CEPAVE 05420
CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS PARASITOLOGICOS Y DE VECTORES
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
artículos
Título:
Invariance of demographic parameters using total or viable eggs. Response to Chi, Mou, Lee and Smith
Autor/es:
HERNANDEZ SUAREZ, CARLOS M.; MEDONE, PAULA; RABINOVICH, JORGE EDUARDO
Revista:
JOURNAL OF APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY
Editorial:
WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC
Referencias:
Lugar: Londres; Año: 2016 vol. 140 p. 146 - 153
ISSN:
0931-2048
Resumen:
Recently Mou et al. (J. Appl. Entomol., 139, 2015) recommended that in population studies in which hatch rates vary with maternal age, demographic parameters should be calculated excluding unhatched eggs. A mathematical proof was provided to support this. In this note, we expose a flaw in their proof and show that the demographic parameters do not differ by considering either all eggs or only viable ones, as long as the beginning and end of a generation are defined accordingly.
