West Nile virus may have hitched a ride across the Western United States on Culex tarsalis mosquitoes: NEWS and VIEWS

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1518-1519

  Goldberg, Tony L ^a   Anderson, Tavis K ^a   Hamer, Gabriel L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Culex tarsalis; Epidemiology; Phylogeography; West Nile virus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CULEX; DISEASE CARRIER; GENE FLOW; GENETICS; POPULATION GENETICS; UNITED STATES; VIROLOGY; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

ANIMALS; CULEX; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; GENE FLOW; GENETICS, POPULATION; INSECT VECTORS; UNITED STATES; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

AVES; CULEX TARSALIS; HEXAPODA; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 77950290115     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04578.x     Document Type: Article

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