Ecological and genetic analyses of the complete genomes of culex flavivirus strains isolated from culex tritaeniorhynchus and culex pipiens (Diptera: Culicidae) group mosquitoes

Journal of Medical Entomology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 300-309

  Obara Nagoya, M ^a   Yamauchi, T ^a   Watanabe, M ^b   Hasegawa, S ^a   Iwai Itamochi, M ^a   Horimoto, E ^a   Takizawa, T ^a   Takashima, I ^c   Kariwa, H ^d  

^a TOYAMA INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^c TENSHI COLLEGE   (Japan)

^d HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Culex flavivirus; Culex pipiens group; Culex tritaeniorhynchus; Japan

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CULEX; FLAVIVIRUS; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; JAPAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENOME;

ANIMALS; CULEX; FLAVIVIRUS; GENOME, VIRAL; JAPAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 84874876029     PISSN: 00222585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/ME12159     Document Type: Article

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