Effects of fungal infection on feeding and survival of Anopheles gambiae (Diptera: Culicidae) on plant sugars

Parasites & Vectors

Table 2 Mean (± S.E) percentage of uninfected and fungus-infected An. gambiae female mosquitoes (see Figure 1 ) that imbibed different amounts of sugar when fed on Ricinus communis for 12 hours

Sugar quantity	Days post-exposure	N	Mean% (± S.E) of males that imbibed sugar		χ ²	P
Sugar quantity	Days post-exposure	N	Uninfected	Fungus-infected	χ ²	P
Small	1	4	47.5 ± 8.54	38.0 ± 7.96	3.69	0.055
Medium		4	29.0 ± 4.51	26.0 ± 4.08	0.45	0.502
Large		4	18.5 ± 8.22	19.5 ± 6.29	0.07	0.799
Small	3	4	35.0 ± 4.12	30.0 ± 5.6	1.14	0.286
Medium		4	22.0 ± 2.22	6.0 ± 2.16	22.28	0.001
Large		4	12.0 ± 4.69	6.5 ± 6.5	3.60	0.058

One and three d post-exposure females were tested.
Statistical significance (P value) between the number of uninfected and fungus-infected mosquitoes in each category of sugar quantity imbibed was calculated by Chi square (χ ²) test. Each treatment tested 200 mosquitoes.

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