Fig. 5

Amino acid content of gut of Ae. aegypti fed of different nutrient sources. a Volcano plot depicting unique amino acids significantly abundant or low in the guts of females fed on P. dulce, L. nepetifolia, O. ficus-indica and 6% glucose solution compared to those exclusively fed on mouse blood. The horizontal line shows where P = 0.05 by F statistics. The significantly high or low abundant amino acids are shown. LN denotes L. nepetifolia, PD denotes P. dulce, OFI denotes O. ficus-indica, Glu denotes glucose solution. b Mean amounts of the unique amino acids in the guts of females fed on the five nutrient sources with three initial blood meals. The P-values were < 0.001, < 0.01, < 0.05 and < 0.01 for methionine, isoleucine, phenylalanine and arginine, respectively. c Mean amounts of the unique amino acids in the guts of females fed on the three plant nutrients with no initial blood meals and those fed exclusively on blood. The P-values were < 0.05, = 0.25, = 0.052 and < 0.01 for methionine, isoleucine, phenylalanine and arginine, respectively. The differences in gut amino acid content were detected by one-way ANOVA and Tukey post-hoc test. Bars denoted by different letters are significantly different