ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2023
Sex-biased infections scale to population impacts for an emerging wildlife disease.
Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- Positive Density Dependence Promotes Host Persistence in the Face of Infectious Disease.Ecology letters · 2025Article
- A Palearctic view of a bat fungal disease.Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2025Review
- Disparities inEcology and evolution · 2024Article
- A New Overview of Sex Bias in Fungal Infections.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- The skin I live in: Pathogenesis of white-nose syndrome of bats.PLoS pathogens · 2024Review
- Capture rates ofEcology and evolution · 2024Article
- Is there a sicker sex? Dose relationships modify male-female differences in infection prevalence.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Sex-biased infections scale to population impacts for an emerging wildlife disease.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
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Abstract
Demographic factors are fundamental in shaping infectious disease dynamics. Aspects of populations that create structure, like age and sex, can affect patterns of transmission, infection intensity and population outcomes. However, studies rarely link these processes from individual to population-scale effects. Moreover, the mechanisms underlying demographic differences in disease are frequently unclear. Here, we explore sex-biased infections for a multi-host fungal disease of bats, white-nose syndrome, and link disease-associated mortality between sexes, the distortion of sex ratios and the potential mechanisms underlying sex differences in infection. We collected data on host traits, infection intensity and survival of five bat species at 42 sites across seven years. We found females were more infected than males for all five species. Females also had lower apparent survival over winter and accounted for a smaller proportion of populations over time. Notably, female-biased infections were evident by early hibernation and likely driven by sex-based differences in autumn mating behaviour. Male bats were more active during autumn which likely reduced replication of the cool-growing fungus. Higher disease impacts in female bats may have cascading effects on bat populations beyond the hibernation season by limiting recruitment and increasing the risk of Allee effects.
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