%0 Journal Article %T Scaling of Host Competence %J - %D 2019 %R https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2018.12.002 %X Competence, defined as the rate at which an individual is exposed to parasites and transmits a resultant infection to a new host or vector, is affected by body size because body size strongly affects behavioral and physiological responses to disease risk.We developed a framework for integrating scaling into models of competence for multihost parasite systems and highlight what data exist for populating such a model %U https://www.cell.com/trends/parasitology/fulltext/S1471-4922(18)30269-1