ReviewNeuroscience and biobehavioral reviews2023
How behavioural ageing affects infectious disease.
Review in Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews, 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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- Serological and Molecular Surveillance of Influenza A Virus in Dogs and Cats in Central Chile.Zoonoses and public health · 2026Article
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- Prevalence and characterization of gastrointestinal and ectoparasites in long-tailed macaques (Veterinary world · 2025Article
- The ecology of ageing in wild societies: linking age structure and social behaviour.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Review
- Divergent age-related changes in parasite infection occur independently of behaviour and demography in a wild ungulate.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Social ageing can protect against infectious disease in a group-living primate.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Understanding age and society using natural populations.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Social ageing can protect against infectious disease in a group-living primate.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Behavioral plasticity shapes population aging patterns in a long-lived avian scavenger.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- The fortunes and misfortunes of social life across the life course: A new era of research from field, laboratory and comparative studies.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2024Article
- Trade-offs between sociality and gastrointestinal parasite infection in the context of a natural disaster.Animal behaviour · 2024Article
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Abstract
Ageing is associated with profound changes in behaviour that could influence exposure and susceptibility to infectious disease. As well as determining emergent patterns of infection across individuals of different ages, behavioural ageing could interact with, confound, or counteract age-related changes in other traits. Here, we examine how behavioural ageing can manifest and influence patterns of infection in wild animals. We discuss a range of age-related changes that involve interactions between behaviour and components of exposure and susceptibility to infection, including social ageing and immunosenescence, acquisition of novel parasites and pathogens with age, changes in spatial behaviours, and age-related hygiene and sickness behaviours. Overall, most behavioural changes are expected to result in a reduced exposure rate, but there is relatively little evidence for this phenomenon, emerging largely from a rarity of explicit tests of exposure changes over the lifespan. This review offers a framework for understanding how ageing, behaviour, immunity, and infection interact, providing a series of hypotheses and testable predictions to improve our understanding of health in ageing societies.
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