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Table 8 Fertility life table of Aedes aegypti groups with different pattern of temephos susceptibility

From: Fitness cost in field and laboratory Aedes aegypti populations associated with resistance to the insecticide temephos

Population/status for temephos

 

Parameters of population growth

 

X (weeks)

lX

RO

T (weeks)

rm

λ

DT (weeks)

RecRev (susceptible)

4

0.82

45.8

3.5

1.1

3

0.63

RecRNEx (resistant non-exposed)

4

0.54

21.9

3.1

0.99

2.7

0.69

RecR (resistant exposed)

4

0.38

15.8

2.9

0.95

2.6

0.72

Arcoverde (resistant field)

4

0.65

17.4

3.2

0.89

2.4

0.77

  1. X = age interval of females; lx = survival rate during stage x; Ro = net reproductive rate; T = mean duration of each generation; rm = intrinsic rate of natural increase; λ = finite rate of increase; DT = doubling time or the period required for a population to double in size
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Parasites & Vectors

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