Fig. 2

Feeding and egg laying by Ae. aegypti in response to blood and blood fractions from four vertebrates. Females were provided whole blood (a, b), plasma (c, d) or blood cells (e, f) containing ATP 1 mM in membrane feeders from human, rat, chicken or turkey. a, c and e Comparison of the proportion of females that fed to repletion. Numbers below the x-axis indicate the total number of individual females tested for a given treatment. Statistical significance after contingency table analysis is indicated by asterisks: *p < 0.05; **p < 0.001; ***p < 0.0001; ns not significant. b, d, and f Comparison of the number of eggs each female that fed to repletion laid. Numbers below the x-axis indicate the total number of individual replete females assessed for egg lay for each treatment. Horizontal bars indicate the mean ± SD. Within each graph different small case letters indicate treatments significantly differed from one another after a Kruskal-Wallis and post-hoc Dunn’s test (p ≤ 0.05)