Figure 4. Large amounts of ingested phenylpyruvate are required to decrease the survival of adult A. gambiae mosquitoes.

Females were fed on naive blood or blood supplemented with phenylpyruvate (PP) or phenylalanine (Phe) at a concentration of 10–50 mM and their survival was recorded daily until 7 days post blood meal (PBM). Combined survival data from three independent experiments are displayed as mean ± SEM (log-rank test, ***p<0.001).