Close-kin mark-recapture methods to estimate demographic parameters of mosquitoes
Fig 6
Pseudo-likelihood components to estimate NA and μA for Ae. aegypti.
Violin plots depict estimates of NA (A) and μA (B) for the optimal sampling scheme determined in Fig 4 (1,000 adult females collected biweekly over a three month period, i.e., ca. 40 adult females per collection) and various included pseudo-likelihood components. The simulated population consists of 3,000 adult Ae. aegypti with bionomic parameters listed in Table 1. Boxes depict median and interquartile ranges of 100 simulation-and-analysis replicates for each scenario, thin lines represent 5% and 95% quantiles, points represent outliers, and kernel density plots are superimposed. Adult parameter estimates inferred from combined parent-offspring and full-sibling pseudo-likelihood components are more accurate than those inferred from either pseudo-likelihood component in isolation and more accurate than those inferred by inclusion of half-sibling pairs. In panels (C-D), parent-offspring and full-sibling pseudo-likelihood components are used and cases of biweekly sampling and sampling every two days are compared, both where the sampling day is known and where the sampling day is only known within the interval between samples.