Fitness Cost of Litomosoides sigmodontis Filarial Infection in Mite Vectors; Implications of Infected Haematophagous Arthropod Excretory Products in Host-Vector Interactions
Figure 3
Effect of the filarial infection on the production of protonymphs in mites. Two groups of 1-week starved mites () were allowed to feed on infected or uninfected jirds for 12 hours; 20 infected females (Inf. mite) and 20 uninfected females (Uninf. mite) were randomly isolated and stored individually in glass tube for 12 days. The number (nb) of protonymphs per tube, thus per mite, was counted (a) as well as the number of L3 per infected mite. The production of protonymphs was different between infected and uninfected mites (Mann-Whitney test, ). Median is shown. (b) The number of protonymphs and the number of L3 illustrated are not correlated. Correlation was determined using the Spearman correlation test ().
