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Table 7 Quantification of the ingested esculin by Lutzomyia longipalpis adults exposed to esculin-supplemented diets. Flies were maintained on an esculin-supplemented sucrose diet for 6 to 7 days. Insects were immersed and homogenized in two different solvents, water or methanol. In the solvent test, flies were immersed for 8 days. Stability of fluorescence was evaluated by immersing esculin-fed insects in methanol and then homogenizing for fluorescence measurements after 1, 14 or 28 days. Basal fluorescence of the negative controls (sucrose-fed only) was subtracted from experimental sample values. Each sample used for extraction and measurement consisted of an individual sand fly. Results are shown in pmol/insect and are the mean and SEM of 3 biological replicates, with a total measurement of n = 22 (male) and n = 24 (female) in solvent tests and n = 29 (male) and n = 36 (female) in stability tests

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Solvent

Incubation time in the solvent (days)

Males (pmol/insect)

Females (pmol/insect)

Water

8

58 ± 8

67 ± 9

Methanol

8

52 ± 7

70 ± 7

Methanol

1

34 ± 4a

53 ± 5

Methanol

14

49 ± 5

47 ± 6

Methanol

28

49 ± 5

52 ± 7

  1. aMann-Whitney test, U = 106.5 P = 0.01