Evaluating the potential of the sterile insect technique for malaria control: relative fitness and mating compatibility between laboratory colonized and a wild population of Anopheles arabiensis from the Kruger National Park, South Africa

Table 2 Mean duration and survival rates of immature stages of MALPAN (MALP) and Field collected F₁ progeny.

Attributes	Egg Stage		Larval Stage L1-L4*		Pupal Stage
	Field F ₁	MALP	Field F ₁	MALP	Field F ₁	MALP
Egg-hatching rate (%) ± SD (95% CI)	78.8 ± 25.7 (73.2 - 84.5)	68.7 ± 11.2 (65.3 - 72.1)	-	-	-	-
Duration of Immature stage ± SD (95% CI)	4.7 ± 0.3 (4.2 - 5.1	3.1 ± 0.6 (2.7 - 3.6)	7.3 ± 1.2 (6.6 - 7.9)	9.24 ± 1.6† (8.5 - 9.9)	2.5 ± 0.6 (2.1 - 2.8)	2 ± 0.8 (1.9 - 2.3)
Survival rate ± SD (95% CI)	-	-	85.4 ± 16.4 (77.9 - 92.9)	86.5 ± 10.0 (70.6 - 92.3)	96.4 ± 6.2 (93.5 -99.3)	90.3 ± 6.9 (88.7 - 95.4)

* L1- L4 first, second, third and fourth larval instar, † showed statistically significant difference

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