Vector-Borne Transmission Imposes a Severe Bottleneck on an RNA Virus Population

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Forrester, Naomi L ^a   Guerbois, Mathilde ^a   Seymour, Robert L ^a   Spratt, Heidi ^b   Weaver, Scott C ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CULEX; INTESTINE INFECTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALIVARY GLAND; SALIVARY GLAND DISEASE; VENEZUELAN EQUINE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS ALPHAVIRUS; VERO CELL; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CRICETINAE; CULEX; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, VENEZUELAN EQUINE; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, VENEZUELAN EQUINE; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC VARIATION; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; INSECT VECTORS; MICE; MUTATION; VERO CELLS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ARBOVIRUS; CULEX TAENIOPUS; MAMMALIA; RNA VIRUSES; VENEZUELAN EQUINE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS;

EID: 84866939176     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002897     Document Type: Article

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