Effect of IR knockdown and nematode development on mosquito fecundity.

<p><i>C</i>. <i>quinquefasciatus</i> females were injected with either control (dseGFP) or CqIR (dsIR) dsRNA. 5 days post injection eGFP dsRNA injected mosquitoes were fed on uninfected blood (dseGFP-U) and mf-infected blood (dseGFP-I), and dsIR injected females were fed only on infected blood-fed (dsIR-I). Total number of eggs deposited by each set of mosquitoes was counted 7 days PBM. This experiment was replicated twice with different cohorts of mosquitoes and infected blood. Data from each set with mean and SEM is plotted. Different letters above a given bar indicate means that significantly differ (F _{2, 39} = 260.1; P<0.0001). One-way ANOVA and Tukey's multiple comparisons test were used.