Effect of Rising Temperature on Lyme Disease: Ixodes scapularis Population Dynamics and Borrelia burgdorferi Transmission and Prevalence

Figure 1

Compartment model for I. scapularis and host population and disease dynamics. (a) The life cycle of I. scapularis as described by equations (1)–(17). Feeding populations are split according to host type. Temperature-dependent maturation transitions are indicated in orange. (b) Host population and disease dynamics. Disease transitions require vector populations shown in this figure.

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