Table 1.

Effects of probing (main effects from repeated measures general linear models) by mosquitoes on host and Plasmodium chabaudi responses (see also figure 1).

response variable		p
mass	F1,15=4.8	0.04
red blood cells (per ml)	F1,15=2.1	0.17
reticulocyte density	F1,15=0.3	0.62
asexual density	F1,16=0.1	0.76
gametocyte density	F1,15=0.1	0.73
proportion of infected cells that carried gametocytes	F1,15=0.1	0.77
gametocyte conversion rate	F1,15=0.1	0.77
sex ratio	F1,14=0.1	0.76