Fig. 1
The antibody response in mice vaccinated with recombinant Akirin proteins, assessed 24 h before each immunisation (weeks 0, 2, and 4) and blood-feeding (weeks 6 and 7), at an optical density of 450 nm. The antibody titres of the mice that were vaccinated with recombinant Q38 (blue), recombinant Akirinarabiensis (red), and recombinant Akirinalbopictus (green) proteins were significantly higher than those of the mice vaccinated with the control treatment (purple). The error bars on the graph are indicative of the SE between the treatment replicates (3 mice per treatment, 3 treatments, n = 12)