Wolbachia-mediated resistance to Zika virus infection in Aedes aegypti is dominated by diverse transcriptional regulation and weak evolutionary pressures.

• Main Authors: Emma C Boehm (Author), Anna S Jaeger (Author), Hunter J Ries (Author), David Castañeda (Author), Andrea M Weiler (Author), Corina C Valencia (Author), James Weger-Lucarelli (Author), Gregory D Ebel (Author), Shelby L O'Connor (Author), Thomas C Friedrich (Author), Mostafa Zamanian (Author), Matthew T Aliota (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2023-10-01T00:00:00Z.
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A promising candidate for arbovirus control and prevention relies on replacing arbovirus-susceptible Aedes aegypti populations with mosquitoes that have been colonized by the intracellular bacterium Wolbachia and thus have a reduced capacity to transmit arboviruses. This reduced capacity to transmit...