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Implements the MY component using a discrete-time Macdonald model of adult mosquito ecology and infection dynamics.

State Variables

M

density of adult mosquitoes

Y

density of infected adult mosquitoes

Z

density of infectious adult mosquitoes

Parameters

f

blood feeding rate

q

human blood fraction

eip

extrinsic incubation period (time steps)

g

mosquito mortality rate

sigma

emigration rate

mu

emigration loss rate

K

mosquito dispersal matrix

Omega

adult mosquito demographic matrix (mortality + migration)

Upsilon

survival and dispersal through the eip

Dynamics

State is updated each time step via Update_MYt.RMdts.