Two hidden taxa in the Japanese encephalitis vector mosquito, Culex tritaeniorhynchus, and the potential for long-distance migration from overseas to Japan.

• Main Authors: Satoru Arai (Author), Ryusei Kuwata (Author), Yukiko Higa (Author), Yoshihide Maekawa (Author), Yoshio Tsuda (Author), Sudipta Roychoudhury (Author), Arlene Garcia Bertuso (Author), Tran Vu Phong (Author), Nguyen Thi Yen (Author), Tomoki Etoh (Author), Akira Otuka (Author), Masaya Matsumura (Author), Takeshi Nabeshima (Author), Keiko Tanaka Taya (Author), Nobuhiko Okabe (Author), Mutsuo Kobayashi (Author), Kyoko Sawabe (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2022-06-01T00:00:00Z.
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The Culex vishnui subgroups, particularly Culex tritaeniorhynchus, are considered the primary vectors of the Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) in Asia. Recent molecular phylogenetic analyses of JEV isolates from Asian countries have shown that JEVs with diverse genetic variants are present in Asia....