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Fig. 1 | Parasites & Vectors

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From: Gregarine parasites are adapted to mosquito winter diapause

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Number of oocysts per adult mosquito across the experimental conditions. Females (blue) and males (yellow) were tested across three independent replicate batches. The violin plots show the log10 of total oocyst number + 1 across the experimental conditions. In the Fresh oocysts treatment, infected mosquitoes were crushed into sterile water which was immediately used to seed the water in the tray containing the unparasitized 1st instar larvae. Non-infected mosquitoes were unparasitized and used as a control to confirm that no residual parasites had colonized the test population. In the Parasite kept 1 month at 26 °C or 4 °C treatments, infected mosquitoes were crushed in sterile water and stored for 1 month at 26 °C or at 4 °C, respectively before being seeded to tray containing unparasitized 1st instar larvae. Larvae were reared to adult mosquitoes before parasitism measurement

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