Modelling pulsed releases for sterile insect techniques: fitness costs of sterile and transgenic males and the effects on mosquito dynamics
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Steven M. White*†, Pejman Rohani and Steven M. Sait Institute of Integrative and Comparative Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK; 2 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; 3 Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; and Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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