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. 2012 May 15;6(5):e1615. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001615

Table 1. General default variable and parameter values for the Rogers model for two-host species trypanosomiasis [25].

Default
N1 Number of animals of species 1 300
N2 Number of animals of species 2 50
V Number of tsetse 5000
p 1 Proportion of tsetse bloodmeals from species 1 0.3
P 2 Proportion of tsetse bloodmeals from species 2 0.7
u Daily mortality rate of the flies 0.030
d Duration of feeding cycle in flies 4
a1 = p1/d, a2 = p2/d, m1 = V/N1, m2 = V/N2

See the original paper for further details and Table 2 for default parameter values specific for the different species of trypanosomes.