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August  2018, 15(4): 961-991. doi: 10.3934/mbe.2018043

Quantifying the survival uncertainty of Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes in a spatial model

Martin Strugarek 1,2,, , Nicolas Vauchelet 3, and  Jorge P. Zubelli 4,

1. 

AgroParisTech, 16 rue Claude Bernard, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France
2. 

Sorbonne Université, Université Paris-Diderot SPC, CNRS, INRIA, Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, équipe Mamba, F-75005 Paris, France
3. 

LAGA - UMR 7539 Institut Galilée, Université Paris 13, 99, avenue Jean-Baptiste Clément 93430 Villetaneuse, France
4. 

IMPA, Estrada Dona Castorina, 110 Jardim Botânico 22460-320, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

* Corresponding author: M. Strugarek.

Received  July 24, 2017 Accepted  January 03, 2018 Published  March 2018

Artificial releases of Wolbachia-infected Aedes mosquitoes have been under study in the past yearsfor fighting vector-borne diseases such as dengue, chikungunya and zika.Several strains of this bacterium cause cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI) and can also affect their host's fecundity or lifespan, while highly reducing vector competence for the main arboviruses.

We consider and answer the following questions: 1) what should be the initial condition (i.e. size of the initial mosquito population) to have invasion with one mosquito release source? We note that it is hard to have an invasion in such case. 2) How many release points does one need to have sufficiently high probability of invasion? 3) What happens if one accounts for uncertainty in the release protocol (e.g. unequal spacing among release points)?

We build a framework based on existing reaction-diffusion models for the uncertainty quantification in this context,obtain both theoretical and numerical lower bounds for the probability of release successand give new quantitative results on the one dimensional case.

Keywords: Reaction-diffusion equation, Wolbachia, uncertainty quantification, population replacement, mosquito release protocol.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35K57, 35B40, 92D25; Secondary: 60H30.
Citation: Martin Strugarek, Nicolas Vauchelet, Jorge P. Zubelli. Quantifying the survival uncertainty of Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes in a spatial model. Mathematical Biosciences & Engineering, 2018, 15 (4) : 961-991. doi: 10.3934/mbe.2018043
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http://www.cdc.gov/zika/transmission/index.html, 2016. Google Scholar

[2]

L. Alphey, Genetic control of mosquitoes, Annual Review of Entomology, 59 (2014), 205-224.  doi: 10.1146/annurev-ento-011613-162002.  Google Scholar

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L. Alphey, A. McKemey, D. Nimmo, O. M. Neira, R. Lacroix, K. Matzen and C. Beech, Genetic control of Aedes mosquitoes, Pathogens and Global Health, 107 (2013), 170-179.  doi: 10.1179/2047773213Y.0000000095.  Google Scholar

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[9]

M. H. T. Chan and P. S. Kim, Modeling a Wolbachia invasion using a slow-fast dispersal reaction-diffusion approach, Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 75 (2013), 1501-1523.  doi: 10.1007/s11538-013-9857-y.  Google Scholar

[10]

P. R. Crain, J. W. Mains, E. Suh, Y. Huang, P. H. Crowley and S. L. Dobson, Wolbachia infections that reduce immature insect survival: Predicted impacts on population replacement, BMC Evolutionary Biology, 11 (2011), p290. doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-11-290.  Google Scholar

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G. L. C. Dutra, L. M. B. dos Santos, E. P. Caragata, J. B. L. Silva, D. A. M. Villela, R. Maciel-de Freitas and L. A. Moreira, From Lab to Field: The influence of urban landscapes on the invasive potential of Wolbachia in Brazilian Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 9 (2015), e0003689. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003689.  Google Scholar

[13]

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[14]

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A. A. Hoffmann, B. L. Montgomery, J. Popovici, I. Iturbe-Ormaetxe, P. H. Johnson, F. Muzzi, M. Greenfield, M. Durkan, Y. S. Leong, Y. Dong, H. Cook, J. Axford, A. G. Callahan, N. Kenny, C. Omodei, E. A. McGraw, P. A. Ryan, S. A. Ritchie, M. Turelli and S. L. O'Neill, Successful establishment of Wolbachia in Aedes populations to suppress dengue transmission, Nature, 476 (2011), 454-457.  doi: 10.1038/nature10356.  Google Scholar

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H. Hughes and N. F. Britton, Modeling the use of Wolbachia to control dengue fever transmission, Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 75 (2013), 796-818.  doi: 10.1007/s11538-013-9835-4.  Google Scholar

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[23]

R. Maciel-de Freitas, R. Souza-Santos, C. T. Codeço and R. Lourenço-de Oliveira, Influence of the spatial distribution of human hosts and large size containers on the dispersal of the mosquito Aedes aegypti within the first gonotrophic cycle, Medical and Veterinary Entomology, 24 (2010), 74-82.  doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2915.2009.00851.x.  Google Scholar

[24]

H. Matano and P. Poláčik, Dynamics of nonnegative solutions of one-dimensional reaction-diffusion equations with localized initial data. Part i: A general quasiconvergence theorem and its consequences, Communications in Partial Differential Equations, 41 (2016), 785-811.  doi: 10.1080/03605302.2016.1156697.  Google Scholar

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M. Otero, N. Schweigmann and H. G. Solari, A stochastic spatial dynamical model for Aedes aegypti, Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 70 (2008), 1297-1325.  doi: 10.1007/s11538-008-9300-y.  Google Scholar

