Modelling the Wolbachia incompatible insect technique: strategies for effective mosquito population elimination.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Wolbachia incompatible insect technique (IIT) shows promise as a method for eliminating populations of invasive mosquitoes such as Aedes aegypti (Linnaeus) (Diptera: Culicidae) and reducing the incidence of vector-borne diseases such as dengue, chikungunya and Zika. Successful implementation of this biological control strategy relies on high-fidelity separation of male from female insects in mass production systems for inundative release into landscapes. Processes for sex-separating mosquitoes are typically error-prone and laborious, and IIT programmes run the risk of releasing Wolbachia-infected females and replacing wild mosquito populations.

Results

We introduce a simple Markov population process model for studying mosquito populations subjected to a Wolbac

SUBMITTER: Pagendam DE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7646074 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature