Article
Arboviral Bottlenecks and Challenges to Maintaining Diversity and Fitness during Mosquito Transmission
23 Oct 2014
Abstract excerpt
The term arbovirus denotes viruses that are transmitted by arthropods, such as ticks, mosquitoes, and other biting arthropods. The infection of these vectors produces a certain set of evolutionary pressures on the virus; involving migration from the midgut, where the blood meal containing the virus is processed, to the salivary glands, in order to transmit the virus to the next host. During this process the virus...
Read the complete abstract on PubMedTopics
Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.
