O'nyong nyong virus molecular determinants of unique vector specificity reside in non-structural protein 3.

• Main Authors: Kali D Saxton-Shaw (Author), Jeremy P Ledermann (Author), Erin M Borland (Author), Janae L Stovall (Author), Eric C Mossel (Author), Amber J Singh (Author), Jeffrey Wilusz (Author), Ann M Powers (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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O'nyong nyong virus (ONNV) and Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) are two closely related alphaviruses with very different infection patterns in the mosquito, Anopheles gambiae. ONNV is the only alphavirus transmitted by anopheline mosquitoes, but specific molecular determinants of infection of this uni...