Insights into arbovirus evolution and adaptation from experimental studies

Viruses

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2594-2617

  Ciota, Alexander T ^a,b   Kramer, Laura D ^a,b  

^a WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Arbovirus; Host cycling; Mutant swarm dynamics; Viral evolution; Viral fitness

Indexed keywords

SINGLE STRANDED RNA; VIRUS RNA;

AEDES ALBOPICTUS; ALPHA VIRUS; ARBOVIRUS; BOTTLENECK POPULATION; CELL CYCLE; CULEX PIPIENS; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FLAVIVIRUS; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOST RANGE; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; RHABDOVIRUS; VIRUS CARRIER; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS MUTANT; VIRUS SURVIVAL; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ARBOVIRUS; DENGUE VIRUS; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79952140035     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/v2122594     Document Type: Review

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