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From: Developmental plasticity and the evolution of parasitism in an unusual nematode, Parastrongyloides trichosuri

Figure 4

The effect of various incubation temperatures on the proportion of P. trichosuri iL3 development in response to conditioned medium concentration. P. trichosuri L1 larvae at one individual per microliter were incubated at either: 14°C, 20°C or 26.5°C with gentamicin sulfate at 50 μg/μL, and 0.35% HB101 as food source and serially diluted conditioned medium. Solid line and circle is 14°C, n = 5234; dashed line and open is 20°C, n = 7847; dotted line and cross is 26.5°C, n = 7937. On day 5, the proportion of larvae that had developed into iL3 was scored in six replicate wells. The lower the temperature in which the P. trichosuri were raised, the more likely they develop as infective larvae.

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