Quantification of intrahost bottlenecks of West Nile virus in Culex pipiens mosquitoes using an artificial mutant swarm

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 557-564

  Ciota, Alexander T ^a,b   Ehrbar, Dylan J ^a   Van Slyke, Greta A ^a   Payne, Anne F ^a   Willsey, Graham G ^a   Viscio, Rachael E ^a   Kramer, Laura D ^a,b  

^a WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Arbovirus evolution; Culex pipiens; Flavivirus; Intrahost bottlenecks; Intrahost diversity; West Nile virus

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ARBOVIRUS; ARTICLE; BOTTLENECK POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX PIPIENS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INSECT SWARM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA VIRUS; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; VIRUS STRAIN; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CULEX; DNA, VIRAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; INSECT VECTORS; SALIVARY GLANDS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TIME FACTORS; VERO CELLS; VIRAL LOAD; VIRUS REPLICATION; WEST NILE VIRUS;

ARBOVIRUS; CULEX PIPIENS; FLAVIVIRUS; MOSQUITO-BORNE VIRUSES; RNA VIRUSES; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 84858866535     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: 15677257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2012.01.022     Document Type: Article

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