Fig. 1.

Reserve substances in individual adult mosquitoes (A–C) and protein, glycogen, and lipid content of foods (D) (food quality experiment). (A) Proteins; (B) glycogen; and (C) lipids. (A–C) M: males, F: females. Box plots with 5–95% whiskers are shown (N = 10). No mosquitoes fed with baker’s yeast were analyzed because of the lack of biological material due to the high mortality (Table 1). D: glycogen, lipid, and protein content of each food. Only means are shown (N = 3), SDs are named in the text.