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SUBMITTER: Ezenwa VO
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6283948 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ezenwa Vanessa O VO Worsley-Tonks Katherine E L KEL
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20181128 1892
Elevated parasite infection risk is considered to be a near-universal cost of social living. However, living in groups may also provide benefits that reduce the negative impacts of infection. These potential 'tolerance' benefits of living socially are theoretically possible, but have rarely been described. In this study, we used an anthelmintic treatment experiment in wild Grant's gazelles (<i>Nanger granti</i>), who are commonly infected with gastrointestinal nematodes (GIN), to show that socia ...[more]