Table 1 Sella score of blood meal digestion, DNA extraction protocol used, and blood meal origin identification success for the 347 female mosquitoes analysed
HotSHOT | QIAGEN kit | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mosquito species | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | Total |
Anopheles atroparvus | 19 | 15 | 17 | 10 | 16 | 27 | 20 | 20 | 16 | 8 | 3 | 171 |
Culex modestus | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
Culex perexiguus | 40 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 84 |
Culex pipiens | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 43 |
Culex theileri | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 39 |
Ochlerotatus caspius | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
Culiseta sp. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Total | 65 | 24 | 20 | 14 | 19 | 51 | 42 | 42 | 30 | 32 | 8 | 347 |
Identified blood meals | 52 | 15 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 46 | 41 | 33 | 18 | 13 | 2 | 234 |
Success (%) | 80.0 | 62.5 | 50.0 | 21.4 | 5.3 | 90.2 | 97.6 | 78.6 | 60.0 | 40.6 | 25.0 | |