Interactions between social structure, demography, and transmission determine disease persistence in primates.

Catastrophic declines in African great ape populations due to disease outbreaks have been reported in recent years, yet we rarely hear of similar disease impacts for the more solitary Asian great apes, or for smaller primates. We used an age-structured model of different primate social systems to il...

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Main Authors: Sadie J Ryan, James H Jones, Andrew P Dobson
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/d422da5a8b7046b6a1a638f471496acc
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