No energetic cost of tuberculosis infection in European badgers (Meles meles)

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• tuberculosis 94%
• body mass 78%
• infection 66%
• energetics 63%
• expenditure 57%
• fat 43%
• cost 36%
• wild animal 36%
• group size 35%
• energy 34%
• bovine tuberculosis 23%
• protected species 19%
• social group 18%
• biotic factor 16%
• abiotic factor 16%
• epidemiology 15%
• carnivore 15%
• energy use 14%
• cattle 14%
• fitness 13%
• life history 13%
• energy balance 13%
• organism 9%
• rate 9%
• rainfall 8%
• winter 8%
• summer 8%
• effect 6%
• temperature 5%

Agriculture & Biology

• Meles meles 100%
• badgers 94%
• tuberculosis 80%
• energy expenditure 61%
• infection 37%
• resting metabolic rate 37%
• wild animals 30%
• group size 30%
• protected species 19%
• bovine tuberculosis 18%
• gender 17%
• energy 16%
• ecological function 16%
• social class 16%
• biotic factors 16%
• zoonoses 15%
• carnivores 15%
• lipids 15%
• energy balance 14%
• body fat 14%
• epidemiology 13%
• life history 11%
• rain 11%
• ambient temperature 10%
• winter 9%
• summer 9%
• environmental factors 9%
• cattle 8%
• organisms 8%