Alteration in the Culex pipiens transcriptome reveals diverse mechanisms of the mosquito immune system implicated upon Rift Valley fever phlebovirus exposure.

• Main Authors: Ana I Núñez (Author), Anna Esteve-Codina (Author), Jèssica Gómez-Garrido (Author), Marco Brustolin (Author), Sandra Talavera (Author), Miguel Berdugo (Author), Marc Dabad (Author), Tyler Alioto (Author), Albert Bensaid (Author), Núria Busquets (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z.
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Rift Valley fever phlebovirus (RVFV) causes an emerging zoonotic disease and is mainly transmitted by Culex and Aedes mosquitoes. While Aedes aegypti-dengue virus (DENV) is the most studied model, less is known about the genes involved in infection-responses in other mosquito-arboviruses pairing. Th...