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

Malaria Journal

Table 5 Fecundity of An. gambiae offered three blood meals and exposed to each nutritional regime

Nutritional regime	N	Number of eggs produced Mean ± SE	Number of eggs retained Mean ± SE (per female retaining)	% Mosquitoes ovipositing Mean ± SE	Oviposition index	P	Number of eggs laid Mean ± SE (per female laying)	% Eggs hatched Mean ± SE
Glucose (6%)	117	76.5 ± 3.5^ab	60.4 ± 5.2^a	71.2 ± 6.7^a	0*	NA	77.0 ± 4.6^a	67.4 ± 1.2^a
T. stans	115	63.4 ± 3.1^ab	50.1 ± 4.0^a	69.2 ± 6.7^a	0.02^a	0.85	67.4 ± 3.9^a	69.0 ± 6.8^a
S. didymobotrya	115	70.1 ± 3.2^ab	63.1 ± 5.0^a	64.5 ± 6.8^ab	0.09^a	0.78	68.0 ± 4.2^a	61.9 ± 3.3^a
R. communis	90	78.2 ± 3.7^a	67.4 ± 5.5^a	60.5 ± 7.3^ab	0.15^a	0.75	79.3 ± 4.7^a	58.3 ± 7.7^a
H. patens	95	66.0 ± 3.5^ab	60.5 ± 4.5^a	46.8 ± 8.0^bc	0.34^b	0.46	67.7 ± 5.8^a	67.3 ± 9.1^a
L. camara	82	70.6 ± 3.8^ab	65.0 ± 5.8^a	40.2 ± 7.6^c	0.43^bc	0.03	75.6 ± 5.1^a	67.8 ± 4.1^a
P. hysterophorus	80	60.4 ± 3.6^b	53.7 ± 6.1^a	39.1 ± 10.7^c	0.45^bc	0.02	57.8 ± 4.1^a	34.4 ± 4.9^a
Water	69	66.7 ± 3.9^ab	67.2 ± 4.8^a	27.5 ± 6.8^c	0.60^c	0.007	58.5 ± 6.1^a	61.6 ± 17.4^a

N is number of mosquitoes tested; SE is standard error of mean
Oviposition index: (C-T)/C [(glucose control - treatment)/glucose control] expresses the effect of each treatment on the percentage of mosquitoes ovipositing, relative to the positive control (glucose)
Any two means in the same column sharing a letter superscript in common are not significantly different (SNK test at α = 0.05)
* Reference group

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