The BQm module for the MY component

Source: R/adult-MY-BQm.R

Implements the MY component using a BQm (Blood-feeding / egg-laying Queue, mosquito-only) model. This is the uninfected-only version of the BQ model: mosquitoes alternate between a blood-feeding state (B) and a gravid / egg-laying state (Q), without tracking infection states.

State Variables

B

density of blood-feeding (not gravid) mosquitoes

Q

density of gravid (egg-laying) mosquitoes

Parameters

f

blood feeding rate

q

human blood fraction

g

mosquito mortality rate

sigma_b

emigration rate during blood feeding

sigma_q

emigration rate during egg laying

mu

fraction lost during emigration

nu

oviposition rate (per mosquito)

eggsPerBatch

eggs laid per oviposition bout

Dynamics

$$ \begin{array}{rl} dB/dt &= \Lambda + \nu Q - f B - \Omega_b \cdot B \\ dQ/dt &= f B - \nu Q - \Omega_q \cdot Q \\ \end{array} $$