About the Authors

Anusha Panjwani

Affiliation The Pirbright Institute, Pirbright, Woking, Surrey, United Kingdom

Anthony Wilson

anthony.wilson@pirbright.ac.uk

Affiliation The Pirbright Institute, Pirbright, Woking, Surrey, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: since March 2015, AW has received funding by BBSRC to develop insect population models which could be used to help improve release strategies for GM insect vectors (grant reference BB/M017567/1). This grant involves regular meetings with scientists at Oxitec Ltd. Neither the funder nor Oxitec Ltd had any role in the decision to prepare or submit this manuscript.