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T. Ouyang and J. Shi, Exact multiplicity of positive solutions for a class of semilinear problems, Journal of Differential Equations, 146 (1998), 121-156.  doi: 10.1006/jdeq.1998.3414.  Google Scholar

[29]

T. Ouyang and J. Shi, Exact multiplicity of positive solutions for a class of semilinear problem, Ⅱ, Journal of Differential Equations, 158 (1999), 94-151.  doi: 10.1016/S0022-0396(99)80020-5.  Google Scholar

[30]

P. Poláčik, Threshold solutions and sharp transitions for nonautonomous parabolic equations on $\mathbb{R}^N$, Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, 199 (2011), 69-97.  doi: 10.1007/s00205-010-0316-8.  Google Scholar

[31]

S. Rouhani and N. Barton, Speciation and the ''Shifting Balance" in a continuous population, Theoretical Population Biology, 31 (1987), 465-492.  doi: 10.1016/0040-5809(87)90016-5.  Google Scholar

[32]

M. Strugarek and N. Vauchelet, Reduction to a single closed equation for 2 by 2 reaction-diffusion systems of Lotka-Volterra type, SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, 76 (2016), 2060-2080.  doi: 10.1137/16M1059217.  Google Scholar

[33]

M. Turelli, Cytoplasmic incompatibility in populations with overlapping generations, Evolution, 64 (2010), 232-241.  doi: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00822.x.  Google Scholar

[34]

F. Vavre and S. Charlat, Making (good) use of Wolbachia: What the models say, Current Opinion in Microbiology, 15 (2012), 263-268.  doi: 10.1016/j.mib.2012.03.005.  Google Scholar

[35]

D. A. M. Villela, C. T. Codeço, F. Figueiredo, G. A. Garcia, R. Maciel-de Freitas and C. J. Struchiner, A Bayesian hierarchical model for estimation of abundance and spatial density of Aedes aegypti, PLoS ONE, 10 (2015), e0123794. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0123794.  Google Scholar

[36]

T. Walker, P. H. Johnson, L. A. Moreira, I. Iturbe-Ormaetxe, F. D. Frentiu, C. J. McMeniman, Y. S. Leong, Y. Dong, J. Axford, P. Kriesner, A. L. Lloyd, S. A. Ritchie, S. L. O'Neill and A. A. Hoffmann, The wMel Wolbachia strain blocks dengue and invades caged Aedes aegypti populations, Nature, 476 (2011), 450-453.  doi: 10.1038/nature10355.  Google Scholar

[37]

H. L. Yeap, P. Mee, T. Walker, A. R. Weeks, S. L. O'Neill, P. Johnson, S. A. Ritchie, K. M. Richardson, C. Doig, N. M. Endersby and A. A. Hoffmann, Dynamics of the "Popcorn" Wolbachia infection in outbred Aedes aegypti informs prospects for mosquito vector control, Genetics, 187 (2011), 583-595.  doi: 10.1534/genetics.110.122390.  Google Scholar

[38]

H. L. Yeap, G. Rasic, N. M. Endersby-Harshman, S. F. Lee, E. Arguni, H. Le Nguyen and A. A. Hoffmann, Mitochondrial DNA variants help monitor the dynamics of Wolbachia invasion into host populations, Heredity, 116 (2016), 265-276.  doi: 10.1038/hdy.2015.97.  Google Scholar

[39]

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Figure 1.  Profile of $f$ defined in (2) (left) and of its anti-derivative $F$ (right) with parameters given by (5).
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Figure 2.  Time dynamics with three different initial releases belonging to the set $RP_{50}^2(N)$ of (10), with $N/(N+N_0) = 0.75$. Integration is performed on the domain $[-L, L]$ with $L = 50 \textrm{km}$. The release box is plotted in dashed red on the first picture of each configuration. Left: Release box $[-2 L/3, 2 L/3]^2$. Center: Release box $[-L/2, L/2]^2$. Right: Release box $[-L/12.5, L/12.5]^2$. From top to bottom: increasing time $t \in \{0, 1, 25, 50, 75\}$, in days. The color indicates the value of $p$ (with the scale on the right).
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Figure 3.  Comparison of minimal invasion radii $R_{\alpha}$ (obtained by energy) in dashed line and $L_{\alpha}$ (obtained by critical bubbles) in solid line, varying with the maximal infection frequency level $\alpha$. The scale is such that $\sigma=1$.
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Figure 4.  Two $G_{\sigma}$ profiles and their sum (in thick line). The level $G_{\sigma} (0)$ is the dashed line. On the left, $h=\sqrt{2\log(2)\sigma}$. On the right, $h>\sqrt{2\log(2)\sigma}$.
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Figure 5.  Under-estimation $\beta^{\lambda, R^*} (-L, L)$ of introduction success probability for $L$ ranging from $R^*/2 = 5.49$ to $3 R^*/2 = 16.47$. The seven curves correspond to increasing number of release points. (From bottom to top: $20$ to $80$ release points).
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Figure 6.  Effect of losing the constant $2 \sqrt{2 \log(2)}$ in Proposition 6: under-estimation $\beta^{\lambda, R^*} (-L, L)$ of introduction success probability for $L$ ranging from $R^*/2 = 5.49$ to $3 R^*/2 = 16.47$, with $80$ release points.
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