Inheritance Cube: RIDL (Release of Insects with Dominant Lethality)

This function creates a RIDL system. RIDL (Release of Insects with Dominant Lethality), is a form of SIT. Created by Oxitec, this is based on a positive feedback loop using the toxic tTAV gene, controlled under lab conditions by the TetO promoter. This has 2 alleles at 1 locus

  • W: Wild-type allele

  • R: OX513 RIDL allele

cubeRIDL(
  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

Value

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