Population bottlenecks and founder effects: implications for mosquito-borne arboviral emergence

SC Weaver, NL Forrester, J Liu… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Transmission of arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses) involves infection and replication in
both arthropod vectors and vertebrate hosts. Nearly all arboviruses are RNA viruses with …

The role of temperature in shaping mosquito-borne viruses transmission

R Bellone, AB Failloux - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Mosquito-borne diseases having the greatest impact on human health are typically
prevalent in the tropical belt of the world. However, these diseases are conquering …

An amplicon-based sequencing framework for accurately measuring intrahost virus diversity using PrimalSeq and iVar

ND Grubaugh, K Gangavarapu, J Quick, NL Matteson… - Genome biology, 2019 - Springer
How viruses evolve within hosts can dictate infection outcomes; however, reconstructing this
process is challenging. We evaluate our multiplexed amplicon approach, PrimalSeq, to …

A pan-serotype dengue virus inhibitor targeting the NS3–NS4B interaction

SJF Kaptein, O Goethals, D Kiemel, A Marchand… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Dengue virus causes approximately 96 million symptomatic infections annually, manifesting
as dengue fever or occasionally as severe dengue,. There are no antiviral agents available …

Genetic drift during systemic arbovirus infection of mosquito vectors leads to decreased relative fitness during host switching

ND Grubaugh, J Weger-Lucarelli, RA Murrieta… - Cell host & …, 2016 - cell.com
The emergence of mosquito-borne RNA viruses, such as West Nile virus (WNV), is facilitated
by genetically complex virus populations within hosts. Here, we determine whether WNV …

Genetic drift, purifying selection and vector genotype shape dengue virus intra-host genetic diversity in mosquitoes

S Lequime, A Fontaine, M Ar Gouilh… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Due to their error-prone replication, RNA viruses typically exist as a diverse population of
closely related genomes, which is considered critical for their fitness and adaptive potential …

Using Wolbachia to Eliminate Dengue: Will the Virus Fight Back?

KM Edenborough, HA Flores, CP Simmons… - Journal of …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Recent field trials have demonstrated that dengue incidence can be substantially reduced
by introgressing strains of the endosymbiotic bacterium Wolbachia into Aedes aegypti …

Mosquitoes transmit unique West Nile virus populations during each feeding episode

ND Grubaugh, JR Fauver, C Rückert, J Weger-Lucarelli… - Cell reports, 2017 - cell.com
Summary Arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses), such as Zika virus, chikungunya virus, and
West Nile virus (WNV), pose continuous threats to emerge and cause large epidemics …

Genomic approaches for understanding dengue: insights from the virus, vector, and host

S Sim, ML Hibberd - Genome biology, 2016 - Springer
The incidence and geographic range of dengue have increased dramatically in recent
decades. Climate change, rapid urbanization and increased global travel have facilitated the …

[HTML][HTML] Virus population dynamics during infection

EZ Poirier, M Vignuzzi - Current opinion in virology, 2017 - Elsevier
Highlights•RNA virus replication gives rise to a cloud of variants containing mutations,
insertions and deletions, some of which contribute to evolution.•Virus population diversity …