Fig. 2: Exposure to heat increases Ae. albopictus tolerance to CFAV infection.
From: Prolonged exposure to heat enhances mosquito tolerance to viral infection
Survival probability of (A) mosquitoes kept at standard conditions (Std), (B) warm-acclimated (Acc) and (C) warm-evolved (Evo) mosquitoes after mock infection (media) or infection with five different concentrations of CFAV (105, 104, 103, 102, 10 viral particles). In all graphs, we used the Kaplan–Meier survival analysis with a cox proportional hazard test to determine the effect of CFAV infection on mosquito survival. D Tolerance curves of warm-acclimated (pink), warm-evolved (red) and mosquitoes kept at standard conditions (blue) were built by plotting mosquito survival time after infection versus the log10 scale of infecting dose. E Best fit values of vigour, severity and sensitivity, and their 95% confidence intervals (CI) were plotted for each thermal regime. Tolerance parameters were compared based on the non-overlapping 95% CI (Supplementary Data 1). Each point represents an individual mosquito, and lines are logistic fits of the data. Significant result as follows: **P-value < 0.01, ***P-value < 0.001, ****P-value < 0.0001.
