Figure 1.

Simulated results of percentage of single and multiple blood meals estimated by the three-allele method, as a function of the number of microsatellite loci (1–5) used in the experiment with inbreeding factors of f = 0, 0.2, and 0.5, Zambia. Perfect detection is assumed. The upper dashed line indicates the true proportion of single blood meals, and the lower dashed line indicates the true proportion of multiple blood meals. Each point represents the mean percentage of single and multiple blood meals returned by the simulation for a given number of loci. Error bars represent standard error of the mean. Detection bias is equal to the difference between each point and the true proportion (dashed line).