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Table 3 Blood meal source identification (by ELISA) in each of the ancestry clusters revealed by STRUCTURE in indoor collections

From: Feeding patterns of molestus and pipiens forms of Culex pipiens (Diptera: Culicidae) in a region of high hybridization

 

N

Blood feed – Indoor

  

Mammal

Bird

Mixed

WI

Cluster 1 (molestus)

48

2

43

1

2

(4.2)

(89.5)

(2.1)

(4.2)

Cluster 2 (pipiens)

97

1

93

0

3

(1.0)

(95.9)

(0.0)

(3.1)

Admixed

25

0

23

1

1

(0.0)

(92.0)

(4.0)

(4.0)

Total

170

3

159

2

6

  

(1.8)

(93.5)

(1.2)

(3.5)

  1. N: number of individuals; Mammal: feeds in mammal (all in Human); Bird: feeds in Bird (chicken antibody); Mixed: Mixed fed in mammal and bird (all in cow and chicken); WI: without positive identification. Values in parenthesis refer to the frequencies (in percentage) within each cluster.
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Parasites & Vectors

ISSN: 1756-3305

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