Fig. 1From: Mosquito age and avian malaria infectionSchematic representation of the experimental design. Black bird uninfected blood meal; red birds Plasmodium-infected blood meal; h3, h7, h17: haemolymph sampling from 3, 7 and 17-day old mosquitoes, respectively. Haemolymph was sampled immediately before the blood meal on a separate sample of mosquitoes (haemocyte extraction is destructive). Young, old-unfed and old-blood fed mosquitoes are colour marked and fed from the same bird (n = 5 different birds)Back to article page