Sociality and disease: behavioral perspectives in ecological and evolutionary immunology

We (Rebeca Rosengaus, James Traniello and Theo Bakker) just published the introduction

to the Topical Collection “Sociality and Disease“ in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. The coronavirus pandemic provide a timely illustration of the importance of basic and applied socioecoimmunological research from a broad phylogenetic perspective. The TC, which contains 15 papers, provides a timely focus on the bidirectional dynamics between social hosts and their pathogens in a diverse array of invertebrate and vertebrate clades.