Larval and adult environmental temperatures influence the adult reproductive traits of Anopheles gambiae s.s.

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Table 6 Two-group comparisons and overall trend of the effect of increasing the environmental temperature of eggs on their time to hatching

		23 ± 1 °C	27 ± 1 °C (with respect to 23 °C)	31 ± 1 °C (with respect to 23 °C)	31 ± 1 °C (with respect to 27 °C)	Overall effect of larval temperature on time to egg hatching
1^st blood meal	Days (±SD)	1.72 (±0.48)	1.07 (±0.26)	1.75 (±0.81)
	Mantel-Cox test statistic		61.88	0.05	41.05	Log-rank test statistic	78.49
	p-value		<0.001	0.82	<0.001	p-value	<0.001
2^nd blood meal	Days (±SD)	2.43 (±0.65)	1.83 (±0.62)	1.92 (±0.49)
	Mantel-Cox test statistic		17.71	12.81	0.01	Log-rank test statistic	21.37
	p-value		<0.001	<0.001	0.91	p-value	<0.001
3^rd blood meal	Days (±SD)	2.89 (±0.83)	2.45 (±1.1)	3 (±0.0)
	Mantel-Cox test statistic		0.75	0.03	0.02	Log-rank test statistic	0.75
	p-value		0.39	0.87	0.9	p-value	0.69

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