Figure 2. Kaplan-Meier (time-to-event) plots of the preoviposition period and the incubation periods, and boxplots representing egg hatching rate, and the number of larvae from engorged Ixodes pacificus females.

2A) A Kaplan-Meier plot where each colored line corresponds to the fraction of adult female ticks that had not started laying eggs on a particular day after the ticks were injected with antibiotics or water (control). Vertical dashes on the colored lines represent censorship, where a tick that had not started to lay eggs died and was dropped from the study. The tetracycline group (red) took significantly longer to start laying eggs compared to the rest (P<0.05) 2B) A Kaplan-Meier plot where the colored lines represent the proportion of egg samples laid by individual ticks whose eggs had not finished hatching into larvae a certain number of days after oviposition began. 2C) A boxplot showing the hatching rate, or the fraction of tick eggs that successfully hatched into larvae, in the four treatment groups. Each individually colored box represents the hatching rate distribution of eggs laid by each female tick in the group. 2D) A boxplot specifying the distribution of the total number of larvae each female yielded. No significant difference in (C) hatching rate or (D) the number of larvae was present between treatment groups (P<0.05). Circles outside the boxes in (C) and (D) represent outliers. The colors in all the plots in the figure correspond to specific treatment groups: blue - ampicillin, yellow - ciprofloxacin, red - tetracycline, green - injection with water (control).