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OA_place: repository
OA_type: green
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abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: "Animals exhibit a variety of behavioural defences against socially transmitted
    parasites. These defences evolved to increase host fitness by avoiding, resisting
    or tolerating infection.\r\nBecause they can occur in both infected individuals
    and their uninfected social partners, these defences often have important consequences
    for the social group.\r\nHere, we discuss the evolution and ecology of anti-parasite
    behavioural defences across a taxonomically wide social spectrum, considering
    colonial groups, stable groups, transitional groups and solitary animals.\r\nWe
    discuss avoidance, resistance and tolerance behaviours across these social group
    structures, identifying how social complexity, group composition and interdependent
    social relationships may contribute to the expression and evolution of behavioural
    strategies.\r\nFinally, we outline avenues for further investigation such as approaches
    to quantify group-level responses, and the connection of the physiological and
    behavioural response to parasites in different social contexts."
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article_type: review
author:
- first_name: Sebastian
  full_name: Stockmaier, Sebastian
  last_name: Stockmaier
- first_name: Yuko
  full_name: Ulrich, Yuko
  last_name: Ulrich
- first_name: Gregory F.
  full_name: Albery, Gregory F.
  last_name: Albery
- first_name: Sylvia
  full_name: Cremer, Sylvia
  id: 2F64EC8C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  last_name: Cremer
  orcid: 0000-0002-2193-3868
- first_name: Patricia C.
  full_name: Lopes, Patricia C.
  last_name: Lopes
citation:
  ama: Stockmaier S, Ulrich Y, Albery GF, Cremer S, Lopes PC. Behavioural defences
    against parasites across host social structures. <i>Functional Ecology</i>. 2023;37(4):809-820.
    doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14310">10.1111/1365-2435.14310</a>
  apa: Stockmaier, S., Ulrich, Y., Albery, G. F., Cremer, S., &#38; Lopes, P. C. (2023).
    Behavioural defences against parasites across host social structures. <i>Functional
    Ecology</i>. British Ecological Society. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14310">https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14310</a>
  chicago: Stockmaier, Sebastian, Yuko Ulrich, Gregory F. Albery, Sylvia Cremer, and
    Patricia C. Lopes. “Behavioural Defences against Parasites across Host Social
    Structures.” <i>Functional Ecology</i>. British Ecological Society, 2023. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14310">https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14310</a>.
  ieee: S. Stockmaier, Y. Ulrich, G. F. Albery, S. Cremer, and P. C. Lopes, “Behavioural
    defences against parasites across host social structures,” <i>Functional Ecology</i>,
    vol. 37, no. 4. British Ecological Society, pp. 809–820, 2023.
  ista: Stockmaier S, Ulrich Y, Albery GF, Cremer S, Lopes PC. 2023. Behavioural defences
    against parasites across host social structures. Functional Ecology. 37(4), 809–820.
  mla: Stockmaier, Sebastian, et al. “Behavioural Defences against Parasites across
    Host Social Structures.” <i>Functional Ecology</i>, vol. 37, no. 4, British Ecological
    Society, 2023, pp. 809–20, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14310">10.1111/1365-2435.14310</a>.
  short: S. Stockmaier, Y. Ulrich, G.F. Albery, S. Cremer, P.C. Lopes, Functional
    Ecology 37 (2023) 809–820.
date_created: 2023-03-26T22:01:09Z
date_published: 2023-04-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2025-07-10T11:50:31Z
day: '01'
department:
- _id: SyCr
doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.14310
external_id:
  isi:
  - '000948940500001'
intvolume: '        37'
isi: 1
issue: '4'
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
  url: https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1585&context=sees_articles
month: '04'
oa: 1
oa_version: Submitted Version
page: 809-820
publication: Functional Ecology
publication_identifier:
  eissn:
  - 1365-2435
  issn:
  - 0269-8463
publication_status: published
publisher: British Ecological Society
quality_controlled: '1'
scopus_import: '1'
status: public
title: Behavioural defences against parasites across host social structures
type: journal_article
user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
volume: 37
year: '2023'
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