INVESTIGADORES
BELDOMENICO Pablo Martin
artículos
Título:
A myiasis model for Philornis torquans (Diptera:Muscidae) and Pitangus sulphuratus (Passeriformes:Tyrannidae)
Autor/es:
LOPEZ LR; IZQUIERDO A; MANZOLI DE; BELDOMENICO P; GIOVANINI L
Revista:
ECOLOGICAL MODELLING
Editorial:
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
Referencias:
Lugar: Amsterdam; Año: 2016 vol. 328 p. 62 - 71
ISSN:
0304-3800
Resumen:
The genus Philornis comprises neotropical parasitic flies thatparasites bird nestlings in their larval stage. The ecology of mostspecies of these parasitic flies is largely unknown. Here we present anepidemiological model that describes the behavior of parasite and hostpopulations. The model was validated with real data of nestlings of thebird community present in a 30ha area in Santa Fe, Argentina. It consistsof two weakly coupled population models, one for the larval populationand the other for the nestling population. It takes into account, amongother things, the importance of age structure for both populations, theimmune response rate on the host and larval survivor rate, the incidenceof larval load on host death rate, along with others. This work present asimple and intuitive way to represent the behavior of this complexbiological system and it is a good starting point for future studies.
