Adult Mosquito Ecology, Behavior and Infection Dynamics

An Overview

July 14, 2025

library(knitr)
library(ramp.xds)
library(deSolve)
library(ramp.library)

ramp.library and ramp.xds aim to provide a comprehensive code library for models of adult mosquito ecology, behaviors, and infection dynamics. The following is a short overview of existing model families:

Modules in ramp.xds

• basicM

• macdonald

• SI

• GeRM

Modules in ramp.library

• SEI

• RMG

Macdonald’s Model

• The [si] model The mathematical model Ross published in his 1911 Nature paper was very simple.

• The mosquito model

Mosquito Age

Behavioral State Models

• A basic behavioral state model was developed by Le Menach, et al. (2005).. Here, we have implemented a version of that model as the RMG model

• The model MBITES has a system of differential equations with 5 behavioral states.

• In VCOM, the diagram

Other

• Vertical Transmission

• Super-infection