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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Aug 25.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Rev Microbiol. 2012 Nov 13;10(12):869–876. doi: 10.1038/nrmicro2900

Figure 2. Changes in ambient temperature differentially affect two parasite traits.

Figure 2

The proportion of infectious mosquitoes (that is, the proportion with sporozoites in their salivary glands) can be used as a measurement of parasite survival, and parasite development rate is measured as the reciprocal of the number of days taken to reach the sporozoite stage. Although parasites develop to the sporozoite stage at faster rates with increasing ambient temperature, the proportion of infectious mosquitoes sharply declines as the ambient temperature rises above 22 °C. The data shown are for Plasmodium yoelii infecting Anopheles stephensi. Figure is modified from REF. 53.