About the Authors

Danilo O. Carvalho

Contributed equally to this work with: Danilo O. Carvalho, Andrew R. McKemey

Affiliations Oxitec Ltd, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, Departamento de Parasitologia, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil

Andrew R. McKemey

Contributed equally to this work with: Danilo O. Carvalho, Andrew R. McKemey

andrew.mckemey@oxitec.com

Affiliation Oxitec Ltd, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Luiza Garziera

Affiliation Moscamed Brasil, Juazeiro, Bahia, Brasil

Renaud Lacroix

Affiliation Oxitec Ltd, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Christl A. Donnelly

Affiliation Medical Research Council Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, St Mary's Campus, London, United Kingdom

Luke Alphey

Affiliations Oxitec Ltd, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kindgom, The Pirbright Institute, Pirbright, Woking, Surrey, United Kingdom

Aldo Malavasi

Affiliation Moscamed Brasil, Juazeiro, Bahia, Brasil

Margareth L. Capurro

Affiliations Departamento de Parasitologia, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil, Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia em Entomologia Molecular (INCT-EM), Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Those authors affiliated to Oxitec Ltd. (ARM, DOC, RL and LA) are/or were employees of this company, which therefore provided salary and other support for the research program. Also, such employees may have 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. LG, CAD, MLC, AM have no patent interests, shares, or share options in Oxitec or any other entity for this technology. This does not alter our adherence to all PLOS policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ARM DOC MLC LA AM. Performed the experiments: ARM DOC LG RL. Analyzed the data: ARM RL DOC CAD. Wrote the paper: ARM RL LA DOC MLC. Supervised research: ARM MLC LA AM.