Significance of bacteria in oviposition and larval development of the sand fly Lutzomyia longipalpis

Parasites & Vectors

Table 1 Development of L. longipalpis in rabbit feces (RF) with different treatments and prevalence and concentration of bacteria in the gut of newly emerged females

Substrate	1^stinstar larvae (n)	% survival to adult stage (% females)	% newly emerged females with bacteria in the gut	Mean concentration of bacteria (CFU ± SEM) per female^#
Control RF	60	91.7 (50.9)^a	25.0	1.4 ± 0.9 × 10¹
Sterile RF	45	77.8 (48.6)^b	0	0
Morganella morgani	25	76.0 (52.6)^b	40.0	1.6 ± 1.5 × 10³
Pseudomonas sp. KK-2	25	72.0 (55.6)^b	40.0	3.2 ± 2.6 × 10²
Pseudomonas sp. KK-1	25	84.0 (38.1)^a	25.0	2.0 ± 1.2 × 10³
Rhizobacterium radiobacter	25	88.0 (40.9)^a	33.3	1.8 ± 1.3 × 10³
Enterococcus gallinarum	25	84.0 (76.2)^a	6.3	8.3 × 10¹
Bacillus sp. KK-1	25	36.0 (22.2)^c	0	0
six bacterial isolates together	25	84.0 (42.9)^a	44.4	2.8 ± 2.3 × 10^2*

CFU = colony forming units; different letters in superscript indicate significant difference among treatments.
^# only females positive for bacteria are included, SEM = standard error of mean, *bacterial diversity shown in Figure 3.

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