The effect of epidemics on genetic evolution.
Mathematical models of a vector-borne infectious disease acting on a host population consisting of three genotypes which differ in susceptibility to, recovery from, and death due to the disease are presented and analyzed. Singular perturbation techniques are used to obtain a single differential equation describing the slow time evolution of gene frequencies.
D005075:Biological Evolution; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D005787:Gene Frequency; D007109:Immunity; D008433:Mathematics