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. 2015 Apr 7;282(1804):20150065. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2015.0065

Table 1.

Functional forms for the per capita birth rates of susceptible (bS) and infected (bI) hosts and for the parasite-induced mortality rate (α) under each of the different combinations of resource and IP costs.

constitutive cost facultative cost
mortality IP bS(c) = bh(c) bS(c) = b
bI(c) = bh(c) bI(c) = bh(c)
α = γɛ + f(ɛ, c) α = γɛ + f(ɛ, c)
fecundity IP bS(c) = bh(c) bS(c) = b
bI(c) = bh(c) − g(ε, c) bI(c) = bh(c) − g(ε, c)
α = γɛ α = γɛ