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First published online August 9, 2007
Journal of Experimental Biology 210, 2939-2947 (2007)
Published by The Company of Biologists 2007
doi: 10.1242/jeb.005033
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Nature beats nurture: a case study of the physiological fitness of free-living and laboratory-reared male Anopheles gambiae s.l.

B. J. Huho1,2,*, K. R. Ng'habi1,2, G. F. Killeen1,3, G. Nkwengulila2, B. G. J. Knols4 and H. M. Ferguson1,4,5

1 Public Health Entomology Unit, Ifakara Health Research and Development Centre, PO Box 53, Off Mlabani Passage Ifakara, Tanzania
2 Department of Zoology and Marine Biology, University of Dar es Salaam, PO Box 35064, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
3 School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, UK
4 Laboratory of Entomology, Wageningen University and Research Centre, PO Box 8031 6700 EH Wageningen, The Netherlands
5 Division of Infection and Immunity, and Division of Environmental and Evolutionary Biology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8TA, UK


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  		Fig. 1. Frequency distribution of masses of three key energy reserves detected in field-collected (A,C,E; grey bars) and laboratory-reared (B,D,F; white bars) male An. gambiae s.s.

 

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  		Fig. 2. Relationship between body size and three key energetic reserves in laboratory-reared (A,C,E; open circles) and free-living (B,D,F; black circles) male An. gambiae s.s.

 

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  		Fig. 3. Relationship between body size and three key energetic reserves in free-living male An. arabiensis (A-C; open circles) and An. gambiae s.s. (D-F; black circles).

 




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