Hindrances to bistable front propagation: application to \textit{Wolbachia} invasion

DOI10.1007/S00285-017-1181-YMaRDI QIDQ1742480zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Martin Strugarek, Nicolas Vauchelet, Grégoire Nadin

Publication date 11 April 2018

Published in Journal of Mathematical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.05381

zbMATH Keywords

bistable reaction-diffusionfront propagationshooting argumentwave-blockingWolbachia

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Positive solutions to nonlinear boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations (34B18) Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs (35B40) Traveling wave solutions (35C07) Reaction-diffusion equations (35K57) Population dynamics (general) (92D25)

Abstract: We study the biological situation when an invading population propagates and replaces an existing population with different characteristics. For instance, this may occur in the presence of a vertically transmitted infection causing a cytoplasmic effect similar to the Allee effect (e.g. Wolbachia in Aedes mosquitoes): the invading dynamics we model is bistable. After quantification of the propagules, a second question of major interest is the invasive power. How far can such an invading front go, and what can stop it? We rigorously show that a heterogeneous environment inducing a strong enough population gradient can stop an invading front, which will converge in this case to a stable front. We characterize the critical population jump, and also prove the existence of unstable fronts above the stable (blocking) fronts. Being above the maximal unstable front enables an invading front to clear the obstacle and propagate further. We are particularly interested in the case of artificial Wolbachia infection, used as a tool to fight arboviruses.

Review text

The authors study the biological situation when an invading population propagates and replaces an existing population with different characteristics. They aim at quantifying the propagules and the invasive power. They rigorously show that a heterogeneous environment inducing a strong enough population gradient can stop an invading front, which will converge in this case to a stable front. They characterize the critical population jump, and also prove the existence of unstable fronts above the stable (blocking) fronts. They are particularly interested in the case of artificial Wolbachia infection, used as a tool to fight arboviruses. The main results are the characterization of the asymptotic behavior of p in two settings: when \(N\) (total population density) only depends on \(x\) and when \(\partial x \log N\) is equal to a constant time the characteristic function of an interval. Overall, two possible sets of asymptotic behaviors appear. Also they demand a numerical conjecture that for generic bistable function, there exists exactly two barriers.

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