Fig. 8

Box-whisker plot of wing length (top), and width (bottom) across species (x-axis, abbreviated species names: arab. = An. arabiensis, coluz. = An. coluzzii., gamb. = An. gambiae s.s.) in longest flight (a and d), total flight (b and c) and flight bouts (panels c and f) for LFAs (blue) and HFAs (red). Mean marked as ○ (for LFAs) or + (for HFAs). Horizontal line within box represents the median. Box bottom and top are 25th and 75th percentile, respectively, whiskers extend up to 1.5 time the inter-quartile range and outliers (‘o’ or ‘+’) represent observations that extend beyond the whiskers. Significantly larger mean and median wing dimensions in HFAs vs. LFAs indicated by asterisks on the left and right of the arrow (showing direction of increase; LFA or HFA), respectively. One tailed significance levels of P < 0.05 and P < 0.01 measured by ANOVA (left of arrow) or Median score tests (right of arrow); shown as ‘*’ and ‘**’ respectively