Deploying dengue-suppressing Wolbachia: Robust models predict slow but effective spatial spread in Aedes aegypti

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 115, Issue , 2017, Pages 45-60

  Turelli, Michael ^a   Barton, Nicholas H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AUSTRIA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Biocontrol; Bistable wave dynamics; Disease suppression; Population replacement; Population transformation; Zika

Indexed keywords

BIOCONTROL AGENT; CHIKUNGUNYA; CYTOPLASMIC INCOMPATIBILITY; DENGUE FEVER; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE SPREAD; DISEASE VECTOR; DISPERSAL; FITNESS; MOSQUITO; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DENSITY; VIRUS; ZIKA VIRUS DISEASE;

AUSTRALIA; CAIRNS; QUEENSLAND;

AEDES AEGYPTI; WOLBACHIA;

AEDES; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS; DISEASE CARRIER; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY; WOLBACHIA;

AEDES; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENTS; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS; DISEASE VECTORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 85018357671     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2017.03.003     Document Type: Article

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