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Abstract
The present study was conducted to determine the effect of blood meal type on reproductive performance of Culex pipiens. Adult female mosquitoes were starved for 24 hours, and then allowed to feed on blood meals from four different hosts, human, mice, chicken and pigeon. 6.1. Complete blood count (CBC) Red blood cells count was high in human and pigeon blood samples compared with chicken and mice blood. White blood cells count was high in avian blood samples compared with mammalian blood samples. Red blood cells in avian blood are nucleated while those of mammals are enucleated. White blood cells are nucleated in our entire hosts. Human and pigeon blood samples had high hemoglobin content compared with chicken and mice blood samples. Generally, hemoglobin content was highly significant in the blood of four hosts. 6.2. Total protein determination Human blood has the highest protein content 74.1 mg/ml, followed by the total blood protein of mice (69.54 mg/ml) > chicken (56.43 mg/ml) > pigeon (33.6 mg/ml). Meanwhile protein determination using SDS revealed that protein bands were numerous in avian blood (pigeon and chicken) (13 and11 bands respectively) than in mammalian blood (mice and human) (8 and 9 bands respectively). Avian blood contains lower molecular weight proteins than mammalian blood. The avian blood contains protein bands 15, 27 and 75kDa that not found in mammalian blood.