Social contact behaviors are associated with infection status for Trichuris sp. in wild vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus)

• Brandi Wren ,

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

  * E-mail: brandiwren@gmail.com

  ¶‡ MR and TRG also contributed equally to this work. BW is senior author on this work.

  Affiliations Department of Anthropology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America, Applied Behavioural Ecology and Ecosystem Research Unit, University of South Africa, Florida, Republic of South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3119-3314

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• Ian S. Ray ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ian S. Ray, Joseph Camp

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Applied Behavioural Ecology and Ecosystem Research Unit, University of South Africa, Florida, Republic of South Africa, Dr3 Research and Consulting, LLC, Denver, Colorado, United States of America, Department of Research Methods and Statistics, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-8925

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• Melissa Remis ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ MR and TRG also contributed equally to this work. BW is senior author on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

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• Thomas R. Gillespie ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ MR and TRG also contributed equally to this work. BW is senior author on this work.

  Affiliation Departments of Environmental Sciences and Environmental Health and Program in Population Biology, Ecology, and Evolutionary Biology, Emory University and Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7901-7248

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• Joseph Camp

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ian S. Ray, Joseph Camp

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Comparative Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

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