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. 2017 Sep 5;7:10417. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-11021-6

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Mean proportional survival of 1 and 4-week-old flies after cuticle inoculation or haemocoelic injection with Beauveria bassiana spores. To make both infection treatments comparable, we selected data from the timepoint where overall mean proportional survival was closest to 50% for each treatment route: day 7 for cuticle inoculation and day 5 for haemocoelic injection (see methods). (A) Female flies: both infection treatments showed the same age-dependent decline in survivorship. (B) male flies: cuticle inoculated flies showed a strong decrease in survival while aging, whereas pathogen injected flies showed only a minimal change in survivorship. Uninfected control flies showed minimal mortality during this time frame (see text). Error bars show ± SE; significance of comparisons shown by ***P < 0.001.