Figure 3.

Comparing the body volume and flight muscle of the two whitefly populations. Whitefly reared on tobacco or cotton for 10 generations were used for this study. Box plots were used to show the body volume (a), area of the whole section of pterothorax (b), area of flight muscle (c) and the ratio of flight muscle of whole section (d) of newly emerged whitefly. Open circles indicate outliers. (e) Image showing the pterothorax of whitefly corresponding to the individual that exhibit the near mean flight muscle area (0.030 mm² for cotton population; 0.429 mm² for tobacco population). Flight muscle (green) were labeled with Alex 647 conjugated phalloidin. n = 30. Statistically significant difference: **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001.