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ArticleEcology and evolution2026

Networks of Indirect Contact Promote Spread of an Environmentally Transmitted Pathogen in a Highly Social Species.

Jack R Leitch, Neil R Jordan, John M Drake, Michael A Cant, Kathleen A Alexander

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Article in Ecology and evolution, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Jack R LeitchDepartment of Fish and Wildlife Conservation Virginia Tech Blacksburg Virginia USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8822-9410
Neil R JordanCentre for Ecosystem Science, University of New South Wales, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences Sydney New South Wales Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0712-8301
John M DrakeOdum School of Ecology University of Georgia Athens Georgia USA.
Michael A CantUniversity of Exeter Penryn UK.
Kathleen A AlexanderDepartment of Fish and Wildlife Conservation Virginia Tech Blacksburg Virginia USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7338-5341

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In group-living species, social behaviors, including non-contact territorial defense, may decrease the risk of pathogen transmission and spread by reducing contact among conspecifics, yet these strategies may paradoxically increase opportunities for transmission in some host-pathogen systems. We explore how social behaviors shape direct and indirect pathogen transmission of the emerging

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banded mongoosecontact networkenvironmental transmissionMycobacterium mungiscent markingtemporal network

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PMID42256188
PMCPMC13238585

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