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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2025

Sociality and kinship constrain the free-mixing of pathogens in a wild mammal host population.

Clare H Benton, Richard Delahay, Barbara Shih, Rowland R Kao, Robbie A McDonald, Dave J Hodgson

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Clare H BentonAnimal and Plant Health Agency, Woodchester Park, Stonehouse, Gloucestershire GL10 3UJ, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-5564-1137
Richard DelahayAnimal and Plant Health Agency, Woodchester Park, Stonehouse, Gloucestershire GL10 3UJ, UK.
Barbara ShihDepartment of Biomedical and Life Sciences, The University of Edinburgh The Roslin Institute, Edinburgh, UK.
Rowland R KaoRoyal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-0919-6401
Robbie A McDonaldEnvironment and Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter, Penryn, Cornwall, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-6922-3195
Dave J HodgsonUniversity of Exeter Centre for Ecology and Conservation, Penryn, Cornwall, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-4220-2076

Funding

BBSRCDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, UK Government
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pathogens rarely mix freely throughout host populations, and the presence of barriers to transmission can be detected as patterns of increased genetic isolation among pathogen isolates. Despite the importance of transmission patterns in host societies, and the risk of epizootics from wildlife disease systems, barriers to open pathogen transmission are poorly understood in wild hosts. We tested the influence of host kinship and social structure on genetic divergence among strains of

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MustelidaeMycobacterium bovisSocial BehaviorTuberculosis, BovineAnimalsAnimals, Wildbadgersbovine tuberculosiskinshipMycobacterium boviswhole-genome sequencing

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PMID40664251
PMCPMC12263247

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