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From: Does artemether–lumefantrine administration affect mosquito olfactory behaviour and fitness?

Fig. 3

Effect of AL-administration on attractiveness of skin odour to Anopheles coluzzii in a dual-port olfactometer. Attractiveness of skin odour samples obtained from eight participants at three time points relative to AL-administration (before, during, after) was tested, with five replicates of 20–30 mosquitoes per skin odour sample. a Relative attractiveness reflects the percentage of mosquitoes that were trapped on human skin odour samples as a proportion of the total number of mosquitoes trapped on skin odour and the Mb5 control. Time point relative to AL-administration and participant identity had no significant effect on relative attractiveness (GLM, Ptime point = 0.720; Pparticipant = 0.186). b Mosquito response reflects the mosquitoes trapped on human skin odour samples as a proportion of the number of mosquitoes that flew in the olfactometer, i.e. independent of the mosquitoes trapped on the Mb5 control. Time point relative to AL-administration had a significant effect on mosquito response (GLM, Ptime point = 0.026). Different lower case letters above bars indicate pairwise significant differences (GLM, LSD, P < 0.05). Participant identity also had a significant effect on mosquito response (GLM, Pparticipant = 0.033). Estimated means with standard errors from GLMs are shown. See Additional file 2 for data

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