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From: Gut bacteria differentially affect egg production in the anautogenous mosquito Aedes aegypti and facultatively autogenous mosquito Aedes atropalpus (Diptera: Culicidae)

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Development of Aedes aegypti and A. atropalpus larvae that were axenic, inoculated with a single bacterial species, or conventionally reared (non-sterile). a Survival from egg hatching to adult emergence differed among treatments for A. aegypti (Fisher’s exact test: P = 0.0005) and A. atropalpus (Fisher’s exact test: P < 0.0001). An asterisk (*) above a given bar indicates the treatment significantly differed from the non-sterile control by post-hoc pair-wise comparisons with Bonferroni correction. b Development time from egg hatching to pupation differed among treatments for A. aegypti (ANOVA: F (5,673) = 8.0, P < 0.0001) and A. atropalpus (ANOVA: F (5,880) = 211.3, P < 0.0001). c Size as estimated by forewing length did not differ among treatments for A. aegypti (ANOVA: F (5,183) = 1.2, P = 0.29) but did differ for A. atropalpus (ANOVA: F (5,129) = 32.7, P < 0.0001). Asterisks above the bars in (b) or (c) indicate means that significantly differ from the non-sterile control as determined by Dunnett’s test (P < 0.01). A minimum of 5 replicate dishes and 100 larvae per treatment were assayed for survival and development times. A single forewing from a minimum of 20 randomly selected adult females per treatment was measured to estimate adult size. The bars in (b) and (c) present mean values with 95 % confidence intervals for each treatment

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