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Table 1 Reproduction of juvenile snails with different densities of breeding for 1 year in the field

From: The South-to-North Water Diversion Project: effect of the water diversion pattern on transmission of Oncomelania hupensis, the intermediate host of Schistosoma japonicum in China

Juvenile snails (male: female ratio of 1)

with different densities (snails/0.16 m2)

Group I

Group II

 

No. snails

collected

No. living

snails

Reproduction

(%)

No. snails

collected

No. living

snails

Reproduction

(%)

2

2

1

-50

1

1

-50

4

3

3

-25

3

1

-75

8

30

21

162.5

35

27

237.5

16

49

43

168.8

51

47

193.8

32

58

51

59.4

63

56

75

64

118

108

68.8

121

110

71.9

128

229

197

53.9

243

201

57