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Table 1 Percentage of population fed for C.p . f. molestus and C.p. f. pipiens PENN when fed preferred vs. non-preferred blood types [following 28, 31, 33]

From: Daily blood feeding rhythms of laboratory-reared North American Culex pipiens

  N    
Strain Total fed horse blood Total fed goose blood Elapsed time (h) Horse blood Goose blood
C.p. f. molestus 88 92 3 4.9 (1.1, 9.7) 0 (0,0)
    6 20.4 (7.4, 34.3) 11.8 (3.7, 20.7)
    9 38.9 (28.4, 49.0) 24.3 (8.5, 42.7)
    12 17.0 (3.3, 34.0) 27.0 (20.3, 34.8(
    15 11.3 (1.1, 23.9) 28.8 (15.5, 42.0)
    >24 7.7 (0, 14.1) 7.9 (0, 12.5)
C.p. f. pipiens PENN 197 115 3 57.1 (41.0, 75.7) 61.0 (52.0, 71.3)
    6 38.7 (20.0, 56.0) 31.8 (24.3, 39.0)
    9 2.5 (0, 5.8) 2.4 (0.7, 4.4)
    12 1.6 (0, 5.0) 3.0 (0.7, 5.6)
    15 0 (0, 0) 0.02 (0, 0.1)
    >24 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 0)
  1. Preferred blood types for each population are in italics. Ninety-five percent confidence intervals were calculated via parametric bootstrapping (N = 5000).