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. 2012 Apr 1;86(4):665–676. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.2012.11-0513

Table 1.

Experimental design of each MRR experiment, Buenos Aires, Mexico*

Characteristic MRR1 MRR2 MRR3 MRR4 MRR5
Date June 2009 September 2009 December 2009 December 2009 March 2010
Maximum distance (meters) between release point and most distant houses sampled 302 302 247 234 237
First collection day post-release (hours) 4 2 2 7 7
No. recapture days 14 14 10 10 7
No. houses surveyed 480 496 183 172 182
No. collected houses/ha/day 1.27 1.27 1.47 1.48 2.24
No. large males released 1,000 3,000 1,076 1,068 3,442
No. small males released 984 3,000 1.031 942 1,689
No. males released 1,984 6,000 2,107 2,010 5,131
*

MRR = mark-release-recapture.