The tortoise strategy as an arbovirus fitness phenotype within the mosquito as revealed by a novel formulation of age-structured vectorial capacity
E. H. Mayton, H. J. Wearing, A. R. Tramonte, R. C. Christofferson
This paper develops an age-structured vectorial capacity framework to analyze how mosquito age and arbovirus traits influence transmission dynamics, revealing a 'tortoise strategy' as more effective than faster phenotypes.
bioRxiv · Jan 1, 2020Ecology