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TWiV 581: Alimentary particles

  • January 5, 2020
  • Tagged as: Aedes aegypti, Aedes albopictus, antibiotic, antibody, arbovirus, blood meal, H1N1, h3n2, influenza vaccine, microbiome, mosquito, vector competence, viral, virology, virus

For the first TWiV of 2020 we reveal that microbiome depletion with antibiotics alters the immune response to influenza vaccine, and how successive blood meals facilitate virus dissemination in mosquitoes and transmission potential.

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TWiV 451: Expectorate the unexpected

  • July 23, 2017
  • Tagged as: blood meal, chestnut blight fungus, diversity, dsRNA, evolution, flavivirus, hypovirulence, mosquito, mycovirus, nonsynonymous mutations, saliva, synonymous mutations, viral, virology, virus, west nile virus
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The TWiV scientists reveal that mosquitoes transmit different West Nile virus populations with each blood meal, only to have the diversity purged in a bird host.

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