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Data and code for: Pathogen priming alters host transmission potential and predictors of transmissibility in a wild songbird species

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posted on 2025-01-17, 19:22 authored by Dana HawleyDana Hawley, Ariel E Leon, James S. Adelman, Arietta Fleming-Davies

This experiment examined how prior exposure (priming) to a pathogen at different levels influences how contagious house finches are during reinfection. Birds were given priming exposures to Mycoplasma gallisepticum at one of three levels in individual cages and then given a secondary infection challenge with a high dose of one of two strains (VA94 or NC06). They were paired with a cagemate during secondary challenge to measure how contagious they were to a pathogen-naive cagemate.

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University Libraries, Virginia Tech

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Dana Hawley

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hawleyd@vt.edu

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File 1- "transmission prior exposure analyses code for posting" is the R code used for analysis in R studio; all variables are defined within the code File 2 - the dataset used for analysis in CSV format

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