Infectious diseases in primates : behavior, ecology and evolution /

Infectious diseases in primates : behavior, ecology and evolution /

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Author / Creator:Nunn, Charles L.
Imprint:Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Description:xii, 384 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Oxford series in ecology and evolution
Subject:
Primates -- Diseases.
Communicable diseases.
Communicable diseases -- Environmental aspects.
Communicable diseases.
Communicable diseases -- Environmental aspects.
Primates -- Diseases.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6014910
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Other authors / contributors:Altizer, Sonia M.
ISBN:0198565852 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0198565844 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780198565857 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780198565840 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [296]-367) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Questions, terminology, and underlying principles
  • 1.1. Introduction
  • 1.2. Essential terminology: parasite, disease, and disease risk
  • 1.2.1. What is a parasite?
  • 1.2.2. Parasite and disease
  • 1.2.3. What is disease risk and how is it measured?
  • 1.3. Ecological drivers of primate sociality
  • 1.3.1. Between-group resource competition
  • 1.3.2. Predation and within-group competition
  • 1.3.3. Inter-sexual conflict
  • 1.3.4. Infectious disease
  • 1.4. Fitness consequences of parasites in wild primate populations
  • 1.5. Organizational layout of this book
  • 2. Diversity and characteristics of primate parasites
  • 2.1. Introduction
  • 2.2. Taxonomic diversity of parasites from wild primates
  • 2.2.1. Viruses
  • 2.2.2. Bacteria
  • 2.2.3. Fungi
  • 2.2.4. Protozoa
  • 2.2.5. Helminths
  • 2.2.6. Arthropods
  • 2.3. Strategies for parasite transmission
  • 2.4. Host specificity and "multi-host" parasites
  • 2.5. Virulence: negative effects of parasites on their hosts
  • 2.6. Parasite transmission and manipulation of host behavior
  • 2.6.1. Causes and consequences of altered behavior
  • 2.6.2. Manipulation of primate hosts
  • 2.7. Summary and synthesis
  • 3. Primate socioecology and disease risk: predictions and rationale
  • 3.1. Introduction
  • 3.2. Background concepts
  • 3.2.1. Encounter and infection probability
  • 3.2.2. Formulating hypotheses at individual and comparative levels
  • 3.3. Host traits and disease risk
  • 3.3.1. Body mass, life history, and individual age
  • 3.3.2. Host population size and density
  • 3.3.3. Social organization, group size, and dominance rank
  • 3.3.4. Reproduction, mating behavior, and sex differences
  • 3.3.5. Ranging behavior, substrate use, and diet
  • 3.3.6. Environmental factors and seasonality
  • 3.4. Summary and synthesis
  • 4. Host-parasite dynamics and epidemiological principles
  • 4.1. Introduction
  • 4.1.1. An historical perspective
  • 4.1.2. Basic terminology and measures of infection
  • 4.2. Analytical models of disease spread
  • 4.2.1. Microparasites and compartment models
  • 4.2.2. Macroparasite models
  • 4.3. The role of parasites in regulating host populations
  • 4.3.1. Theoretical predictions
  • 4.3.2. Regulation in experimental and natural populations
  • 4.4. Heterogeneities and dynamical complexities
  • 4.4.1. Spatial heterogeneity: landscape features and metapopulation dynamics
  • 4.4.2. Host social system
  • 4.4.3. Multi-host dynamics
  • 4.5. Summary and synthesis
  • 5. Host defenses: the immune system and behavioral counterstrategies
  • 5.1. Introduction
  • 5.2. Responding to infections: strategies for parasite removal
  • 5.2.1. Immune defenses
  • 5.2.2. Physiological responses and sickness behaviors
