Title :
The Effect of Individual Movement on Host-Parasite Interactions
Author :
Zhang, Fen-Fen ; Jin, Zhen
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Math., North Univ. of China, Taiyuan, China
Abstract :
In this paper, we study the effect of susceptible hosts movements on parasites invasion and host persistence and extinction. The results indicate that it is more easier for parasites to invade if increase the movement rate of susceptible hosts. But, reduce the chance of host extinction.
Keywords :
approximation theory; biomechanics; diseases; ecology; host extinction; host persistence; host-parasite interactions; pair approximation; parasites invasion; population persistence; susceptible hosts movement; Biological system modeling; Bridges; Differential equations; Lattices; Mathematics; Nearest neighbor searches;
Conference_Titel :
Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering , 2009. ICBBE 2009. 3rd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2901-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2902-8
DOI :
10.1109/ICBBE.2009.5163598
