Genetic diversity and purifying selection in West Nile virus populations are maintained during host switching

Virology

Volumn 374, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 256-260

  Jerzak, Greta V S ^a   Brown, Ivy ^b   Shi, Pei Yong ^a   Kramer, Laura D ^a   Ebel, Gregory D ^b  

^a WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arbovirus; Flavivirus; Host switching; Natural selection; Quasispecies; West Nile virus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIRD; CHICKEN; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS CARRIER; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS PURIFICATION; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CHICKENS; CRICETINAE; CULEX; FEMALE; GENOME, VIRAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; PHYLOGENY; POULTRY DISEASES; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SERIAL PASSAGE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; VARIATION (GENETICS); WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

ARBOVIRUS; AVES; FLAVIVIRUS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 42649093459     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: 10960341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2008.02.032     Document Type: Article

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