Publications by authors named "Elodie Thomas"
Article Synopsis
- Social structures can impact disease risk by influencing how close individuals are and how often they interact, which is particularly relevant for primates with complex social networks.
- A study on Japanese macaques used social network analysis to identify how relationships within the group affect the transmission of a theoretical infectious agent, finding that more central individuals transmit infections faster and get infected sooner.
- However, the research showed that in some cases, the spread of disease in these macaque networks did not significantly differ from random networks, suggesting that individual characteristics may not always play a crucial role in disease transmission.
