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Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz
ISSN: 1678-8060
EISSN: 1678-8060
Vol. 92, No. 2, 1997, pp. 281-286
Bioline Code: oc97055
Full paper language: English
Document type: Research Article
Document available free of charge

Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Vol. 92, No. 2, 1997, pp. 281-286

 en Diffusion model applied to postfeeding larval dispersal in blowflies (Diptera: Calliphoridae)
RC Bassanezi; MBF Leite; WAC Godoy; CJ Von Zuben; FJ Von Zuben & SF Dos Reis

Abstract

This paper presents a diffusion model of larval dispersal especifically
designed to account for particular aspects of postfeeding larval dispersal
from the food source in organisms such as blowflies. In these organisms the
dispersal of immatures includes two groups of individuals, those that are
actively migrating and those that have initiated the pupation process. The
classical diffusion equation in one dimension was modified to incorporate a
function which describes the burying of larvae to become pupae. The
analytical solution of this equation predicts oscillatory and monotonic
dispersal behaviors, which are observed in experimental populations of
blowfly species.

Keywords
Chrysomya megacephala - Chrysomya putoria - Cochliomyia macellaria - diffusion model - larval dispersal - blowflies

 
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