Table 2. Mating function for specific distribution patterns; is the hypergeometric function, - modified Bessel functions of order m.

Distribution	Mating function	Prevalence of matedcouples (host infectivity)
Uniform with mean w
Poisson with mean w
NB of mean w, aggregation k

(abbreviation: NB, negative binomial, see S3 Appendix in S1 Text for details).