About the Authors
- Michelle Walters
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Contributed equally to this work with: Michelle Walters, Neil I. Morrison
Affiliation Animal Plant Health and Inspection Service, Plant Protection and Quarantine, Centers for Plant Health Science and Technology, United States Department of Agriculture, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
- Neil I. Morrison
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Contributed equally to this work with: Michelle Walters, Neil I. Morrison
Affiliation Oxitec Limited, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
- John Claus
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Affiliation Animal Plant Health and Inspection Service, Plant Protection and Quarantine, Centers for Plant Health Science and Technology, United States Department of Agriculture, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
- Guolei Tang
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Affiliation Animal Plant Health and Inspection Service, Plant Protection and Quarantine, Centers for Plant Health Science and Technology, United States Department of Agriculture, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
- Caroline E. Phillips
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Affiliation Oxitec Limited, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
- Robin Young
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Affiliation Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
- Richard T. Zink
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Affiliations Animal Plant Health and Inspection Service, Plant Protection and Quarantine, Centers for Plant Health Science and Technology, United States Department of Agriculture, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America, Animal Plant Health and Inspection Service, Plant Protection and Quarantine, Centers for Plant Health Science and Technology, United States Department of Agriculture, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America
- Luke Alphey
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* E-mail: luke.alphey@oxitec.com
Affiliations Oxitec Limited, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
The authors have the following competing interest: Those authors affiliated to Oxitec Limited (Dr. Morrison, Dr. Phillips and Dr. Alphey) are or were employees of this company, which therefore provided salary and other support for the research program; these authors also have shares or share options in Oxitec Ltd. In addition, the engineered insect strain described is a product in development by Oxitec Ltd. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online on the guide for authors.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: NM MW JC LA RZ. Performed the experiments: MW JC GT CP. Analyzed the data: RY NM. Wrote the paper: NM MW LA.