Contact networks have small metric backbones that maintain community structure and are primary transmission subgraphs

• Rion Brattig Correia,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal, Department of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering, Center for Social and Biomedical Complexity, Binghamton University, Binghamton New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5460-9397

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• Alain Barrat,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Aix Marseille Univ, Université de Toulon, CNRS, CPT, Turing Center for Living Systems, Marseille, France

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8683-269X

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• Luis M. Rocha

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rocha@binghamton.edu

  ¤ Current address: Department of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering, Binghamton University, Binghamton NY, United States of America

  Affiliations Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal, Department of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering, Center for Social and Biomedical Complexity, Binghamton University, Binghamton New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9402-887X

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