| linking social and pathogen transmission networks using microbial genetics in giraffe (giraffa camelopardalis). | although network analysis has drawn considerable attention as a promising tool for disease ecology, empirical research has been hindered by limitations in detecting the occurrence of pathogen transmission (who transmitted to whom) within social networks. using a novel approach, we utilize the genetics of a diverse microbe, escherichia coli, to infer where direct or indirect transmission has occurred and use these data to construct transmission networks for a wild giraffe population (giraffe came ... | 2014 | 24117416 |