Figure 5.

Survival of larvae injected with saline (control), naked PAMAM-CNTs, dsRNA or PAMAM-CNT-dsRNA at 96 h post-injection. Larvae were assessed every 24 h for mortality. PAMAM-CNT-dsRNAmtpol injected larvae (A) had significantly increased mortality compared with dsRNAmtpol alone (P < 0.05). PAMAM-CNT-dsRNAαtub injected larvae (B) had significantly increased mortality compared with dsRNAαtub alone (P = 0.041). The data are presented as means ± SEM (4 replicate groups, n = 10–11 per group). Different letters indicate significant difference in survival between treatments (a > b > c).