Table 3. Fitness parameters of Boa Vista (BVT) and Aparecida de Goiânia (APG) mosquitoes before (data obtained from Belinato et al. [33]) and after selection with diflubenzuron.
| fitness parameters | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Population/Strain | Longevity 1 | blood meal acceptance 2 | Amount of ingested blood 3 | Number of eggs 4 |
| Rock A * | 71.1 ± 9.6 | 95.5 ± 5.0a | 2.2 ± 0.2a | 103.2 ± 18.6a |
| BVT F1 | 82.2 ± 16.7 | 81.1 ± 24.1b | 2.3 ± 0.1a | 104.0 ± 17.2a |
| APG F1 | 73.3 ± 13.3 | 76.6 ± 3.3b | 1.9 ± 0,1b | 80.9 ± 29.4b |
| % reduction: | ||||
| BVT/Rock A 5 | _ | 15.0 | _ | _ |
| APG/Rock A 5 | _ | 19.7 | 13.6 | 21.6 |
| Rock B * | 63.3 ± 10.0 | 96.6 ± 3.3a | 2.5 ± 0.3a | 81.4 ± 19.5a |
| BVT F6 cont | 66.6 ± 20.0 | 95.4 ± 2.9a | 2.4 ± 0.3a | 77.0 ± 19.7a |
| BVT F6 dfb | 40.0 ± 11.5 | 62.5 ± 19.2b | 2.1 ± 0.2b | 64.2 ± 21.9b |
| APG F7 cont | 88.9 ± 16.1 | 84.4 ± 13.7c | 1.9 ± 0.2b | 65.2 ± 22.3c |
| APG F7 dfb | 56.3 ± 11.1 | 48.9 ± 17.7d | 1.9 ± 0.2b | 60.0 ± 18.2d |
| % reduction: | ||||
| BVTF6 cont/Rock B 5 | _ | 1.2 | 4.0 | 5.4 |
| BVT F6 dfb/Rock B 5 | 36.8 | 35.3 | 16.0 | 21.1 |
| BVT F6 dfb/cont 6 | 39.9 | 34.4 | 12.5 | 16.6 |
| APG F7 cont/Rock B 5 | _ | 12.6 | 24.0 | 19.9 |
| APG F7 dfb/Rock B 5 | 11.0 | 49.3 | 24.0 | 26.2 |
| APG F7 dfb/cont 6 | 36.6 | 42.0 | 0.0 | 7.9 |
1 percentage of survived females on the 40th day
2 percentage of females that accept blood meal
3 weight of femals fed/weight of females not fed
4 average number of eggs per female
5 average reduction in relation to Rockefeller
6 average reduction of the selected groups (dfb) in relation to the control groups (cont) of each population
* The Rockefeller strain was used as an experimental control before (Rock A) and after selection (Rock B).
cont: control groups; dfb: groups selected with diflubenzuron.
distinct letters above columns indicate significant differences (P < 0.05)