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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Theor Popul Biol. 2010 Jun 19;78(2):93–108. doi: 10.1016/j.tpb.2010.06.005

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Illustration of the model structure. Hosts acquire infections by multinomially sampling m sporozoites from the parasite population according to their distribution in generation t. Selection occurs in the host population. Parasites are selected independently in each host. Gametocytes are taken by the mosquitos during their blood meals, and recombination occurs only between gametocytes originating from the same host (only gametocytes further participate in the transmission cycle). After recombination the parasite population is pooled together yielding the frequency distribution of sporozoites in generation t + 1.