Fig. 1

Schematic visualization of the overall experiment. A Experimental design of SIP experiments. The full squares represent one cage with the number of mosquitoes indicated inside. The dotted squares represent non-fed mosquitoes collected at emergence. B Experimental design of ¹³C-metabolomic experiments. The full squares represent one cage with the number of mosquitoes indicated inside. The number of collected mosquitoes for each type of replicate is indicated into the squares. G, guts; WM, whole mosquitoes