Differences in timing of mating swarms in sympatric populations of Anopheles coluzzii and Anopheles gambiae s.s. (formerly An. gambiae M and S molecular forms) in Burkina Faso, West Africa

Table 1 Regression analysis of swarm start and stop times against environmental parameters based on Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient test (two-tailed distribution)

The correlation (r) between each environmental variate in turn against swarm start and end times for each species; 'p’ = probability of no correlation, sample size for each species n = 240 records each of temperature, humidity and light intensity at the start and at the end of swarms (^&20/month/species for 12 months, 2007), n = 500 records of sunset times for start of swarms (*20/month/species for 25 months over 4 years), and n = 400 records of sunset times for the end of swarms (^#20/month/species for 20 months over 3 years). NB: swarm end times were not recorded in 2009.

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