Vectorial capacities for malaria in eastern Amazonian Brazil depend on village, vector species, season, and parasite species

Table 1 Daily survival rates of An. darlingi, An. marajoara and An. nuneztovari using the Fisher & Ford mark-release-recapture (MRR) trellis method (1947) and Davidson method (1954)

Species	Date	Fisher & Ford	Davidson
		Fisher & Ford	MRR^a		3-day^b
		MRR	GC = 3	GC = 3.4	GC = 3	GC = 3.4
An. darlingi	Jun-04	0.55	0.82	0.84	0.73	0.76
An. darlingi	Oct-04	0.71	0.89	0.90	0.86	0.88
An. darlingi	Jun-05	0.72	0.71	0.74	0.70	0.73
An. darlingi	Sept-05	0.39	0.83	0.85	0.74	0.77
An. marajoara	Jun-04	0.43	0.80	0.82	0.75	0.77
An. marajoara	Oct-04	0.20	0.78	0.80	0.88	0.89
An. marajoara	Jun-05	0.25	0.61	0.65	0.76	0.78
An. marajoara	Sept-05	0.31	0.75	0.77	0.71	0.73
An. nuneztovari	Jun-04	0.94	0.85	0.87	0.78	0.81
An. nuneztovari	Oct-04	0.56	0.85	0.87	0.87	0.88
An. nuneztovari	Jun-05	0.98	0.69	0.72	0.66	0.69
An. nuneztovari	Sept-05	0.15	0.79	0.81	0.74	0.76

GC, gonotrophic cycle (length in days)
^aDaily survival rates of mosquitoes collected during the last 5 days of the MRR study
^bDaily survival rates of mosquitoes captured in the monthly 3-day collection during the MRR study

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