Fig. 7

Quantifying uric acid metabolism in Ae. albopictus larvae by stage and infection status. A Positive Spearman correlation between uricase activity levels and uric acid concentrations measured in second- and fourth-instar larvae from four different infection statuses, B uric acid concentrations, C uricase activity levels, and D soluble protein contents measured in second- and fourth-instar larvae retrieved from four contrasted infection statuses (axenic, conventional, and two gnotobiotic larvae displaying the highest differences in terms of development time). These measurements were performed on 10 pools of 5 s-instar larvae and 10 pools of 5 fourth-instar larvae. Statistically significant differences between groups were identified with Tukey post hoc tests, and columns labelled with different letters are significantly different with a p-value < 0.05