cubeWolbachia: Inheritance Cube: Wolbachia

In MGDrivE: Mosquito Gene Drive Explorer

Description

This function creates an inheritance cube to model a Wolbachia infection. Wolbachia is a parasite that can infect mosquitoes. It biases its inheritance through cytoplasmic incompatibility.
This drive has 2 alleles at 1 locus:

• W: has Wolbachia

• w: does not have Wolbachia

Usage

cubeWolbachia(
  eta = NULL,
  phi = NULL,
  omega = NULL,
  xiF = NULL,
  xiM = NULL,
  s = NULL
)

Arguments

eta	Genotype-specific mating fitness
phi	Genotype-specific sex ratio at emergence
omega	Genotype-specific multiplicative modifier of adult mortality
xiF	Genotype-specific female pupatory success
xiM	Genotype-specific male pupatory success
s	Genotype-specific fractional reduction(increase) in fertility

Details

Cytoplasmic Incompatibility:

• male W cross female w -> all offspring die (complete penetrance)

• male w cross female W -> all offspring inherit Wolbachia

Value

Named list containing the inheritance cube, transition matrix, genotypes, wild-type allele, and all genotype-specific parameters.

MGDrivE documentation built on Oct. 23, 2020, 7:28 p.m.