Sex-structured dynamics of mosquitoes involving sterile males

Bliman Pierre-Alexandre, Cardona-Salgado Daiver, Dumont Yves, Vasilieva Olga. 2018. Sex-structured dynamics of mosquitoes involving sterile males. Biomath Communications, 5 (1), suppl. BIOMATH 2018, 1 p. Biomath 2018: International Conference on Mathematical Methods and Models in Biosciences and a School for Young Scientists, Sofia, Bulgarie, 24 Juin 2018/29 Juin 2018.

Résumé : In many tropical and subtropical countries, the epidemic outbreaks of vector-borne viral infections such as dengue, chikungunya and zika, are strongly correlated with the presence and abundance of Aedes mosquitoes that act as vector transmitters of these viral diseases. In absence of vaccine, combatting mosquito population still remains the primary method for control of vector-borne diseases. We here focus on one particular method for controlling the population of wild mosquitoes, known as Sterile Insect Technique (SIT), which consists of releasing males either sterilized by irradiation, or infected by Wolbachia, a natural parasite. In both cases, the released males will mate with wild females that will have no offspring, causing a decay in the wild mosquito population. In order to assess the impact of SIT on the population dynamics of wild mosquitoes, we propose a sex-structured model presenting interesting features, such as bistable behavior with respect to release intensity. We provide a threshold condition that governs the system evolution toward either positive equilibrium (showing considerable reduction of the wild mosquito population) or mosquito-free equilibrium (eradication) during continuous or periodic impulsive releases of sterile males. This threshold condition indicateshow to plan the releases in order to achieve eventual extinction of the wild mosquitoes in the target locality, highlighting a trade-off between "affordable'' intensity of the releases and ``available'' time and periodicity that allow to move the system state towards the basin of attraction of the mosquito-free equilibrium. Numerical simulations will be provided to illustrate our results and for discussions.

Mots-clés libres : Sex-structured model, Vector control, Mathematical modelling, Aedes, Sterile insect technique, Impulsive release, Ordinary differential equation, Impulsive differential equation

Classification Agris : L10 - Génétique et amélioration des animaux
L53 - Physiologie animale - Reproduction
L72 - Organismes nuisibles des animaux

Champ stratégique Cirad : Axe 4 (2014-2018) - Santé des animaux et des plantes

Auteurs et affiliations

• Bliman Pierre-Alexandre, Université Paris-Sorbonne (FRA)
• Cardona-Salgado Daiver, Universidad Autónoma de Occidente (COL)
• Dumont Yves, CIRAD-BIOS-UMR AMAP (FRA) ORCID: 0000-0003-4817-685X - auteur correspondant
• Vasilieva Olga, Universidad del Valle (COL)

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