ArticleEcoHealth2014
The impact of health status on dispersal behavior in banded mongooses (Mungos mungo).
Article in EcoHealth, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Networks of Indirect Contact Promote Spread of an Environmentally Transmitted Pathogen in a Highly Social Species.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Genetic variation in parasite avoidance, yet no evidence for constitutive fitness costs.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2024Article
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- Bat behavioral immune responses in social contexts: current knowledge and future directions.Frontiers in immunology · 2023Review
- Urban landscapes increase dispersal, gene flow, and pathogen transmission potential in banded mongoose (Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- Effect of food limitation and reproductive activity on fecal glucocorticoid metabolite levels in banded mongooses.BMC ecology · 2020Article
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- Animal-adapted members of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex endemic to the southern African subregion.Journal of the South African Veterinary Association · 2016Review
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Abstract
While disease and injury have obvious impacts on mortality, they can have less understood non-lethal impacts on behavior. These behavioral effects might have a significant consequences for population-level disease dynamics if diseased individuals are more or less likely to disperse. We opportunistically observed dispersal events in banded mongooses (Mungos mungo) that were either healthy or unhealthy due to injury and/or clinical signs of a novel tuberculosis pathogen, Mycobacterium mungi. We found that diseased and/or injured mongooses were significantly less likely to disperse than healthy individuals, suggesting that disease may have an important consequences for dispersal that could in turn affect population-level disease dynamics.
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