Parasites & Vectors

Table 1 Variation in phenoloxidase activity of adult Culex pipiens mosquitoes according to age, sex and size

From: Patterns of phenoloxidase activity in insecticide resistant and susceptible mosquitoes differ between laboratory-selected and wild-caught individuals

	(a) Isogenic mosquitoes				(b) Wild mosquitoes
	Active PO		Total PO		Active PO
Factor	F _(df)	P	F _(df)	P	F _(df)	P
Age	247.17 _{(2, 1065)}	< 0.0001	214.62 _{(2, 1065)}	< 0.0001	111.15 _{(2, 734)}	< 0.0001
Sex	29.43 _{(1, 1065)}	< 0.0001	15.10 _{(1, 1065)}	0.0001	1.24 _{(1, 734)}	0.2661
Size	4.87 _{(1, 1065)}	0.0275	0.31 _{(1, 1065)}	0.5745	20.71 _{(1, 734)}	< 0.0001
Age*sex	58.25 _{(2, 1065)}	< 0.0001	51.78 _{(2, 1065)}	< 0.0001	19.66 _{(2, 734)}	< 0.0001
Sex*size	22.33 _{(1, 1065)}	< 0.0001	10.39 _{(1, 1065)}	0.0013	3.84 _{(1, 734)}	0.0504

(a) Experiment 1 using isogenic strain mosquitoes. (b) Experiment 2 using wild mosquitoes.

Back to article page

ISSN: 1756-3305

Contact us

Submission enquiries: journalsubmissions@springernature.com