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

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.