West Nile virus population genetics and evolution

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 181-190

  Pesko, Kendra N ^a   Ebel, Gregory D ^a  

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

Author keywords

Fitness; Molecular epidemiology; Pathogenesis; Population genetics; West Nile virus

Indexed keywords

ENVELOPE PROTEIN; INTERFERON; RNA;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CROSS REACTION; CULEX PIPIENS; ENCEPHALITIS; EPIDEMIC; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; VIREMIA; VIRUS CLASSIFICATION; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VIRUS VIRULENCE; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENETIC FITNESS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

AVES; FLAVIVIRIDAE; FLAVIVIRUS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 84857653507     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: 15677257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2011.11.014     Document Type: Review

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