Figure 5. Dynamics of blood parasitaemia (Log(RQ+1), mean ± s.e.) of Plasmodium relictum (lineage SGS1) in birds that were either unexposed (open circles, dashed line) or exposed to mosquito bites (filled circles, solid line).

Mosquito exposure (refer to Materials & Methods for details) took place in three consecutive sessions (grey areas): 34–48 dpi, 122–135 dpi and 291–304 dpi.