Fig. 12From: Age, sex, and mating status discrimination in the sand fly Lutzomyia longipalpis using near infra-red spectroscopy (NIRS)Spectra of females fed on sucrose solution or sucrose plus blood (absorbance vs. wavelength, nm) after smoothing and first derivative pre-treatment by Savitzky-Golay filter. (a) Results keeping females with unlaid eggs and (b) results without females with unlaid eggsBack to article page