Figure 1.

The mean (A) proportion of valid matings per day, (B) number of eggs laid per day and (C) the egg hatching rate of Bactrocera dorsalis among treatment groups after oral delivery of bacteria expressing different spermatogenesis related dsRNAs. The green fluorescent protein double-stranded RNA (dsgfp) treatment group was used as a control. All the experiments were performed in triplicate. Histograms represent mean ± SE values and different letters indicate significant differences among groups at <0.05 level (ANOVA followed by Fisher’s Least Significant Difference (LSD) post-hoc test).