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

Role of mutational reversions and fitness restoration in Zika virus spread to the Americas

(2021) Jianying Liu et al.   Nature Communications

The response to re-emergence of yellow fever in Nigeria, 2017

(2020) William E. Nwachukwu et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

“Submergence” of Western equine encephalitis virus: Evidence of positive selection argues against genetic drift and fitness reductions

(2020) Nicholas A. Bergren et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Does winter cold really limit the dengue vector Aedes aegypti in Europe?

(2020) Isabelle M. Kramer et al.   Parasites & Vectors

Non-retroviral Endogenous Viral Element Limits Cognate Virus Replication in Aedes aegypti Ovaries

(2020) Yasutsugu Suzuki et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

A Zika virus envelope mutation preceding the 2015 epidemic enhances virulence and fitness for transmission

(2020) Chao Shan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Chikungunya as a paradigm for emerging viral diseases: Evaluating disease impact and hurdles to vaccine development

(2019) Giovanni Rezza et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Past and future spread of the arbovirus vectors Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus

(2019) Moritz U. G. Kraemer et al.   Nature Microbiology

Naturally infected Aedes aegypti collected during a Zika virus outbreak have viral titres consistent with transmission

(2019) Sasha R. Azar et al.   Emerging Microbes & Infections

Genome sequencing reveals coinfection by multiple chikungunya virus genotypes in a recent outbreak in Brazil

(2019) Lais Ceschini Machado et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase mutants display an altered mutation spectrum resulting in attenuation in both mosquito and vertebrate hosts

(2019) K. Lane Warmbrod et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Tolerance of three Aedes albopictus strains (Diptera: Culicidae) from different geographical origins towards winter temperatures under field conditions in northern Germany

(2019) Lisa Tippelt et al.   PLoS One

Vector Competence: What Has Zika Virus Taught Us?

(2019) Sasha R. Azar et al.   Viruses-Basel

Chikungunya Virus: Role of Vectors in Emergence from Enzootic Cycles

(2019) Scott C. Weaver et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Support for the Transmission-Clearance Trade-Off Hypothesis from a Study of Zika Virus Delivered by Mosquito Bite to Mice

(2019) Kathryn A. Hanley et al.   Viruses-Basel

Patterns, Drivers, and Challenges of Vector-Borne Disease Emergence

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Successive blood meals enhance virus dissemination within mosquitoes and increase transmission potential

(2019) Philip M. Armstrong et al.   Nature Microbiology

African and Asian Zika Virus Isolates Display Phenotypic Differences Both In Vitro and In Vivo

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Zika, Chikungunya, and Other Emerging Vector-Borne Viral Diseases

(2018) Scott C. Weaver et al.   Annual Review of Medicine

MEGA X: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis across Computing Platforms

(2018) Sudhir Kumar et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Structural divergence creates new functional features in alphavirus genomes

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Using barcoded Zika virus to assess virus population structure in vitro and in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes

(2018) James Weger-Lucarelli et al.   VIROLOGY

Chikungunya Virus Strains Show Lineage-Specific Variations in Virulence and Cross-Protective Ability in Murine and Nonhuman Primate Models

(2018) Rose M. Langsjoen et al.   mBio

Monitoring and redirecting virus evolution

(2018) Gonzalo Moratorio et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Molecularly barcoded Zika virus libraries to probe in vivo evolutionary dynamics

(2018) Matthew T. Aliota et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Limited Interdecadal Variation in Mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) and Avian Host Competence for Western Equine Encephalomyelitis Virus (Togaviridae: Alphavirus)

(2018) William K. Reisen et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE

Colonized Sabethes cyaneus, a Sylvatic New World Mosquito Species, Shows a Low Vector Competence for Zika Virus Relative to Aedes aegypti

(2018) Ajit K. Karna et al.   Viruses-Basel

Epidemiological Evidence for Lineage-specific Differences in the Risk of Inapparent Chikungunya Virus Infection

(2018) Fausto Bustos Carrillo et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

Ultrastructural Analysis of Chikungunya Virus Dissemination from the Midgut of the Yellow Fever Mosquito, Aedes aegypti

