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. 2017 Dec 13;120(3):266–281. doi: 10.1038/s41437-017-0022-5

Table 1.

Glossary of notation

Symbol Definition
β Resource reallocation efficiency (proportion of the resources the killed males would have used that is reallocated to the surviving siblings)
F Relative fecundity of infected females
l CI CI level (proportion of offspring killed in incompatible matings)
p Frequency of females of a given infection status
p^ Equilibrium infection frequency
p Beneficial infection frequency
p CI CI infection frequency
p CI+MK CI+MK double-infection frequency
p MK MK infection frequency
p U Frequency of uninfected females
p ini Initial infection frequency
p thr Threshold infection frequency
R Fitness compensation (surviving offspring’s fitness increase through resource reallocation)
t Maternal transmission efficiency (proportion of infected offspring produced by an infected female)
v Male viability in the face of MK