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A Spatial Model of Mosquito Host-Seeking Behavior

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The proportion of mosquitoes finding a host within 150 s.

The black bars are the results for a random walk (RW) without wind and , the gray for the gradient method (G) of concentration sensing, and the white for the sampling method (S) of concentration sensing. UW = upwind plume finding, DW = downwind plume finding, and CW = crosswind plume finding. The thin error bars are standard deviations. If the simulation is allowed to progress beyond 150 s, then no appreciable changes occur in the results for the host-seeking methods, but the random walk continues to accrue contacts.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002500.g004