Article
Inheritance of oral susceptibility of Aedes aegypti to Chikungunya virus.
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene - 1 Sept 1994
Mourya D T, Gokhale M D, Malunjkar A S, Bhat H R, Banerjee K
Abstract excerpt
A colony of rosy eye mutants of Aedes aegypti was established. This strain was refractory to Chikungunya virus by oral route of infection when compared with the wild-type parent strain. The refractoriness of this strain seems to be due to a mesentronal barrier, since both the mosquito strains sup...
Topics
- Aedes
- Animals
- Antigens, Viral
- Chickens
- Chikungunya virus
- Female
- Genes, Insect
- Male
- Mice
- Mutation