Heterologous reassortment of bunyaviruses in Aedes triseriatus mosquitoes and transovarial and oral transmission of newly evolved genotypes.

doi:10.1099/0022-1317-71-5-1045

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Heterologous reassortment of bunyaviruses in Aedes triseriatus mosquitoes and transovarial and oral transmission of newly evolved genotypes.

The Journal of general virology - 1 May 1990

Chandler L J, Beaty B J, Baldridge G D, Bishop D H, Hewlett M J

Abstract excerpt

Aedes triseriatus mosquitoes were orally infected with two different California serogroup bunyaviruses (La Crosse and snowshoe hare viruses) and high frequency reassortment occurred in these mosquitoes. Increased viral replication and subsequent gene segment reassortment was noted in the ovaries...

Topics

Aedes
Animals
Bunyaviridae
Cell Line
Encephalitis Virus, California
Female
Mice
Oviposition
Ovum
Phenotype
Temperature
Virus Replication

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