Fig. 8
Age prediction of Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes collected as adults (and hence of unknown age) and retained in insectaries for 0, 4 or 8 days, using a model constructed from mosquitoes from larval and semi-field stations described in (Fig. 7). Adult female mosquitoes, collected from their natural environment, were used as unknown samples and identified using the combined age model (Fig. 7). The exact age was unknown; however, the mosquitoes were allowed to age further in the insectary to create three age groups: 0 (n = 299), 4 (n = 297) and 8 days old (n = 299). The previously built model was exported to the recognition software and used to sort the unknown samples into the four categories.
