How does competition among wild type mosquitoes influence the performance of Aedes aegypti and dissemination of Wolbachia pipientis?

• 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)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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...