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. 2004 May 6;4:12. doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-4-12

Table 2.

Insemination rates in free-mating crosses between An. albitarsis from the laboratory colony, F1 mosquitoes of the original population (Massaranduba, Santa Catarina State, Brazil) and their reciprocal hybrids.

cross Number of crosses Number of inseminated females
♀ colony X ♂ colony 115 23 (20.0%)
♀ feral X ♂ colony 85 16 (18.8%)
♀ colony X ♂ feral 65 3 (4.6%)
♀ feral X ♂ feral 66 5 (7.6%)
♀ colony X ♂ hybrid A# 43 2 (4.7%)
♀ colony X ♂ hybrid B$ 30 2 (6.7%)

# hybrid A = F1 of ♀ feral X ♂ colony $ hybrid B = F1 of ♀ colony X ♂ feral