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This model shows how a disease spreads in an insect population, such as asexually reproducing aphids, consisting of two life stages—nymphs and adults. The model has two parts, one for the healthy population and one for the diseased population. Diseased nymphs can infect healthy nymphs and become diseased adults. Diseased adults cannot infect healthy adults or nymphs but can produce infected nymphs. Note how these features are expressed in the model by the appropriate flows and links.
Man is infested with internal … and is plagued by external parasites. Charles Darwin, Decent of Man, I, i. i. 12, 1871
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Ruth, M., Hannon, B. (1997). Two Age-Class Parasite Model. In: Modeling Dynamic Biological Systems. Modeling Dynamic Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0651-4_26
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