About the Authors

Roya Elaine Haghighat-Khah

Contributed equally to this work with: Roya Elaine Haghighat-Khah, Tim Harvey-Samuel

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Tim Harvey-Samuel

Contributed equally to this work with: Roya Elaine Haghighat-Khah, Tim Harvey-Samuel

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Arthropod Genetics Group, The Pirbright Institute, Woking, United Kingdom

Sanjay Basu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Arthropod Genetics Group, The Pirbright Institute, Woking, United Kingdom

Oliver StJohn

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Sarah Scaife

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Immunocore, Park Drive, United Kingdom

Sebald Verkuijl

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Arthropod Genetics Group, The Pirbright Institute, Woking, United Kingdom

Erica Lovett

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Arthropod Genetics Group, The Pirbright Institute, Woking, United Kingdom

Luke Alphey

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Luke.alphey@pirbright.ac.uk

Affiliation Arthropod Genetics Group, The Pirbright Institute, Woking, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: REH-K and OS were BBSRC Industrial CASE DPhil students at the University of Oxford and Oxitec Ltd during this research project carried out between 2009 and 2013. SS was a member of staff at Oxitec Ltd. During this period. Some experiments were carried out at Oxitec Ltd. The funding agency had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of manuscript