  • 5.2.3. Grooming as a means of parasite removal
  • 5.2.4. Medicinal plant use
  • 5.3. Preventing infections: strategies for parasite avoidance
  • 5.3.1. Habitat use and ranging behavior
  • 5.3.2. Diet
  • 5.3.3. Avoidance of arthropod vectors and parasites
  • 5.3.4. Parental care
  • 5.3.5. Avoiding infected conspecifics
  • 5.4. Parasite pressure, mate choice, and sexual selection
  • 5.4.1. Direct benefits: selection of uninfected caregivers
  • 5.4.2. Avoidance of directly transmitted parasites
  • 5.4.3. Indirect benefits of mate choice
  • 5.4.4. Parasite status, resistance, and signals for choosing mates
  • 5.5. Summary and synthesis
  • 6. Infectious disease and primate social systems
  • 6.1. Introduction
  • 6.2. Variation in primate social systems
  • 6.2.1. Chains of transmission within and among primate groups
  • 6.3. Disease risk and primate social systems
  • 6.3.1. Group size and contagious infections
  • 6.3.2. Group size, flying insects, and vector-borne infections
  • 6.3.3. Group composition
  • 6.3.4. Group spread and contact within groups
  • 6.3.5. Dispersal among groups
  • 6.3.6. Territoriality and range overlap
  • 6.4. Mating systems, sexual behavior, and STDs
  • 6.4.1. Mating promiscuity
  • 6.4.2. Effect of reproductive skew
  • 6.4.3. Testing effects of STD risk on primate mating systems
  • 6.5. Impacts of host behavior on pathogen evolution
  • 6.5.1. Evolution of virulence
  • 6.5.2. Evolution of transmission strategies
  • 6.5.3. Coevolution
  • 6.6. Methodological approaches to study effects of parasites on host social systems
  • 6.6.1. Fields studies
  • 6.6.2. Directional tests using comparative methods
  • 6.6.3. Incorporating parasites in comparative studies of sociality
  • 6.6.4. Modelling approaches
  • 6.7. Summary and synthesis
  • 7. Parasites and primate conservation
  • 7.1. Introduction
  • 7.2. Parasites as a cause of wildlife declines
  • 7.2.1. Emerging infectious diseases in primates and other wildlife
  • 7.3. Disease risk and anthropogenic change
  • 7.3.1. Habitat destruction and degradation
  • 7.3.2. Reductions in host population size
  • 7.3.3. Human impacts on parasite biology
  • 7.4. Conservation efforts in response to infectious disease risk
  • 7.4.1. Monitoring parasites in wild populations
  • 7.4.2. Reserve design and management
  • 7.4.3. Captive breeding and semi-free-ranging populations
  • 7.4.4. Ecotourism and scientific field research
  • 7.4.5. Direct intervention to reduce the impact of disease
  • 7.5. Evolutionary considerations and host-parasite biodiversity
  • 7.6. Summary and synthesis
  • 8. From nonhuman primates to human health and evolution
  • 8.1. Introduction
  • 8.2. Origins and early history of infectious disease in humans
  • 8.2.1. Infectious agents in early human societies
  • 8.2.2. Epidemiological transitions and the rise of human pathogens
  • 8.3. Human responses to infectious diseases: from Darwinian medicine to public health
  • 8.3.1. Behavioral responses to infectious diseases
  • 8.3.2. Evolution of immune defenses and resistance traits
  • 8.4. Global patterns of disease risk among contemporary human societies
  • 8.5. Wild primates and emerging diseases in humans
  • 8.6. Summary and synthesis
  • 9. Concluding remarks and future directions
  • 9.1. Introduction
  • 9.2. What is the diversity of parasites in wild primates?
  • 9.3. Population biology and impacts of parasites in wild primates
  • 9.4. Immune and behavioral defenses: tradeoffs against different infectious agents
  • 9.5. What are the links between primate sociality and parasitism?
  • 9.6. Are parasites a significant threat to primate conservation efforts?
  • 9.7. From primates to understanding human-pathogen interaction
  • 9.8. Concluding remarks
  • References
  • Index
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