Development of a new Sindbis virus transducing system and its characterization in three Culicine mosquitoes and two Lepidopteran species

Insect Molecular Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 89-100

  Foy, B D ^a   Myles, K M ^b   Pierro, D J ^a   Sanchez Vargas, I ^a   Uhlirova M ^c   Jindra, M ^d   Beaty, B J ^a   Olson, K E ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^d INSTITUTE OF ENTOMOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Alphavirus; Bombyx; Manduca; Mosquito; Sindbis; Viral dissemination

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PHOTOPROTEIN; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOSQUITO; MOTH; PLASMID; SINDBIS VIRUS; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; CULICIDAE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DNA PRIMERS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MOTHS; PLASMIDS; SINDBIS VIRUS; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ALPHAVIRUS; ANIMALIA; BOMBYX; BOMBYX MORI; CULEX PIPIENS; CULEX PIPIENS PIPIENS; CULEX TRITAENIORHYNCHUS; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; MANDUCA; MANDUCA SEXTA; PROKARYOTA; SINDBIS VIRUS;

EID: 1242300171     PISSN: 09621075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2583.2004.00464.x     Document Type: Article

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