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cord-018821-e9oxvgar	Webber, Quinn M. R.	Sociality, Parasites, and Pathogens in Bats	2016-04-27		.txt	text/plain	10935	499	38	We identified social network analysis, epidemiological modeling, and interspecific comparative analyses as the most commonly used methods to quantify relationships between social behavior and parasite-risk in bats while WNS, Hendra virus, and arthropod ectoparasites were the most commonly studied host-parasite systems. Although the mechanism inducing increased energy expenditure and arousals by infected bats is still not fully understood (for review see Willis 2015) , variation in social behavior could mediate fungal transmission and growth, especially since affected species tend to hibernate in large colonies or aggregations in caves or mines. We suggest studies employing social network analysis of wild bats, combined with estimates of micro-and macroparasite prevalence, and intensity to disentangle relationships between host social behavior, including fission-fusion dynamics, and the ecology of parasite transmission (for review see Godfrey 2013). Ectoparasite studies have identified links between parasite risk, colony size, and fission-fusion dynamics which have broad implications for understanding how sociality affects host-parasite interactions in bats.	./cache/cord-018821-e9oxvgar.txt	./txt/cord-018821-e9oxvgar.txt