From: Time-of-day of blood-feeding: effects on mosquito life history and malaria transmission
Experiment 1: “Blood quality & host time” | Experiment 2: “Blood quality” | Experiment 3: “Infection” | |
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Infection prevalence & intensity | na | na | No effect of feed time |
Proportion laid | Morning-fed are ~ 26% more likely to lay than evening-fed | No effect of feed time | Morning-fed are possibly ~ 27% more likely to lay than evening fed (P = 0.056) |
Time to lay | Morning-fed are ~ 1.5 times more likely to lay each day than evening-fed | No effect of feed time | No effect of feed time |
Clutch size | Higher if fed on control (non-anaemic) blood in the morning (30% more eggs) | No effect of feed time | No effect of feed time |
Hatch rate | No effect of feed time | na | na |
Blood meal volume & density | No effect of feed time | na | na |
Survival | No effect of feed time | No effect of feed time | No effect of feed time |