Supplementary Figure 6: Wolbachia titers in colonies used for release in 2017 and 2018. | Nature Biotechnology

Supplementary Figure 6: Wolbachia titers in colonies used for release in 2017 and 2018.

From: Efficient production of male Wolbachia-infected Aedes aegypti mosquitoes enables large-scale suppression of wild populations

Supplementary Figure 6

(a) Wolbachia titers (ratio of Wolbachia genome copies to mosquito genome copies) in whole female mosquitoes from the WB1-CL1-BC5 backcross (yellow) and WB1-Waco (black) at different points in 2017. Each dot is an individual mosquito. A jump in Wolbachia titer occurred in July coincident with the colony collapse. (b) Same as (a), except Wolbachia titers measured in whole male mosquitoes. (c) Wolbachia titers in whole adult female mosquitoes across the 2018 season for the two release colonies. Each dot is the mean of ~96 independent, individual female mosquito titer ratios with the interquartile range indicated by the line. (d) Same as (c), except Wolbachia titers measured in whole male adult mosquitoes.

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