Investigating the effects of age‐related spatial structuring on the transmission of a tick‐borne virus in a colonially breeding host

• DOI: 10.1002/ece3.3612
• Publication Date: 2017-11-12T20:36:35Z
• Authors: Klara M. Wanelik; Sarah J. Burthe; Mike P. Harris; Miles A. Nunn; H. Charles J. God...; Ben C. Sheldon; Angela R. McLean; Sarah Wanless
• Keywords: 0106 biological sciences; seabird; coloniality; vector-borne virus; environmental change; 01 natural sciences; orbivirus; Original Research; 3. Good health

Higher pathogen and parasite transmission is considered a universal cost of colonial breeding due to the physical proximity colony members. However, this has rarely been tested in natural colonies, which are structured entities, whose members interact with subset individuals differ their infection histories. We use population common guillemots,