Fig. 7: Desiccation sensitivity of GSS eggs. | Nature Communications

Fig. 7: Desiccation sensitivity of GSS eggs.

From: Mosquito sex separation using complementation of selectable traits and engineered neo-sex chromosomes

Fig. 7

A Hatching rates of stored wild-type (WT) and genetic sexing strain (GSS) eggs tracked over one month. Hatching rates were calculated as the proportion of eggs that successfully developed into L2 larvae, based on three independent biological replicates per time point. Data are presented as the mean value ± SEM. Significant effects of strain and storage duration were detected (ANCOVA: F₁,₁₈ = 10.97, p = 0.0039; 0.0060, respectively). Letter groupings were determined using post-hoc Tukey’s HSD tests (α = 0.05). Source data are provided as a Source Data file. B Time-lapse images of mature, 4-day-old eggs from WT and GSS cages mounted on a dry glass slide and photographed one- and six-minutes following removal from moist egg papers.

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