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Table 4 Fecundity of An. gambiae offered one blood meal and exposed to each nutritional regime

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

Nutritional Regime

N

Eggs laid Mean ± SE (female laying)

Glucose (6%)

44

35.7 ± 2.1a

T. stans

40

34.8 ± 2.0a

S. didymobotrya

46

33.1 ± 1.9a

R. communis

39

33.0 ± 2.3a

H. patens

48

39.1 ± 2.6a

L. camara

46

21.2 ± 2.5b

P. hysterophorus

38

15.1 ± 2.0b

Water

16

15.5 ± 3.2b

  1. N is number of mosquitoes that oviposited
  2. SE is standard error of mean
  3. Any two means sharing a letter superscript in common are not significantly different (SNK test at α = 0.05)