About the Authors

Roya Elaine Haghighat-Khah

Current address: Department of Biological Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Affiliations Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Oxitec Limited, Oxford, United Kingdom

Sarah Scaife

Affiliation Oxitec Limited, Oxford, United Kingdom

Sara Martins

Current address: Department of Biological Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Affiliations Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Oxitec Limited, Oxford, United Kingdom

Oliver St John

Affiliations Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Oxitec Limited, Oxford, United Kingdom

Kelly Jean Matzen

luke.alphey@pirbright.ac.uk (LA); kelly.matzen@oxitec.com (KJM)

Affiliation Oxitec Limited, Oxford, United Kingdom

Neil Morrison

Affiliation Oxitec Limited, Oxford, United Kingdom

Luke Alphey

luke.alphey@pirbright.ac.uk (LA); kelly.matzen@oxitec.com (KJM)

Current address: Pirbright Institute, Woking, United Kingdom

Affiliations Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Oxitec Limited, Oxford, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

Those authors affiliated with Oxitec Ltd. are or have been employees or students of this company. Oxitec supplied salary and other support for the research program. Also, some of these authors have shares or share options in Oxitec Ltd. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: REH-K SM OS SS LA. Performed the experiments: REH-K SM OS SS. Analyzed the data: REH-K SM OS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SS KJM NM LA REH-K. Wrote the paper: REH-K LA. Edited the paper: SM SS REH-K KJM NM LA.