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where NS represents the survivors after Pt parasites have searched for Nt hosts resulting in P+ 1 parasite progenyt. All assumptions about parasite searching behaviour are here contained in the functionfPt,Nt. If we consider the simplest case where the parasite population is specific and synchronized temporally with its host population, we can write the following generalized model for a host-parasite interaction:
Hassell et al. (Mon,) studied this question.