Figure 3.

Suppression of egg hatch in populations of naturally superinfected Ae. albopictus (Hou) via releases of transfected HTR males. The circles and dashed line illustrate the egg hatch observed in population cage tests. The solid line illustrates the expected egg hatch assuming equal competitiveness of HTR and Hou males (Arunachalam & Curtis 1985). Estimations of the ratio of compatible : incompatible males in the cages (x-axis) assume that 10% of HTR males that are released into cages are uninfected due to incomplete maternal transmission.