Bo Zheng

TL;DR: A field trial succeeded in eliminating populations of the mosquito Aedes albopictus through inundative mass release of incompatible Wolbachia-infected males, which were also irradiated to sterilize any accidentally-released females, and so prevent population replacement.

TL;DR: An index is introduced to quantify the dependence of suppression efficiency on parameters and yields a ranking of the sensitivity of all parameters, among which the adult mortality has the highest sensitivity and is considerably more sensitive than the natural larvae mortality.

TL;DR: It is found that Wolbachia in a completely infected population could be wiped out ultimately if the initial population size is small, and when the infection shortens the lifespan of infected females that would impede WolbachIA spreading, such a reversion phenomenon does not occur.

TL;DR: In this article, a reaction-diffusion model was proposed to describe the spatial Wolbachia spread dynamics for a mixed population of infected and uninfected mosquitoes, and the influence of diffusion on the infection dynamics was investigated by using linearization method, comparison principle and LeraySchauder degree theory.

TL;DR: A comprehensive model of difference equations is developed that incorporates mosquito age at the four developmental stages, egg diapause, larval density competition, and the meteorological data for temperature, precipitation, and humidity, to predict the mosquito abundance over time in southern China.