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

Parasites & Vectors

Table 3 Mean (± S.E) percentage of uninfected and fungus-infected An. gambiae male mosquitoes (see Figure 1 ) that imbibed different amounts of sugar when fed on Ricinus communis for 12 hr

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	56.0 ± 6.16	41.0 ± 9.47	9.01	0.003
Medium		4	22.0 ± 3.56	21.5 ± 4.19	0.02	0.903
Large		4	9.5 ± 1.71	6.5 ± 2.63	1.22	0.269
Small	3	4	52.0 ± 8.49	37.0 ± 6.14	9.11	0.003
Medium		4	16.5 ± 0.50	10.5 ± 7.37	3.08	0.079
Large		4	4.0 ± 2.45	1.0 ± 1.0	3.69	0.055

One and three d post-exposure males 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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