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Table 3 Relation between Christophers’ ovarian development stages and the the number of egg-laying undetermined by Polovodova method based on oil injection and conventional dilaceration techniques

From: Application of Polovodova’s method for the determination of physiological age and relationship between the level of parity and infectivity of Plasmodium falciparum in Anopheles gambiae s.s, south-eastern Benin

 

CDT

OIT

Stage

N Ind

Total

% Ind

P

N Ind

Total

% Ind

P

I

11

25

44.00

0.4948

6

19

31.58a

0.0274

II

88

149

59.06

13

152

08.55b

III

9

18

50.00

1

20

05.00b

IV

4

8

50.00

2

7

28.57a

Total

112

200

56

 

22

198

11.11

 
  1. CDT: Conventional ovries dilaceration technique; OIT: Oil injection technique; Ind: indetermination; N: Number; p = p-value; I, II, III et IV: Christophers’ ovarian development stages.
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