Mating competitiveness of sterile genetic sexing strain males (GAMA) under laboratory and semi-field conditions: Steps towards the use of the Sterile Insect Technique to control the major malaria vector Anopheles arabiensis in South Africa

Table 1 Mean percentage male adult emergence for An. arabiensis pupae irradiated at different doses and mean survival time of resultant adults reared under standard insectary conditions. Separation refers to pupal separation by gender

Treatment	Emergence		Adult survivorship
	Total no. pupae induced to emerge	Mean % emergence ± SD (95 % CI)	Total no. adult males monitored	Mean survival time ± SE (95 % CI)
Non-separation control	447	96.8 ± 2.6 (94.1 - 99.6)^a	132	13.5 ± 0.79 (11.9 - 15.0)^a
Separation control	448	78.7 ± 6.9 (71.6 - 86.2)^b	117	12.7 ± 0.76 (11.6 - 13.3)^a
70Gy	447	80.7 ± 7.1 (73.2 - 88.1)^b	142	12.6 ± 0.71 (11.2 - 14.9)^a
75Gy	452	82.6 ± 4.7 (77.6 - 87.6)^b	138	13.4 ± 0.63 (13.1 - 14.7)^a
80Gy	449	83.4 ± 5.4 (77.7 - 89.1)^b	136	10.2 ± 0.67 (9.0 - 11.5)^b
100Gy	453	83.4 ± 5.4 (77.8 - 89.0)^b	136	10.3 ± 0.29 (9.0 - 11.6)^b

Within columns, values followed by different lower case letters are statistically different (P < 0.05; one way ANOVA)

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