Chronic infections can shape epidemic exposure: Pathogen co-occurrence networks in the Serengeti lions

Nicholas M. Fountain-Jones; Craig Packer; Maude Jacquot; F. Guillaume Blanchet; Karen Terio; Meggan E. Craft

. CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license is made available under a The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not peer-reviewed) is the author/funder. It . https://doi.org/10.1101/370841 doi: bioRxiv preprint 3 3 The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not peer-reviewed) is the author/funder. It . https://doi.org/10.1101/370841 doi: bioRxiv preprint 4 3 4 Fig. 3 : Summary of the strong positive (red line/arrows) and negative (blue lines/arrows) interactions between chronic (grey circles) and acute (orange circles) pathogens in the Serengeti lions; dark-grey borders indicate protozoa. The direction of the red or blue arrows indicates the potential sequence of infection events. The black arrow along the X-axis represents lion age with the relative position of the circles reflecting when lions were likely to be infected by each . CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license is made available under a The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not peer-reviewed) is the author/funder. It . https://doi.org/10.1101/370841 doi: bioRxiv preprint