From: A malaria transmission-directed model of mosquito life cycle and ecology
Parameter | Value used in simulations | Source, notes |
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Habitat scalars Ktemp | 1.25 × 109 for gambiae ss and 11.25 × 109 for arabiensis | Fit to site-specific data through simulation |
Habitat scalar Ksemi | 6 × 108 for funestus | Fit to site-specific data through simulation |
Habitat time constants ktempdecay and Ï„semi | 0.05 (ktempdecay) 0.01/day (Ï„semi) | Fit through simulation |
Larval development Arrhenius parameters a1, a2 | 8.42 × 1010, 8.3 × 103 | Fit to traditional curve in [4] |
Incubation period Arrhenius parameters a1, a2 | 1.17 × 1011, 8.4 × 103 | Fit to traditional curve in [4] |
Duration of immature | 4 days | Not a very sensitive parameter, given the habitat fit to adult population |
Days between feeds | 3 days | 2-4 days [11] |
Human blood index | 0.95 for gambiae ss and funestus, variable for arabiensis | [69]. The uncertain value for arabiensis is the focus of detailed analyses. |
Indoor feeding | To explore effects, gambiae and funestus were set as highly endophilic and arabiensis was varied | Â |
Female eggs per female oviposition | 100 | A more accurate value would be closer to 80 |
Modification of egg batch size for infection | 0.8 | Â |
Adult life expectancy | 10 days | |
Transmission modifier b | 0.5 | [58] |
Mosquito infection modifier c | 0.2 | Will in reality depend on human infectiousness [36], here set to be uniform for simplicity |
Human feeding mortality | 0.1 | Uncertain |
Human feeding mortality for sporozoite positive | 0.15 | Uncertain |