Figure 4
The abundance of P. murinus gametocytes in the blood of different bat age classes. Parasitemia of M. daubentonii caught in September and October 2012. Young of the year (juveniles) have significantly higher parasitemia than older age classes. The y-axis, the number of blood parasites observed, is on a log scale. For visualisation purposes, 0.5 is added to parasitemia.