Table 1.
Associations of Biological Traits With Invasiveness Among Mosquito Species
| Biological Trait | Invasive Species |
Other Nonnative Species |
All Other Culicidae |
P Valuea | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| + | − | + | − | + | − | ||
| Desiccation-resistant eggs | 5 | 4 | 14 | 8 | 1012 | 2479 | .002 |
| Desiccation-resistant eggs | 5 | 4 | 14 | 8 | … | … | .693 |
| Container larval microhabitat | 7 | 2 | 10 | 12 | … | … | .134 |
| Human-dominated macrohabitat | 6 | 3 | 3 | 19 | … | … | .028 |
Data are modified from [1].
Abbreviations: +, presence of trait; −, absence of trait.
a By the Fisher exact test. The value in the first row is for the comparison of invasive species plus other nonnative species to all other Culicidae, whereas values in remaining rows are for comparisons of invasive species to other nonnative species.