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Table 7 Average percent of eggs hatching for a sample of n ticks per day per calf

From: Vaccination of cattle with synthetic peptides corresponding to predicted extracellular domains of Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus aquaporin 2 reduced the number of ticks feeding to repletion

 

Day of collection

20

21

22

23

24

25

Mean % per calf

%

n

%

n

%

n

%

n

%

n

%

n

Control

             

 C1557

75.25

47

83.50

47

75.06

46

83.09

48

77.39

48

71.88

22

77.70

 C1559

78.77

48

77.16

48

78.75

43

68.15

44

76.43

46

63.63

17

73.82

 C1560

80.01

48

79.17

45

81.24

46

75.19

46

69.77

47

65.06

11

75.07

 Daily mean

78.01

 

79.94

 

78.35

 

75.48

 

74.53

 

66.86

 

75.53

 SD

2.46

 

3.24

 

3.11

 

7.47

 

4.15

 

4.41

 

1.98

 SEM

1.42

 

1.87

 

1.79

 

4.31

 

2.40

 

2.55

 

1.14

Vaccinated

 C1551

81.72

47

72.36

47

83.20

47

80

47

78.13

46

74.77

24

78.44

 C1553

88.29

47

78.31

48

83.30

48

87.92

42

75.90

43

57.55

15

78.55

 C1554

84.8

46

81.46

47

78.39

47

79.70

48

66.20

48

70.90

24

76.92

 Daily mean

84.95

 

77.38

 

81.63

 

82.69

 

73.41

 

67.74

 

77.97

 SD

3.29

 

4.62

 

2.81

 

4.54

 

6.34

 

9.04

 

0.91

 SEM

1.90

 

2.67

 

1.62

 

2.62

 

3.66

 

5.22

 

0.53

  1. % = Average percent of a subsample of eggs hatching for a sample of n egg masses per day per calf. Day of collection = number of days since larval ticks were first applied. n = number of egg masses sampled for the calf on the day. SD standard deviation, SEM standard error of the mean
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