Keeping the kids at home can limit the persistence of contagious pathogens in social animals

Lucile Marescot; Mathias Franz; Sarah Benhaiem; Heribert Hofer; Marion East; Stephanie Kramer-Schadt

. CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license author/funder. It is made available under a The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not peer-reviewed) is the . https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.11.036806 doi: bioRxiv preprint Input data 210 Except for life history parameter estimates from previous studies on spotted hyenas (from This second term depended on the contact ratio π, hence accounted for contact rates between 228 individuals from different groups (see Table 1 ). Both terms were then multiplied by the 229 infectivity of the pathogen Inf, describing the probability that a susceptible host became 230 infected after exposure to the pathogen (see Table 1 ). In (1), , and 231 ℎ , represent the densities within a given group and in other groups, respectively. 232 . CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license author/funder. It is made available under a The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not peer-reviewed) is the . https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.11.036806 doi: bioRxiv preprint For a susceptible individual i, the probability of becoming infected Pi was given by: