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Vincent A. A. Jansen et al., 2008, Proceeding of the Royal Society

Mathematical descriptions of the population dynamics of Wolbachia generally ignore the stochastic effects associated with finite population size. This paper shows that if many infected individuals are released such effects are indeed negligible for population sizes on the order of hundreds.

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