Effect of temperature and relative humidity on the development times and survival of Synopsyllus fonquerniei and Xenopsylla cheopis, the flea vectors of plague in Madagascar

Table 2 Results of the model comparison for development time for both vector species combined for larval development time until pupation and for pupal development time until emergence

X. cheopis and S. fonquerniei
	Larvae		Pupae
Model	df	Δ AIC	df	Δ AIC
RH + species, plate	5	4381	5	2253
Logtemperature + species, plate	5	4326	5	2210
Logtemperature + RH + species, plate	6	4327	6	2208
Logtemperature \| RH + species, plate	7	4328	7	2208
RH \| species + logtemperature, plate	7	4322*	7	2208
Logtemperature \| species, plate	6	4327	6	2207
Logtemperature \| species + RH, plate	7	4328	7	2205*

Plus (+) corresponds to addition of variables while slash (|) corresponds to an interaction term between variables. Model selection is based on ΔAIC and parsimony. The selected models are marked with an asterisk

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