Polyandry: A threat or an opportunity for the sterile insect technique?

doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1014212

Polyandry: A threat or an opportunity for the sterile insect technique?

Fig 2

Bifurcation diagram showing the larval density at equilibrium L^* as a function of the sterilized male release rate .

The equilibria of system (Eq 2) correspond to the intersection points between the function (Eq 8) (blue, First scenario = Without MM, when , or orange, Last scenario, when and ) and the constant. Stability is represented by solid lines, and unstable equilibria are shown by dashed lines. The eradication thresholds for each case are also shown (blue or orange dotted lines). The diagram was generated by setting the parameters to the values listed in Table 2.

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