Figure 6.

Relative competent vector density in populations where maintenance releases occur when the antipathogen gene has a fitness cost of c_A = 0.2. Male-only R&R (A), female-killing (FK) (B), and anti-pathogen (AP) (C) releases were conducted at a 1:1 (r = 1) release ratio until each population under control by the three different strategies reached the same density. The first dotted line represents the beginning of the original releases, and the dashed line represents the end of the original releases and the beginning of maintenance releases. Here, r_p is the fraction of the original releases ratio utilized in maintenance releases. That is, r_p = 1 represents continued releases at the same intensity as the original releases. All other parameter values are the default values listed in Table 2. Note the vertical axis is on a log scale.