Thermal reaction norm and limits for the development and survival of the Asian bush mosquito. Cumulative female survival per day assessed over a range of 14 constant temperatures is shown. The solid black line represents the fitted curve calculated with Briere et al.  eq. 1. The function has the following form: cumulative female survival y = aT(T-Tmin)(Tmax-T)1/m with a, m: empirical constants (determined during model selection; Additional file 1: Figure S2), Abbreviations: T, temperature; Tmin, minimum temperature for cumulative female survival; Tmax, maximum temperature for cumulative female survival; Topt, optimum temperature for cumulative female survival calculated with the first derivative equation dy/dT = 0