Chikungunya Virus 3′ Untranslated Region: Adaptation to Mosquitoes and a Population Bottleneck as Major Evolutionary Forces

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Chen, Rubing ^a   Wang, Eryu ^a   Tsetsarkin, Konstantin A ^a,b   Weaver, Scott C ^a  

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

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHIKUNGUNYA ALPHAVIRUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOSQUITO; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VERO CELL; VIRUS REPLICATION; ALPHAVIRUS INFECTION; ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; ASIA; CELL LINE; CHIKUNGUNYA; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ALPHAVIRUS INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; ASIA; CELL LINE; CHIKUNGUNYA FEVER; CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC DRIFT; MICE; MUTATION;

EID: 84883340196     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003591     Document Type: Article

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