Melissa A. Pavez-Fox

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Social ageing can protect against infectious disease in a group-living primate

Oct 22, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Erin Siracusa |Melissa A. Pavez-Fox |Daniel Phillips |Michael Platt

AbstractThe benefits of social living are well established, but sociality also comes with costs, including infectious disease risk. This cost-benefit ratio of sociality is expected to change across individuals′ lifespans, which may drive changes in social behaviour with age.

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