Table 1.

Temperature (T) dependent models to predict the extrinsic incubation period (EIP) of mosquito-borne pathogens and the blood meal digestion period (BMD)

Parameter	Equation	References
EIP Dirofilaria immitis	[(T-14)/130]/24	Ledesma and Harrington [46]
EIP Plasmodium vivax	[0.000126 × T × (T-14.244) × √(34.4-T)]/24	Cator et al. [29]
EIP West Nile virus	[−0.132 + 0.0092 × T)/24	Hartley et al. [17]
BMD	[(T-9.9)/36.5]/24	Lindsay et al. [32]