Figure 5.

Fitness parameter measurements of TM in comparison to WM. (A) Oviposition, (B) Fertility, (C) Larval life span, (D) Adult male life span and (E) Adult female life span. Oviposition defined as the number of eggs per blood-fed female mosquitoes and female mosquitoes without any eggs laid was excluded from results; fecundity as the number of L1 larvae/number of eggs; larval life span as the number of days to become pupae from larvae; adult life span as the number of days to the death of the mosquitoes. Three replicates were performed for each experiment. Bars of A, B, C, D, and E represent the maximum value to the minimum value of the results of TM or WM. The unpaired t-test was performed to analyse the parameters between WM and TM. Significant differences at P < 0.05 are indicated by *. (TM: transgenic mosquito, WM: wild mosquito).