Jose L Orozco-Gonzales, Antone Dos Santos Benedito, Daiver Cardona-Salgado, Claudia Pio Ferreira, Helenice de Oliveira Florentino, Lilian S Sepulveda-Salcedo, Olga Vasilieva
This paper proposes a bidimensional modeling framework for Wolbachia invasion, assuming imperfect maternal transmission, incomplete cytoplasmic incompatibility, and direct infection loss due to thermal stress. Our model adapts to various Wolbachia strains and retains all properties of higher-dimensional models. The conditions for the durable coexistence of Wolbachia-carrying and wild mosquitoes are expressed using the model's parameters in a compact closed form. When the Wolbachia bacterium is locally established, the size of the remanent wild population can be assessed by a direct formula derived from the model...
April 15, 2024: Mathematical Biosciences