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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)

Fig. 2

Mature egg formation by Aedes aegypti and A. atropalpus adult females from larvae that were inoculated with a single bacterial species or conventionally reared (Non-sterile). a The proportion of females that produced one or more mature eggs did not differ among treatments for A. aegypti (Fisher’s exact test: P > 0.05) but did differ for 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 Total clutch sizes (sum of the number of eggs laid and the number of mature eggs in the ovaries) did not differ among treatments for A. aegypti (ANOVA: F (5,183) = 2.3, P > 0.05) but did differ for A. atropalpus (ANOVA: F (5,127) = 13.0, P < 0.0001). c Number of eggs laid by females in a given treatment that produced at least one mature egg did not not differ for A. aegypti (ANOVA: F (5,183) = 2.2, P > 0.05) but did differ for A. atropalpus (ANOVA: F (5,127) = 18.4, P < 0.0001). Bars in (b) and (c) present mean values with 95 % confidence intervals while asterisks (*) in (b) and (c) indicate treatments that significantly differ from the non-sterile control (Dunnett’s test; P < 0.01)

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