Temperate conditions limit zika virus genome replication

B Tesla, JS Powers, Y Barnes, S Lakhani… - Journal of …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Zika virus is a mosquito-borne flavivirus known to cause severe birth defects and
neuroimmunological disorders. We have previously demonstrated that mosquito …

Rapid evolution of enhanced Zika virus virulence during direct vertebrate transmission chains

KK Riemersma, AS Jaeger, CM Crooks… - Journal of …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Zika virus (ZIKV) has the unusual capacity to circumvent natural alternating mosquito-human
transmission and be directly transmitted human to human via sexual and vertical routes. The …

Patchy DNA forms of the Zika virus RNA genome are generated following infection in mosquito cell cultures and in mosquitoes

DK Nag, LD Kramer - Journal of general virology, 2017 - microbiologyresearch.org
Zika virus (ZIKV) is a mosquito-borne flavivirus and has historically been reported to cause
mild symptomatic diseases during human infections. More recently, the explosion of …

Warming temperatures could expose more than 1.3 billion new people to Zika virus risk by 2050

SJ Ryan, CJ Carlson, B Tesla, MH Bonds… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In the aftermath of the 2015 pandemic of Zika virus (ZIKV), concerns over links between
climate change and emerging arboviruses have become more pressing. Given the potential …

Determination of the cell permissiveness spectrum, mode of RNA replication, and RNA-protein interaction of Zika virus

W Hou, N Armstrong, LA Obwolo, M Thomas… - BMC infectious …, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Background Two lineages of Zika virus (ZIKV) have been classified according to the
phylogenetic analysis: African and Asian lineages. It is unclear whether differences exist …

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

J Liu, Y Liu, C Shan, BTD Nunes, R Yun… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Zika virus (ZIKV) emerged from obscurity in 2013 to spread from Asia to the South Pacific
and the Americas, where millions of people were infected, accompanied by severe disease …

Effects of changes in temperature on Zika dynamics and control

CN Ngonghala, SJ Ryan, B Tesla… - Journal of the …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
When a rare pathogen emerges to cause a pandemic, it is critical to understand its dynamics
and the impact of mitigation measures. We use experimental data to parametrize a …

[HTML][HTML] Genomic insights into Zika virus emergence and spread

ND Grubaugh, NR Faria, KG Andersen, OG Pybus - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
The emergence and spread of Zika virus in the Americas continues to challenge our disease
surveillance systems. Virus genome sequencing during the epidemic uncovered the …

Impact of extrinsic incubation temperature on natural selection during Zika virus infection of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus

RA Murrieta, SM Garcia-Luna, DJ Murrieta… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses) require replication across a wide range of
temperatures to perpetuate. While vertebrate hosts tend to maintain temperatures of …

Zika Virus Exhibits Lineage-Specific Phenotypes in Cell Culture, in Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes, and in an Embryo Model

KA Willard, L Demakovsky, B Tesla, FT Goodfellow… - Viruses, 2017 - mdpi.com
Zika virus (ZIKV) has quietly circulated in Africa and Southeast Asia for the past 65 years.
However, the recent ZIKV epidemic in the Americas propelled this mosquito-borne virus to …