Paper of the week 17.12.18: Cryptic connections illuminate pathogen transmission within community networks

2018-12-17T10:07:29+00:00

Reference: Cryptic connections illuminate pathogen transmission within community networks. Hoyt, Langwig, White, Kaarakka, Redell, Kurta, DePue, Scullon, Parise, Foster, Frick, Kilpatrick This week’s paper of the week is brought to you by Dr Anant Jani, 3V Executive Director. Bottom line (chosen from the paper) We have shown that cryptic connections among groups and species have a key role in transmission dynamics and explain why transmission is far more intense in some species than others. Cryptic connections not only link social groups within species but also create bridges among species, resulting in highly connected communities Implications for value improvement  This very interesting paper looks at transmission of pathogens within and between different species of bats.  Hoyt et al.’s findings [...]