(2018) Asher Kantor et al.   Viruses-Basel

The recently identified flavivirus Bamaga virus is transmitted horizontally by Culex mosquitoes and interferes with West Nile virus replication in vitro and transmission in vivo

(2018) Agathe M. G. Colmant et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Inter- and intra-host sequence diversity reveal the emergence of viral variants during an overwintering epidemic caused by dengue virus serotype 2 in southern Taiwan

(2018) Hui-Ying Ko et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Restriction of Zika virus infection and transmission in Aedes aegypti mediated by an insect-specific flavivirus

(2018) Hannah Romo et al.   Emerging Microbes & Infections

Co-Infection of Mosquitoes with Chikungunya and Dengue Viruses Reveals Modulation of the Replication of Both Viruses in Midguts and Salivary Glands of Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes

(2017) Alain Le Coupanec et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES

Spread of yellow fever virus outbreak in Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo 2015–16: a modelling study

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Evolutionary enhancement of Zika virus infectivity in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes

(2017) Yang Liu et al.   NATURE

Establishment and cryptic transmission of Zika virus in Brazil and the Americas

(2017) N. R. Faria et al.   NATURE

Genomic epidemiology reveals multiple introductions of Zika virus into the United States

(2017) Nathan D. Grubaugh et al.   NATURE

Yellow Fever — Once Again on the Radar Screen in the Americas

(2017) Catharine I. Paules et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Abundance and distribution of sylvatic dengue virus vectors in three different land cover types in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo

(2017) Katherine I. Young et al.   Parasites & Vectors

Mosquitoes Transmit Unique West Nile Virus Populations during Each Feeding Episode

(2017) Nathan D. Grubaugh et al.   Cell Reports

Chikungunya virus dissemination from the midgut of Aedes aegypti is associated with temporal basal lamina degradation during bloodmeal digestion

(2017) Shengzhang Dong et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Mosquitoes on a plane: Disinsection will not stop the spread of vector-borne pathogens, a simulation study

(2017) Luis Mier-y-Teran-Romero et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Mosquito cell-derived West Nile virus replicon particles mimic arbovirus inoculum and have reduced spread in mice

(2017) Brendan T. Boylan et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Parallel ClickSeq and Nanopore sequencing elucidates the rapid evolution of defective-interfering RNAs in Flock House virus

(2017) Elizabeth Jaworski et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Genetic Drift during Systemic Arbovirus Infection of Mosquito Vectors Leads to Decreased Relative Fitness during Host Switching

(2016) Nathan D. Grubaugh et al.   Cell Host & Microbe

Zika Virus

(2016) Didier Musso et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY REVIEWS

Comprehensive Genome Scale Phylogenetic Study Provides New Insights on the Global Expansion of Chikungunya Virus

(2016) Rubing Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

Interspecies transmission and chikungunya virus emergence

(2016) Konstantin A Tsetsarkin et al.   Current Opinion in Virology

Genetic Drift, Purifying Selection and Vector Genotype Shape Dengue Virus Intra-host Genetic Diversity in Mosquitoes

(2016) Sebastian Lequime et al.   PLoS Genetics

Molecular Virologic and Clinical Characteristics of a Chikungunya Fever Outbreak in La Romana, Dominican Republic, 2014

(2016) Rose M. Langsjoen et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Potential for Zika Virus to Establish a Sylvatic Transmission Cycle in the Americas

(2016) Benjamin M. Althouse et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Whole-Genome Sequencing Analysis from the Chikungunya Virus Caribbean Outbreak Reveals Novel Evolutionary Genomic Elements

(2016) Kenneth A. Stapleford et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Vector Competence of American Mosquitoes for Three Strains of Zika Virus

(2016) James Weger-Lucarelli et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

First Report of Aedes aegypti Transmission of Chikungunya Virus in the Americas

(2015) Esteban E. Díaz-González et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE

Emergence and potential for spread of Chikungunya virus in Brazil

(2015) Marcio Roberto Teixeira Nunes et al.   BMC Medicine

Potential for Co-Infection of a Mosquito-Specific Flavivirus, Nhumirim Virus, to Block West Nile Virus Transmission in Mosquitoes

