Energetic Benefits of Sociality Offset the Costs of Parasitism in a Cooperative Mammal

• Heike Lutermann ,

  * E-mail: hlutermann@zoology.up.ac.z (HL); m.scantlebury@qub.ac.uk (MS)

  Affiliation Mammal Research Institute, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Hatfield, South Africa

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• Nigel C. Bennett,

  Affiliation Mammal Research Institute, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Hatfield, South Africa

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• John R. Speakman,

  Affiliations Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Zoology Building, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, State Key Laboratory of Molecular and Developmental Biology, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China

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• Michael Scantlebury

  * E-mail: hlutermann@zoology.up.ac.z (HL); m.scantlebury@qub.ac.uk (MS)

  Affiliations Mammal Research Institute, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Hatfield, South Africa, School of Biological Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

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