An agent-based model of tsetse fly response to seasonal climatic drivers: Assessing the impact on sleeping sickness transmission rates

• Simon Alderton ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: s.alderton@lancaster.ac.uk

  Affiliations Geography and Environment, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom, Centre for Health Informatics, Computing and Statistics (CHICAS), Lancaster Medical School, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5645-2338

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• Ewan T. Macleod,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Infection and Pathway Medicine, Biomedical Sciences, Edinburgh Medical School, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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• Neil E. Anderson,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies and the Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, Roslin, United Kingdom

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• Gwen Palmer,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Independent Researcher, Leyland, Lancashire, United Kingdom

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• Noreen Machila,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Infection and Pathway Medicine, Biomedical Sciences, Edinburgh Medical School, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Department of Disease Control, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia

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• Martin Simuunza,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Disease Control, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia

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• Susan C. Welburn,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Infection and Pathway Medicine, Biomedical Sciences, Edinburgh Medical School, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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• Peter M. Atkinson

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Geography and Environment, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom, Centre for Health Informatics, Computing and Statistics (CHICAS), Lancaster Medical School, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom, School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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