The exposome in human evolution: from dust to diesel

BC Trumble, CE Finch - The Quarterly Review of Biology, 2019 - journals.uchicago.edu
Global exposures to air pollution and cigarette smoke are novel in human evolutionary
history and are associated with at least 12 million premature deaths per year. We investigate …

A systematic review of Aedes aegypti population dynamics models based on differential equations

S Migue, T Valentín, A Verónica - Acta Tropica, 2024 - Elsevier
The global spread of Aedes aegypti and the associated public health risk have stimulated
the development of several mathematical models to predict population dynamics in …

A Process-based Model with Temperature, Water, and Lab-derived Data Improves Predictions of Daily Culex pipiens/restuans Mosquito Density

DP Shutt, DW Goodsman, K Martinez… - Journal of Medical …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
While the number of human cases of mosquito-borne diseases has increased in North
America in the last decade, accurate modeling of mosquito population density has remained …

Modelling diapause in mosquito population growth

Y Lou, K Liu, D He, D Gao, S Ruan - Journal of mathematical biology, 2019 - Springer
Diapause, a period of arrested development caused by adverse environmental conditions,
serves as a key survival mechanism for insects and other invertebrate organisms in …

Aedes aegypti in Southern Brazil: Spatiotemporal Distribution Dynamics and Association with Climate and Environmental Factors

JG de Oliveira, SA Netto, EO Francisco… - Tropical Medicine and …, 2023 - mdpi.com
In Brazil, the mosquito Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti is considered the main vector of the
dengue, chikungunya, and Zika arbovirus transmission. Recent epidemiological studies in …

A periodic delay differential system for mosquito control with Wolbachia incompatible insect technique

K Liu, Y Lou - Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications, 2023 - Elsevier
Wolbachia incompatible insect technique (IIT) depends on releasing male-only Wolbachia-
infected mosquitoes to reduce/eradicate wild type mosquito populations. Mathematical …

A periodic Chikungunya model with virus mutation and transovarial transmission

Y Wang, Y Li, L Liu, X Liu - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, a Chikungunya dynamical model with virus mutation and transovarial
transmission is developed, which incorporates the effect of seasonal temperature changes …

Traveling waves for a diffusive mosquito-borne epidemic model with general incidence

K Wang, H Zhao, H Wang - Zeitschrift für angewandte Mathematik und …, 2022 - Springer
In this paper, we obtain the complete information about the existence and nonexistence of
traveling wave solution (TWS) for a reaction–diffusion model of mosquito-borne disease with …

Complex dynamics in tick-borne disease transmission: A Filippov-type control strategy model with multiple time delays

N Yu, X Zhang - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper presents a tick-borne disease transmission model with a Filippov-type control
strategy that involves spraying insecticides to kill ticks once the number of infected hosts …

Spatiotemporal patterns of dengue outbreaks in Sri Lanka

RAR Prabodanie, L Stone, S Schreider - Infectious Diseases, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Dengue occurs epidemically in Sri Lanka and every year, when the monsoon
season begins, health authorities warn on rising numbers of dengue cases. The popular …