Population variation of West Nile virus confers a host-specific fitness benefit in mosquitoes

Virology

Volumn 404, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 89-95

  Fitzpatrick, Kelly A ^a   Deardorff, Eleanor R ^a   Pesko, Kendra ^a   Brackney, Doug E ^a   Zhang, Bo ^b   Bedrick, Edward ^a   Shi, Pei Yong ^c   Ebel, Gregory D ^a  

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

^b WUHAN INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (China)

^c NOVARTIS INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL DISEASES   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Arbovirus; Fitness; Flavivirus; Mosquitoes; Quasispecies; West Nile virus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOST RANGE; IN VIVO STUDY; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS CARRIER; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

AEDES; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CHICKENS; CRICETINAE; CULEX; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; PLAQUE ASSAY; VIRAL LOAD; WEST NILE VIRUS;

ARBOVIRUS; CULEX PIPIENS QUINQUEFASCIATUS; FLAVIVIRUS; GALLUS GALLUS; RNA VIRUSES; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 77953698834     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: 10960341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2010.04.029     Document Type: Article

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