Merida virus, a putative novel rhabdovirus discovered in culex and ochlerotatus spp. Mosquitoes in the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 977-987

  Charles, Jermilia ^a   Firth, Andrew E ^b   Loroño Pino, Maria A ^c   Garcia Rejon, Julian E ^c   Farfan Ale, Jose A ^c   Ian Lipkin, W ^d   Blitvich, Bradley J ^a   Briese, Thomas ^d  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE YUCATÁN   (Mexico)

^d Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; MATRIX PROTEIN; NUCLEOPROTEIN; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; VIRAL PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; MALE; MERIDA VIRUS; MEXICO; NONHUMAN; OCHLEROTATUS; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHABDOVIRIDAE; AEDES; ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; CHLOROCEBUS AETHIOPS; CLASSIFICATION; CULEX; GENETICS; GENOME SIZE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HOST RANGE; INSECT VECTOR; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; VERO CELL LINE; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENOME;

AEDES; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; BASE SEQUENCE; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CULEX; FEMALE; GENOME SIZE; GENOME, VIRAL; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HOST SPECIFICITY; INSECT VECTORS; MALE; MEXICO; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OCHLEROTATUS; PHYLOGENY; RHABDOVIRIDAE; RNA, VIRAL; VERO CELLS; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 84963724008     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: 14652099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jgv.0.000424     Document Type: Article

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