Mangrove Helps: Sonneratia alba-Synthesized Silver Nanoparticles Magnify Guppy Fish Predation Against Aedes aegypti Young Instars and Down-Regulate the Expression of Envelope (E) Gene in Dengue Virus (Serotype DEN-2)

Journal of Cluster Science

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 437-461

  Murugan, Kadarkarai ^a,b   Dinesh, Devakumar ^a   Paulpandi, Manickam ^a   Subramaniam, Jayapal ^a,i   Rakesh, R ^a   Amuthavalli, Pandiyan ^a   Panneerselvam, Chellasamy ^c   Suresh, Udaiyan ^a   Vadivalagan, Chitravel ^a   Alsalhi, Mohamad Saleh ^d   Devanesan, Sandhanasamy ^d   Wei, Hui ^e   Higuchi, Akon ^f   Nicoletti, Marcello ^g   Canale, Angelo ^h   Benelli, Giovanni ^h  

^a BHARATHIAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b THIRUVALLUVAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TABUK   (Saudi Arabia)

^d KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^e INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^f NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^g SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

ⁱ ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Arbovirus; Biosafety; Green synthesis; Poecilia reticulata; Sonneratia alba

Indexed keywords

EID: 84994754044     PISSN: 10407278     EISSN: 15728862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10876-016-1115-7     Document Type: Article

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