%0 Journal Article
%T How do biting disease vectors behaviourally respond to host availability?
%A Laith Yakob
%J Archive of "Parasites & Vectors".
%D 2016
%R 10.1186/s13071-016-1762-4
%X Ecological theory predicts a diverse range of functional responses of species to resource availability; but in the context of human blood consumption by disease vectors, a simplistic, linear response is ubiquitously assumed. A simple and flexible model formulation is presented that extends the Holling¡¯s Types to account for a wider range of qualitatively distinct behaviours, and used to examine the impact of different vector responses to the relative availability of multiple blood-host species
%K Behaviour ecology
%K Functional response
%K Vector-borne disease
%K Malaria
%K Chagas disease
%K Lyme disease
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5000478/