Local introduction and heterogeneous spatial spread of dengue-suppressing Wolbachia through an urban population of Aedes aegypti.

Local introduction and heterogeneous spatial spread of dengue-suppressing Wolbachia through an urban population of Aedes aegypti.

Dengue-suppressing Wolbachia strains are promising tools for arbovirus control, particularly as they have the potential to self-spread following local introductions. To test this, we followed the frequency of the transinfected Wolbachia strain wMel through Ae. aegypti in Cairns, Australia, following...

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Main Authors: Tom L Schmidt, Nicholas H Barton, Gordana Rašić, Andrew P Turley, Brian L Montgomery, Inaki Iturbe-Ormaetxe, Peter E Cook, Peter A Ryan, Scott A Ritchie, Ary A Hoffmann, Scott L O'Neill, Michael Turelli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-05-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2001894

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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2001894

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