About the Authors
- Luca Facchinelli
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* E-mail: luca.facchinelli@uniroma1.it (LF); twscott@ucdavis.edu (TWS)
Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America
- Laura Valerio
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Affiliations Department of Entomology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, Istituto Pasteur-Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Università la Sapienza, Rome, Italy
- Janine M. Ramsey
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Affiliation Centro Regional de Investigación en Salud Pública, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Tapachula, Chiapas, México
- Fred Gould
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Affiliations Department of Entomology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Rachael K. Walsh
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Affiliations Department of Entomology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, Department of Entomology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
- Guillermo Bond
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Affiliation Centro Regional de Investigación en Salud Pública, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Tapachula, Chiapas, México
- Michael A. Robert
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Affiliation Biomathematics Graduate Program and Department of Mathematics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
- Alun L. Lloyd
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Affiliations Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Biomathematics Graduate Program and Department of Mathematics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
- Anthony A. James
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Affiliation Departments of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics and Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America
- Luke Alphey
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Affiliations Oxitec Ltd., Abingdon, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Thomas W. Scott
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* E-mail: luca.facchinelli@uniroma1.it (LF); twscott@ucdavis.edu (TWS)
Affiliations Department of Entomology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
Competing Interests
Luke Alphey is an employee of Oxitec Ltd, which provided salary and other support for the research program. Also, such employee has shares or share options in Oxitec Ltd. Both Oxitec Ltd. and Oxford University have one or more patents or patent applications related to the subject of this paper.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: LF LV TWS JMR GB FG LA AAJ. Performed the experiments: LF LV RKW. Analyzed the data: LV LF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MAR ALL FG. Wrote the paper: LF LV TWS FG. Supervised research: TWS JMR AAJ. Revised the manuscript critically adding important intellectual content: AAJ. Acquisition of funding: AAJ.