Fig. 3

Feeding and egg laying by An. gambiae in response to vertebrate blood and blood fractions. Females were provided whole blood, plasma or blood cells from four vertebrates. Bar graphs on the left indicate the proportion of females that fed to repletion, with sample size (i.e., the number of individuals offered the meal) indicated below the x-axis in italics. Statistical significance after contingency table analysis is indicated (*p < 0.05; **p < 0.001; ***p < 0.0001; ns not significant). Dot plots on the right show the number of eggs laid by replete females, with sample sizes (i.e., number of replete females obtained from the feeds on the left panel) indicated below the x-axis and horizontal bars showing the treatment mean ± SD. Small case letters indicate treatments that significantly differed from one another after a Kruskal-Wallis and post-hoc Dunn’s test (p ≤ 0.05)