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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"banded mongoose"”.
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Causes and consequences of inbreeding in the banded mongoose
… inbreeding avoidance in empirical studies. The banded mongoose (Mungos mungo) is a cooperative breeder which is unusual in that it frequently engages in incest. As part of the Banded Mongoose Research Project I have quantified the level of inbreeding and investigated both its causes and …
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Odour signals contain multi-modal information in the banded mongoose (Mungos mungo).
… facilitate reproductive decision-making in the banded mongoose (Mungos mungo). I use a wild but habituated population to conduct experimental odour presentations showing these mammals are capable of discriminating scents based on sex, familiarity, relatedness and female reproductive state. The …
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Understanding the Influence of Banded Mongoose (Mungos mungo) Social Structuring on Disease Transmission Using Molecular Tools
… understand how dispersal patterns of individual banded mongooses (Mungos mungo) could potentially influence disease transmission. Banded mongooses are small fossorial mammals that live in social groups ranging from 5 to 75 individuals and defend their territories against rival troops. The focal …
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The Influence of Heterogeneous Landscapes on Banded Mongoose (Mungos mungo) Behavior in Northern Botswana: Inferences about Infectious Disease Transmission
… and infectious disease remains limited. In the banded mongoose (Mungos mungo), a novel tuberculosis pathogen, Mycobacterium mungi, has emerged in Northern Botswana that is transmitted through olfactory communication behaviors. Using this host-pathogen system, this thesis explores the influence …
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Developing Transcriptional Markers for Detecting Infection with the Novel Tuberculosis Pathogen, Mycobacterium mungi, in Free-Ranging Banded Mongoose (Mungos mungo)
… which infects the highly social, group-living banded mongoose (Mungos mungo). M. mungi poses a large threat to human and animal health as banded mongoose hosts thrive in urbanized areas and live in close proximity to humans, but despite this threat, accurately diagnosing M. mungi infection …
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Tracking Pathogen Transmission at the Human-Wildlife Interface: Banded Mongoose (Mungos mungo) and Escherichia coli as a Model System in Chobe, Botswana
… near humans. As part of a long-term study of banded mongoose (Mungos mungo) that live in close association with humans and human fecal waste I used Escherichia coli and banded mongoose (Mungos mungo) for evaluating exchange of fecal waste-borne microorganisms at the human-wildlife interface. …
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The foraging ecology of banded mongooses (Mungos mungo): Epidemiological and human-wildlife conflict implications
Free-ranging banded mongooses (Mungos mungo) in northeastern Botswana are infected by a novel Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex pathogen, M. mungi, which putatively infects mongooses through lesions in the skin (often the planum nasale) from an environmental reservoir. To understand the …
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Bidirectional interactions between behavior and disease in banded mongooses (Mungos mungo) infected with Mycobacterium mungi
… influence and respond to infectious disease in a banded mongoose population experiencing epidemics of tuberculosis (TB) caused by the bacterial pathogen Mycobacterium mungi in the M. tuberculosis complex (Alexander et al. 2010). Banded mongooses are highly social carnivores that live in troops of …
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Evaluating Campylobacter spp at the human-wildlife interface
… be driving Campylobacter infection, and utilizes banded mongoose (Mungos mungo) (n=201) as a study species to illuminate potential Campylobacter spp. transmission at the human-wildlife interface in northern Botswana. Results of the latter study suggest that human-landscapes are critical to C. …
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Genetically based social communication in an inbred group-living wild mammal
… chemical communication in a social mammal, the banded mongoose. Banded mongooses are prolific scent markers that use secretions from different organs to communicate both within and between groups, as well as intra- and intersexually. Their exceptional breeding system, cooperative behavior and …
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Data-Driven Modeling For Social-Ecological Resilience within a One Health Framework
… 2, employ a stochastic age-structured model of a banded mongoose (Mungos mungo) population in northern Botswana affected by the fatal Mycobacterium mungi pathogen to simulate population and disease dynamics. Model simulations reveal that certain social-ecological factors such as Allee Effects and …