How does competition among wild type mosquitoes influence the performance of Aedes aegypti and dissemination of Wolbachia pipientis?
Wolbachia has been deployed in several countries to reduce transmission of dengue, Zika and chikungunya viruses. During releases, Wolbachia-infected females are likely to lay their eggs in local available breeding sites, which might already be colonized by local Aedes sp. mosquitoes. Therefore, ther...
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Main Authors: | Suellen de Oliveira (Author), Daniel Antunes Maciel Villela (Author), Fernando Braga Stehling Dias (Author), Luciano Andrade Moreira (Author), Rafael Maciel de Freitas (Author) |
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2017-10-01T00:00:00Z.
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