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 functionf[Pt,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:
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