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Mapping the Social Network: Tracking lice in a wild primate population (Microcebus rufus) to infer social contacts and vector potential


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dc.contributorSarah Zohdy, smz0003@auburn.eduen_US
dc.creatorZohdy, Sarah
dc.creatorKemp, Addison D.
dc.creatorDurden, Lance A.
dc.creatorWright, Patricia C.
dc.creatorJernvall, Jukka
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-11T05:55:43Z
dc.date.available2022-03-11T05:55:43Z
dc.date.created2012-04
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6785-12-4en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://bmcecol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1472-6785-12-4en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://aurora.auburn.edu/handle/11200/50042
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.35099/aurora-111
dc.description.abstractStudies of host-parasite interactions have the potential to provide insights into the ecology of both organisms involved. We monitored the movement of sucking lice (Lemurpediculus verruculosus), parasites that require direct host-host contact to be transferred, in their host population of wild mouse lemurs (Microcebus rufus). These lemurs live in the rainforests of Madagascar, are small (40 g), arboreal, nocturnal, solitary foraging primates for which data on population-wide interactions are difficult to obtain. We developed a simple, cost effective method exploiting the intimate relationship between louse and lemur, whereby individual lice were marked, without removal from their host, with an individualized code, and tracked throughout the lemur population. We then tested the hypotheses that 1) the frequency of louse transfers, and thus interactions, would decrease with increasing distance between paired individual lemurs; 2) due to host polygynandry, social interactions and hence louse transfers would increase during the onset of the breeding season; and 3) individual mouse lemurs would vary in their contributions to the spread of liceen_US
dc.formatPDFen_US
dc.publisherBMCen_US
dc.relation.ispartofBMC Ecologyen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries1472-6785en_US
dc.rightsThis is the version of record published by BMC and is made available under the CC-BY 4.0 license. Item should be cited as: Zohdy, S., Kemp, A. D., Durden, L. A., Wright, P. C., & Jernvall, J. (2012). Mapping the social network: tracking lice in a wild primate (Microcebus rufus) population to infer social contacts and vector potential. BMC ecology, 12(1), 1-12.en_US
dc.subjectPrimateen_US
dc.subjectParasiteen_US
dc.subjectLiceen_US
dc.subjectSocial contacten_US
dc.subjectMouse lemuren_US
dc.subjectVector potentialen_US
dc.titleMapping the Social Network: Tracking lice in a wild primate population (Microcebus rufus) to infer social contacts and vector potentialen_US
dc.typeTexten_US
dc.type.genreJournal Article, Academic Journalen_US
dc.citation.volume52en_US
dc.citation.issue1en_US
dc.citation.spage1en_US
dc.citation.epage12en_US
dc.description.statusPublisheden_US
dc.description.peerreviewYesen_US
dc.creator.orcid0000-0001-5316-0567en_US

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