Individual differences in boldness influence patterns of social interactions and the transmission of cuticular bacteria among group-mates

Cuticular bacteria appear detrimental to social spiders in mixed but not monoculture exposure

(2016) Carl N. Keiser et al.   Current Zoology

Cuticular bacteria appear detrimental to social spiders in mixed but not monoculture exposure

(2016) Carl N. Keiser et al.   Current Zoology

Personality and morphology shape task participation, collective foraging and escape behaviour in the social spider Stegodyphus dumicola

(2015) Colin M. Wright et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Parasites and personality in periwinkles (Littorina littorea): Infection status is associated with mean-level boldness but not repeatability

(2015) Ben Seaman et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Using contact networks to explore mechanisms of parasite transmission in wildlife

(2015) Lauren A. White et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Dispersal of a defensive symbiont depends on contact between hosts, host health, and host size

(2015) Skylar R. Hopkins et al.   OECOLOGIA

The legacy effects of keystone individuals on collective behaviour scale to how long they remain within a group

(2015) Jonathan N. Pruitt et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Feeder use predicts both acquisition and transmission of a contagious pathogen in a North American songbird

(2015) James S. Adelman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The personality types of key catalytic individuals shape colonies' collective behaviour and success

(2014) Jonathan N. Pruitt et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Exploring the effects of individual traits and within-colony variation on task differentiation and collective behavior in a desert social spider

(2014) Carl N. Keiser et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Not all types of host contacts are equal when it comes toE. colitransmission

(2014) Michaela D.J. Blyton et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Site-specific group selection drives locally adapted group compositions

(2014) Jonathan N. Pruitt et al.   NATURE

Personality composition is more important than group size in determining collective foraging behaviour in the wild

(2014) C. N. Keiser et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The role of behavioural heterogeneity on infection patterns: implications for pathogen transmission

(2013) Laurie Dizney et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Linking levels of personality: personalities of the ‘average’ and ‘most extreme’ group members predict colony-level personality

(2013) Jonathan N. Pruitt et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Do brain parasites alter host personality? — Experimental study in minnows

(2013) Jukka Kekäläinen et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Birds Shed RNA-Viruses According to the Pareto Principle

(2013) Mark D. Jankowski et al.   PLoS One

Individual personalities shape task differentiation in a social spider

(2013) L. Grinsted et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Systemic Immune State of Super-shedder Mice Is Characterized by a Unique Neutrophil-dependent Blunting of TH1 Responses

(2013) Smita Gopinath et al.   PLoS Pathogens

House finches (Carpodacus mexicanus) balance investment in behavioural and immunological defences against pathogens

(2012) M. Zylberberg et al.   Biology Letters

Social organization patterns can lower disease risk without associated disease avoidance or immunity

(2012) Karlo Hock et al.   Ecological Complexity

Ecological implications of behavioural syndromes

(2012) Andrew Sih et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Task specialization in two social spiders,Stegodyphus sarasinorum(Eresidae) andAnelosimus eximius(Theridiidae)

(2012) V. Settepani et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Parasite manipulation of host personality and behavioural syndromes

(2012) R. Poulin   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Generating super-shedders: co-infection increases bacterial load and egg production of a gastrointestinal helminth

(2012) S. Lass et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Whole-Genome Sequencing and Social-Network Analysis of a Tuberculosis Outbreak

(2011) Jennifer L. Gardy et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Parasitism, predation and the evolution of animal personalities

(2010) Raine Kortet et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Personality, space use and tick load in an introduced population of Siberian chipmunksTamias sibiricus

(2010) Nelly Boyer et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Parasitism and the evolutionary ecology of animal personality

(2010) I. Barber et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Behavioural trait assortment in a social network: patterns and implications

(2009) Darren P. Croft et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Social network theory: new insights and issues for behavioral ecologists

(2009) Andrew Sih et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Skin microbes on frogs prevent morbidity and mortality caused by a lethal skin fungus

(2009) Reid N Harris et al.   ISME Journal

Comparison of social networks derived from ecological data: implications for inferring infectious disease dynamics

(2009) Sarah E. Perkins et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Skin microbiota: a source of disease or defence?

(2008) A.L. Cogen et al.   BRITISH JOURNAL OF DERMATOLOGY

Bacterial strategies to overcome insect defences

(2008) Isabelle Vallet-Gely et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Behavioural phenotype affects social interactions in an animal network

(2008) T. W Pike et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES