Second Blood Meal by Female Lutzomyia longipalpis: Enhancement by Oviposition and Its Effects on Digestion, Longevity, and Leishmania Infection

Figure 3

Survival curve of L. longipalpis females after (a) first and (b) second blood feed. Lines in (a) represent sugar-fed (black) and blood-fed (blue). Lines in (b) represent blood-fed once with four-day-old females (blue), blood-fed once with 11-day-old females (red), blood-fed twice (at 4 and 11 days after emergence, green), and sugar-fed only (black).

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