Abstract
In this paper, we consider an aspect of the intra-specific brood- parasitism with a mathematical modelling. As in case of moorhen Gallinula chloropus, the case dealt with in this paper in such that just a part of the whole population has the parasitizing behaviour against the individuals belonging to another part of non-parasite subpopulation that does not have such behaviour. Analysing the expected fitness gain from the brood- parasitism, we consider the condition in order that parasite individuals coexist with nonparasite ones within a population. From the mathematical modelling analysis, it is shown that the stable equilibrium frequency of parasite individuals within a population, if exists, depends on the difference among individuals in terms of the individual quality reflected to the survival probability of bred offsprings.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 315-338 |
| Number of pages | 24 |
| Journal | Mathematical Biosciences |
| Volume | 156 |
| Issue number | 1-2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1999 Mar 1 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Brood-parasitism
- Coexistence
- Fitness
- Mathematical modelling
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Statistics and Probability
- Modelling and Simulation
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all)
- Immunology and Microbiology(all)
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences(all)
- Applied Mathematics