Predicting the spread and persistence of genetically modified dominant sterile male mosquitoes

Parasites & Vectors

Table 2 Summary of the MRR experiments conducted by Epopa et al. [20] in Burkina Faso

MRR	Date	Release site	GPS coordinates		N mosquitoes released	N mosquitoes captured	Distance (m)
MRR	Date	Release site	Longitude	Latitude	N mosquitoes released	N mosquitoes captured	Distance (m)
1	2013-10-09	A	− 4.4724	11.2347	1146	32	140
1		B	− 4.4755	11.2342	1158	9	344
1		C	− 4.4718	11.2318	1103	6	205
2	2014-05-07	A	− 4.4724	11.2347	1878	6	94
2		B	− 4.4755	11.2342	1655	1	266
2		C	− 4.4718	11.2318	1734	1	193
3	2014-09-04	A	− 4.4724	11.2347	1665	56	133
3		B	− 4.4755	11.2342	1673	4	440
3		C	− 4.4718	11.2318	1684	13	205
4	2015-04-09	A	− 4.4724	11.2347	2107	1	55
4		B	− 4.4755	11.2342	2013	3	386
4		C	− 4.4718	11.2318	1953	18	190
5	2015-10-09	C	− 4.4724	11.2347	5992	18	141

The last column presents the average distance for recapture (in meters). We use the results of the first four experiments to parameterise our model and calculate Bayes factor for expert-derived priors, and use the fifth MRR experiment to validate the model predictions

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