Figure 4.

Time kinetics of phagocytosis of S. entomophila, Bt and B. subtilis by Hv and Hs haemocytes in vitro. Haemocytes were stimulated with (a) S. entomophila, (b) Bt and (c) B. subtilis. Error bars represent the s.e.m. of at least three independent experiments. Differences between the two species for each time point within one treatment were assessed with a Student's t-test after normalization by arcsine-square root transformation (Kolmogorov–Smirnov test: p > 0.05). Significant differences are indicated by **p < 0.01; *p < 0.05; n.s., not significant.