Engineered Genetic Incompatibility (EGI) is an engineered extreme underdominance
genetic system wherein hybrid animals are not viable, functioning as a synthetic speciation
event. There are several strategies in which EGI could be leveraged for genetic biocontrol of
pest populations. We used an agent-based model of Drosophila suzukii (Spotted Wing
Drosophila) to determine how EGI would fare with high rates of endemic genetic resistance
alleles. We discovered a surprising failure mode wherein field-generated females convert an …

In the published article, there was an error in Table 1 as published. The Value: meaning at
Locus 2 (ie, second column from left, third row below header) was erroneously listed as “r:
wild-type”. Instead, it should have been listed as “p: wild-type “. The corrected Table 1 and its
caption appear below.