(2015) Silvina Goenaga et al.   Viruses-Basel

Tissue Barriers to Arbovirus Infection in Mosquitoes

(2015) Alexander Franz et al.   Viruses-Basel

High Rate of Subclinical Chikungunya Virus Infection and Association of Neutralizing Antibody with Protection in a Prospective Cohort in The Philippines

(2015) In-Kyu Yoon et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Tracking Dengue Virus Intra-host Genetic Diversity during Human-to-Mosquito Transmission

(2015) Shuzhen Sim et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Emergence and Transmission of Arbovirus Evolutionary Intermediates with Epidemic Potential

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Emergence of chikungunya fever on the French side of Saint Martin island, October to December 2013

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Western Equine Encephalitis Virus: Evolutionary Analysis of a Declining Alphavirus Based on Complete Genome Sequences

(2014) N. A. Bergren et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

Chikungunya in the Americas

(2014) Isabelle Leparc-Goffart et al.   LANCET

The Insect Microbiome Modulates Vector Competence for Arboviruses

(2014) Natapong Jupatanakul et al.   Viruses-Basel

Arboviral Bottlenecks and Challenges to Maintaining Diversity and Fitness during Mosquito Transmission

(2014) Naomi Forrester et al.   Viruses-Basel

Multi-peaked adaptive landscape for chikungunya virus evolution predicts continued fitness optimization in Aedes albopictus mosquitoes

(2014) Konstantin A. Tsetsarkin et al.   Nature Communications

Zika Virus in Gabon (Central Africa) – 2007: A New Threat from Aedes albopictus?

(2014) Gilda Grard et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Role of the Vector in Arbovirus Transmission

(2014) Michael J. Conway et al.   Annual Review of Virology

The global distribution and burden of dengue

(2013) Samir Bhatt et al.   NATURE

Chikungunya Virus 3′ Untranslated Region: Adaptation to Mosquitoes and a Population Bottleneck as Major Evolutionary Forces

(2013) Rubing Chen et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Quantification of intrahost bottlenecks of West Nile virus in Culex pipiens mosquitoes using an artificial mutant swarm

(2012) Alexander T. Ciota et al.   INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Specific and Nonspecific Host Adaptation during Arboviral Experimental Evolution

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Infection of Aedes albopictus with Chikungunya Virus Rectally Administered by Enema

(2012) John T. Nuckols et al.   VECTOR-BORNE AND ZOONOTIC DISEASES

Flavivirus infection from mosquitoes in vitro reveals cell entry at the plasma membrane

(2012) Ricardo Vancini et al.   VIROLOGY

Genetic and Anatomic Determinants of Enzootic Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Virus Infection of Culex (Melanoconion) taeniopus

(2012) Joan L. Kenney et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Genetic Characterization of Zika Virus Strains: Geographic Expansion of the Asian Lineage

(2012) Andrew D. Haddow et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Vector-Borne Transmission Imposes a Severe Bottleneck on an RNA Virus Population

(2012) Naomi L. Forrester et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Chikungunya virus emergence is constrained in Asia by lineage-specific adaptive landscapes

(2011) K. A. Tsetsarkin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

West Nile Virus Experimental Evolution in vivo and the Trade-off Hypothesis

(2011) Eleanor R. Deardorff et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Dengue: a continuing global threat

(2010) Maria G. Guzman et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Molecular evolution of dengue viruses: Contributions of phylogenetics to understanding the history and epidemiology of the preeminent arboviral disease

(2009) Scott C. Weaver et al.   INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Chikungunya Virus and Aedes Mosquitoes: Saliva Is Infectious as soon as Two Days after Oral Infection

(2009) Mathieu Dubrulle et al.   PLoS One

The reality and importance of founder speciation in evolution

(2008) Alan R. Templeton   BIOESSAYS

Arbovirus evolution in vivo is constrained by host alternation

(2008) L. L. Coffey et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Chikungunya virus adapts to tiger mosquito via evolutionary convergence: a sign of things to come?

(2008) Xavier de Lamballerie et al.   Virology Journal

Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus in the mosquito vector Aedes taeniorhynchus: Infection initiated by a small number of susceptible epithelial cells and a population bottleneck

(2007) Darci R. Smith et al.   VIROLOGY