert tortoise contact networks by Aiello, C. M, Nussear, K. E, Walde, A. D, Esque, T. C, Emblidge, P. G, Sah, P, Bansal, S, Hudson, P. J

“…Wildlife managers consider animal translocation a means of increasing the viability of a local population. However, augmentation may disrupt existing resident…”
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Parasite co-infection and interaction as drivers of host heterogeneity by Cattadori, I.M., Boag, B., Hudson, P.J.

“…We examined the hypothesis that the interaction between concomitant infecting parasites modifies host susceptibility, parasite intensity and the pattern of…”
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Structure and Function of South-east Australian Estuaries by Roy, P.S, Williams, R.J, Jones, A.R, Yassini, I, Gibbs, P.J, Coates, B, West, R.J, Scanes, P.R, Hudson, J.P, Nichol, S

“…An attempt is made to synthesize the geological properties, water quality attributes and aspects of the ecology of south-east Australian estuaries so as to…”
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Identifying Age Cohorts Responsible for Peste Des Petits Ruminants Virus Transmission among Sheep, Goats, and Cattle in Northern Tanzania by Herzog, C M, de Glanville, W A, Willett, B J, Cattadori, I M, Kapur, V, Hudson, P J, Buza, J, Swai, E S, Cleaveland, S, Bjørnstad, O N

“…Peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV) causes a contagious disease of high morbidity and mortality in global sheep and goat populations. To better control…”
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Structural Evidence for Evolution of Shark Ig New Antigen Receptor Variable Domain Antibodies from a Cell-Surface Receptor by Streltsov, V. A., Varghese, J. N., Carmichael, J. A., Irving, R. A., Hudson, P. J., Nuttall, S. D., Springer, Timothy A.

“…The Ig new antigen receptors (IgNARs) are single-domain antibodies found in the serum of sharks. Here, we report 2.2- and 2.8-Å structures of the type 2 IgNAR…”
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The effects of social structure and sex-biased transmission on macroparasite infection by Perkins, S E, Ferrari, M F, Hudson, P J

“…Mathematical models of disease dynamics tend to assume that individuals within a population mix at random and so transmission is random, and yet, in reality…”
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The effect of single and concomitant pathogen infections on condition and fecundity of the wild rabbit ( Oryctolagus cuniculus) by Lello, J., Boag, B., Hudson, P.J.

“…We assessed the effect of two pathogens (myxoma virus and Eimeria stiedae) and five macroparasites (gastrointestinal helminth species) of the wild rabbit (…”
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Heligmosomoides polygyrus reduces infestation of Ixodes ricinus in free-living yellow-necked mice, Apodemus flavicollis by Ferrari, N, Cattadori, I M, Rizzoli, A, Hudson, P J

“…Free-living animals are usually inhabited by a community of parasitic species that can interact with each other and alter both host susceptibility and parasite…”
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Hibernation Patterns in Mammals: A Role for Bacterial Growth? by Luis, A. D., Hudson, P. J.

“…1. To examine the hypothesis that stimulation of immune function plays a role in periodic arousal from hibernation, bacterial growth during hibernation was…”
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The effect of aggressiveness on the population dynamics of a territorial bird by Mougeot, F, Redpath, S. M, Leckie, F, Hudson, P. J

“…A central issue in ecology lies in identifying the importance of resources, natural enemies and behaviour in the regulation of animal populations. Much of the…”
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Hantavirus and arenavirus antibody prevalence in rodents and humans in Trentino, Northern Italy by KALLIO-KOKKO, H., LAAKKONEN, J., RIZZOLI, A., TAGLIAPIETRA, V., CATTADORI, I., PERKINS, S. E., HUDSON, P. J., CRISTOFOLINI, A., VERSINI, W., VAPALAHTI, O., VAHERI, A., HENTTONEN, H.

“…The spatial and temporal distribution of hantavirus and arenavirus antibody-positive wild rodents in Trentino, Italy, was studied using immunofluorescence…”
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Prevention of Population Cycles by Parasite Removal by Hudson, Peter J., Dobson, Andy P., Newborn, Dave

“…The regular cyclic fluctuations in vertebrate numbers have intrigued scientists for more than 70 years, and yet the cause of such cycles has not been clearly…”
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The influence of a parasite community on the dynamics of a host population: a longitudinal study on willow ptarmigan and their parasites by Holmstad, P. R., Hudson, P. J., Skorping, A.

“…Despite the fact that most host populations are infected by a community of different parasite species, the majority of empirical studies have focused on the…”
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Molecular epidemiology of Rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus by Moss, S. R, Turner, S. L, Trout, R. C, White, P. J, Hudson, P. J, Desai, A, Armesto, M, Forrester, N. L, Gould, E. A

“…Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (formerly Institute of Virology), Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3SR, UK 1 Rabbit-Wise, Holtside, Batts Corner, Dockenfield,…”
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Parasite Transmission: Reconciling Theory and Reality by Fenton, A., Fairbairn, J. P., Norman, R., Hudson, P. J.

“…1. Arguably the most important and elusive component of host-parasite models is the transmission function. Considerable empirical and theoretical work has…”
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Effect of Ascaridia compar infection on rock partridge population dynamics: empirical and theoretical investigations by Rosà, R., Bolzoni, L., Rosso, F., Pugliese, A., Hudson, P. J., Rizzoli, A.

“…Helminth parasites have the potential to significantly affect the dynamics of their hosts. As a consequence, they can dramatically threaten the persistence of…”
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Climate disruption and parasite-host dynamics: patterns and processes associated with warming and the frequency of extreme climatic events by Hudson, P J, Cattadori, I M, Boag, B, Dobson, A P

“…Levels of parasitism and the dynamics of helminth systems is subject to the impact of environmental conditions such that we may expect long term increases in…”
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