About the Authors

Peter Winskill

Contributed equally to this work with: Peter Winskill, Danilo O. Carvalho

Affiliations Medical Research Council Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, St Mary's Campus, London, United Kingdom, Oxitec Limited, Oxford, United Kingdom

Danilo O. Carvalho

Contributed equally to this work with: Peter Winskill, Danilo O. Carvalho

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia em Entomologia Molecular (INCT-EM), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Ilha do Fundão, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Margareth L. Capurro

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

Luke Alphey

Affiliations Oxitec Limited, Oxford, United Kingdom, The Pirbright Institute, Ash Road, Pirbright, Woking, United Kingdom, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Christl A. Donnelly

c.donnelly@imperial.ac.uk (CAD); Andrew.McKemey@oxitec.com (ARM)

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

Andrew R. McKemey

c.donnelly@imperial.ac.uk (CAD); Andrew.McKemey@oxitec.com (ARM)

Affiliation Oxitec Limited, Oxford, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

Authors affiliated with Oxitec Ltd are staff or students of Oxitec and have employment, studentship support and/or equity interest in Oxitec. Oxitec and the University of Oxford own intellectual property related to the subject matter of this study. All other authors declare no competing interests. This does not alter our adherence to all PLOS policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DOC MLC LA ARM. Performed the experiments: DOC MLC LA ARM. Analyzed the data: PW. Wrote the paper: PW DOC MLC LA CAD ARM.