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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Jan 20.
Published in final edited form as: Science. 2021 Jan 22;371(6527):411–415. doi: 10.1126/science.abd4359

Fig. 4. Silencing of desat1 changes the CHC profile of male mosquitoes.

Fig. 4.

(A) Representative CHC profile of virgin male An. stephensi mosquitoes. Numbers above the peaks correspond to peak numbers given in table S2. (B and C) Comparison of CHCs between mosquitoes injected with dsGFP and dsdesat1. Silencing of desat1 resulted in a significant reduction of the relative percentage of tricosane (peak 3) (B) and heptacosane (peak 7) (C). (D) Effect of the CHCs tricosane and heptacosane on mosquito mating activity. Perfuming Anopheles virgin males with tricosane did not alter mating activity, whereas perfuming males with heptacosane significantly increased female insemination. Error bars indicate SEMs. *P < 0.05 (Student’s t test).