Abbreviations and acronyms
Degree Celsius
Microlitre
Aedes
Bacillus thuringiensis var. israelensis
Centres for Disease Control and prevention
Chikungunya virus
Cytoplasmic incompatibility
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats
Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane
Dengue virus
Dengue 1 virus
Dengue 2 virus
Dengue 3 virus
Dengue 4 virus
Deoxyribonucleic acid
European Food Safety Authority
Entrinsic incubation period
Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay
Fluorescence in-situ hybridisation
Gramme per hectare
Gigabases (= 109 base pairs; genome size unit)
Genetically engineered
Homing endonuclease genes
International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses
Insect growth regulator
Incompatible insect technique
Insecticide resistance management
Indoor residual spraying
Indoor space-spraying
Integrated vector management
Knockdown resistance
Kilometre
Lateral gene transfer
Long-lasting insecticidal netting
Metre
Megabases (= 106 base pairs; genome size unit)
Mean distance travelled
Midgut escape barrier
Midgut
Midgut infection barrier
Miniature inverted repeat transposable element
Millilitre
Millimetre
Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide
NADH dehydrogenase subunit 4
Neovolcanic axis
Pan American Health Organization
Polymerase chain reaction
Piwi-interacting RNA (ribonucleic acid)
Quantitative trait locus [plural form: Q. t. loci]
Random amplified polymorphic DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid)
Restriction fragment length polymorphism
RNA (ribonucleic acid) interference
Sterile insect technique
Single nucleotide polymorphism
Sequence-tagged site
Transposable elements
Uriah Butler Highway (in Trinidad Island, Trinidad and Tobago)
Vector competence
World Health Organization
World Health Organization Pesticide Evaluation Scheme
Yellow fever virus
Zika virus