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From: Light manipulation of mosquito behaviour: acute and sustained photic suppression of biting activity in the Anopheles gambiae malaria mosquito

Fig. 5

Experiment 4: Sustained (chronic) inhibition of biting behaviour by multiple light pulses delivered during the diel night. Inhibition of blood-feeding in mosquitos that were blood-fed one h 50 min after receiving a light pulse versus controls. Light pulses were administered every 2 h throughout the dark phase starting at ZT12. Excluding mosquitoes offered a blood meal at ZT14, experimental mosquitoes were subject to multiple light pulses. Blood meals were offered for 6 min during the biological night at ZT14, 16, 18, 20, 22, and CT24/0 under dark conditions. Two-way ANOVA (effect of treatment, F (1,47) = 51.9, P < 0.001; effect of ZT, F (5,47) = 1.6, P = 0.194; interaction, F (5,47) = 3.4, P = 0.013) followed by post-hoc tests (*P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, and ***P < 0.001). Values are mean ± SEM

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