Table 1 Infective rates and parasite loads of 8 species in the An. hyrcanus group after feeding on blood containing B. malayi microfilariae (microfilarial density = 312, 208, 256 and 283 mf/20 μl in experiment 1, 2, 3 and 4, respectively), with all mosquitoes dissected 14 days after feeding

95 (19/20)

19.05 (1–49)

59.39 (215)

21.27 (77)

19.34 (70)

85 (17/20)^a

6.24 (1–27)ⁿ

52.83 (56)

38.68 (41)

8.49 (9)

65 (13/20)^b

9.77 (1–32)^o

44.88 (57)

38.58 (49)

16.54 (21)

65 (13/20)^c

6.69 (1–15)^p

45.98 (40)

19.54 (17)

34.48 (30)

0 (0/20)^d

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-

70 (14/20)

7.50 (1–36)

83.81 (88)

9.52 (10)

6.67 (7)

60 (12/20)^e

2.92 (1–6)^q

68.57 (24)

22.86 (8)

8.57 (3)

50 (10/20)^f

4.20 (1–9)^r

69.05 (29)

16.66 (7)

14.29 (6)

0 (0/20)^g

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-

-

-

60 (12/20)^h

3.83 (1–11)^s

67.39 (31)

19.57 (9)

13.04 (6)

80 (16/20)

10.56 (1–32)

73.37 (124)

16.57 (28)

10.06 (17)

5 (1/20)ⁱ

1.00 (0–1)^t

100.00 (1)

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-

100 (20/20)^j

7.75 (1–23)^u

57.42 (89)

14.19 (22)

28.39 (44)

80 (16/20)

11.81 (2–28)

77.25 (146)

15.87 (30)

6.88 (13)

80 (16/20)^k

6.06 (1–19)^v

79.38 (77)

11.34 (11)

9.28 (9)

70 (14/20)^l

8.00 (2–22)^w

80.36 (90)

10.71 (12)

8.93 (10)

10 (2/20)^m

1.50 (1–2)^x

100.00 (3)

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