Figure 2

Consequences of diet on MALDI-TOF MS profiles from whole An. gambiae specimens at the L3 stage. (A) Representative spectra from biological replicates performed in quadruplicate of An. gambiae specimens fed with fish food 1 (top-spectra), fish food 2 (middle-spectra), or bread plus dried cat food (bottom-spectra) during all aquatic developmental stages. The diets provided are indicated in the right corner of each protein profile spectrum. a.u., arbitrary units; m/z, mass-to-charge ratio. (B) Dendrogram constructed from 2 representative spectra of An. gambiae specimens fed with fish food 1, fish food 2 or bread plus dried cat food. The dendrogram was calculated by Biotyper 3.0 software and the distance units correspond to the relative similarity of MS spectra. FF1, fish food 1 (TetraMinBaby); FF2, fish food 2 (Tropical Mikrovit Basic); B + CF, bread plus dried cat food.