Ad libitum consumption of protein- or peptide-sucrose solutions stimulates egg formation by prolonging the vitellogenic phase of oogenesis in anautogenous mosquitoes

Table 3 Response to blood meal by Ae. aegypti F0 versus tryptone-sucrose F6

	Live rat		Defibrinated rabbit blood
	F0	F6	F0	F6
Proportion of replete females	83/99 (84%)	71/96 (74%)^ns	81/99 (90%)	83/100 (83%)^ns
Time taken to oviposit (days)	3.8 ± 0.9	5.1 ± 1.8**	3.3 ± 0.9	3.4 ± 1.0^ns
Total eggs per female	91.3 ± 63.6	93.5 ± 60.8^ns	119.6 ± 49.6	99.2 ± 53.5^ns

Pairwise statistical comparisons of F0 and F6 females are indicated to the right for both treatments. Fisher’s exact test was used to compare proportion of replete females (row 1) and Student’s t-test used to compare time to oviposit and egg clutch size (rows 2 and 3). ns, not significant; *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***P < 0.001, ****P < 0.0001

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