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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 2C.

The majority of meal iron retained by A. aegypti at the end the first gonotrophic cycle originates from heme.

Body Eggs
Iron (ng/♀) (%) Iron (ng/♀) (%)
Heme-Fe 114.9 99.6 121.9 98
Transferrin-Fe 0.5 0.4 2.8 2
Total 115.4 100 124.7 100