“Home sweet home”: how limiting between-group interactions of young individuals can favour epidemic fade-out in social species
This blog post is provided by L Marescot, M Franz, S Benhaiem, H Hofer, C Scherer, M L East, and S Kramer-Schadt and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “‘Keeping the kids at home’ can limit the persistence of contagious pathogens in social animals” which was recently published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. In 2015, Stephanie Kramer-Schadt, head of the Ecological Dynamics Department and Marion East, head of the … Continue reading “Home sweet home”: how limiting between-group interactions of young individuals can favour epidemic fade-out in social species
Animal Ecology in Focus 