Effect of discriminative plant-sugar feeding on the survival and fecundity of Anopheles gambiae

Malaria Journal

Table 2 Survival times in days of An. gambiae exposed to different nutritional regimes

Nutritional regime	N	Median	Mean	± SE	Range	Survival index	P
Glucose (6%)	300	16.0	17.1^a	0.4	2.0 – 35.0	0.00*	NA
T. stans	294	12.0	13.4^b	0.5	2.0 – 55.0	0.18^a	0.06
S. didymobotrya	278	11.0	11.6^c	0.3	2.0 – 34.0	0.30^a	0.03
R. communis	293	10.0	11.4^c	0.4	2.0 – 37.0	0.32^a	0.01
H. patens	288	7.0	7.7^d	0.3	2.0 – 32.0	0.50^b	0.001
L. camara	286	6.0	7.2^d	0.2	2.0 – 26.0	0.58^b	<0.001
P. hysterophorus	290	4.0	4.7^e	0.2	2.0 – 26.0	0.72^c	<0.001
Water (-ve control)	297	3.0	3.8^e	0.1	2.0 – 12.0	0.77^c	<0.001
None (2^nd -ve control)	296	3.0	3.0^e	0.0	2.0 – 6.0	0.80^c	<0.001

N is total number of mosquitoes tested
SE is Standard error of mean
Survival index: (C-T)/C [(glucose control - treatment)/glucose control] expresses the effect of each treatment on the mean survival time of mosquitoes relative to the positive control (glucose)
Means and survival index with different letter superscripts in the same column are significantly different (SNK test at α = 0.05)
* Reference group

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