Cytoplasmic incompatibility management to support Incompatible Insect Technique against Aedes albopictus

Parasites & Vectors

Table 1 Variables used to simulate the population dynamics which were common to the two Ae. albopictus populations as not related to the Wolbachia infection type. Data are specifically referred to S_ANG (= Y infection type) and ARwP (= X infection type) Ae. albopictus

Variables	Description	Calculation	Values
Variables	Description	Calculation	Based on literature	Measured in laboratory	Set in experiments and model simulations^c
m	Female fecundity (Mean number of daughters produced by a female)	To be set based on the mean viable eggs produced per blood meal or long life		19.88 ± 1.12	20 ± 2
S ₀	Immature survival in absence of intraspecific competition (%)	To be set based on laboratory data	̴̴20^a	84.91 ± 1.12	depending on the experiments
γ	Competition type (=1 if contest, >1 if scramble)	Estimated based on literature	>1^b		1.5
α	Constant relative to the carrying capacity of the population	Estimated based on the experimental system	Depending on the context	̴̴̴ 0.0002	0.0002

^aResults regarding Ae. albopictus in nature [58]
^bValue obtained from literature [29]
^cSpecific values were attributed to the variables to run the model as corresponding to the mean values obtained from previous research or specific experiments involving S_ANG and ARwP Ae. albopictus
Abbreviations: S_ANG Wild-type Ae. albopictus with natural Wolbachia infection, ARwP wPip Wolbachia-infected Ae. albopictus

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