Modeling the effects of Aedes aegypti’s larval environment on adult body mass at emergence
Fig 1
Experimental data on development time and survival.
(A) Development time, in days, of mosquitoes across all experiments, categorized by (left) sex and (right) density treatment. (B) Development time by mass group and density treatment. Box plots of each mass group emerging under (left) low density and (right) high density treatments. This includes mass data, but excludes stage data. In (A)-(B) red lines represent the median of the data; the blue box indicates the upper and lower limits of the interquartile range (IQR); whiskers indicate 2*IQR; and red plus signs represent outliers. (C) The proportion of mosquitoes which survive by density treatment and sex for each replicate of the low (left) and high (middle) density treatments. The mean and median survival proportion for all experiments by density (right). In (C), blue triangles represent females and red triangles males. The experiments are sorted by female survival proportion, where we assume 50% males and 50% females initially. As individual replicates may differ in their initial sex percentages, some calculated survival proportions are greater than one. (D) Female mosquito emergence by body mass group: < 1.5 mg (small) in blue, 1.5–2.5 mg (medium) in green and > 2.5 mg (large) in red. The top row is the low density treatment and the bottom row is high density.