Fig. 2: The effect of sex, age, and harmonic convergence on bacterial growth and mosquito mortality.

Bacterial growth of Escherichia coli after 24 h in vivo incubation in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes injected with 200,000 live bacteria and housed at 27 °C (n = 577). Boxes are boxplots of the interquartile range with medians for each treatment group, whiskers represent the first and third quartiles, and points are outliers in the data. Males and females are represented by the colors gray and red, respectively. a The effect of sex, age, and parental convergence status on bacterial growth. Solid and dotted lines represent mosquito offspring from parental pairs that did not converge and that did converge, respectively. Significant pairwise comparisons are indicated in Table S4. b The effect of mating status (Virgin or unmated vs. Mated) on bacterial growth for males (gray) and females (red) (n = 305 observations). c The effect of mosquito age (Days Post-Emergence) on the mortality of male (gray) and female (red) mosquitoes 24 h post-challenge with live bacteria (n = 121 observations).