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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Insect Physiol. 2007 Jun 21;53(11):1169–1178. doi: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2007.06.009

Table 1.

Location of meal transferrin iron at the end of the gonotrophic cycle in A.aegypti.

Pig blood meal (cpm/μl): 6140±140
Total 59Fe consumed (cpm/♀): 18522±980
Meal size in 59Fe-Tf feeding (μl/♀): 3.0±0.2
Body Eggs Waste
Location of 59Fe at 120 h (cpm/♀): 2777±544 14172±520 1574±520
Meal Tf-iron utilized (%): 15% 77% 8%