Banded mongooses scent-mark to keep rival groups apart. Our new paper in #EcologyAndEvolution finds those same marks create indirect pathogen contacts 16x more frequent than direct contact. Social defenses become transmission highways. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Using behavioral observations and network simulations, we evaluate direct and indirect transmission of the MTBC pathogen M. mungi in banded mongooses. Incorporating intergroup scent marking reveals t....
