Jingmenviruses: Ubiquitous, understudied, segmented flavi-like viruses

AMG Colmant, RN Charrel, B Coutard - Frontiers in microbiology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Jingmenviruses are a group of viruses identified recently, in 2014, and currently classified by
the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses as unclassified Flaviviridae. These …

Jingmen tick virus: an emerging arbovirus with a global threat

Z Wu, M Zhang, Y Zhang, K Lu, W Zhu, S Feng, J Qi… - Msphere, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Jingmen tick virus (JMTV), belonging to the Flaviviridae family, is a novel segmented RNA
virus identified in 2014 in the Jingmen region of Hubei Province, China. Up to now, JMTV …

Spatial scale influences the distribution of viral diversity in the eukaryotic virome of the mosquito Culex pipiens

P Gil, A Exbrayat, E Loire, I Rakotoarivony… - Virus …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Our knowledge of the diversity of eukaryotic viruses has recently undergone a massive
expansion. This diversity could influence host physiology through yet unknown phenomena …

Detection of Jingmenviruses in Japan with evidence of vertical transmission in ticks

D Kobayashi, R Kuwata, T Kimura, H Shimoda, R Fujita… - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
Jingmen tick virus (JMTV) and the related jingmenvirus-termed Alongshan virus are
recognized as globally emerging human pathogenic tick-borne viruses. These viruses have …

Leveraging insect-specific viruses to elucidate mosquito population structure and dynamics

BD Hollingsworth, ND Grubaugh, BP Lazzaro… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Several aspects of mosquito ecology that are important for vectored disease transmission
and control have been difficult to measure at epidemiologically important scales in the field …

Highly divergent and diverse viral community infecting sylvatic mosquitoes from Northeast Brazil

AF da Silva, LC Machado, LMI da Silva… - Journal of …, 2024 - journals.asm.org
Mosquitoes can transmit several pathogenic viruses to humans, but their natural viral
community is also composed of a myriad of other viruses such as insect-specific viruses …

Variable effects of transient Wolbachia infections on alphaviruses in Aedes aegypti

BL Dodson, S Pujhari, M Brustolin… - PLOS Neglected …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Wolbachia pipientis (= Wolbachia) has promise as a tool to suppress virus transmission by
Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. However, Wolbachia can have variable effects on mosquito …

Non-food bioactive product (+)-nootkatone: Chemistry and biological activities

J Fan, Z Liu, S Xu, X Yan, W Cheng, R Yang… - Industrial Crops and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Nootkatone, first isolated from the heartwood of Alaska yellow cedar (Chamaecyparis
nootkatensis), is a non-food natural sesquiterpene ketone. Due to its strong grapefruit aroma …

Reporter flaviviruses as tools to demonstrate homologous and heterologous superinfection exclusion

FJ Torres, R Parry, LE Hugo, A Slonchak, ND Newton… - Viruses, 2022 - mdpi.com
Binjari virus (BinJV) is a lineage II or dual-host affiliated insect-specific flavivirus previously
demonstrated as replication-deficient in vertebrate cells. Previous studies have shown that …

A novel tamanavirus (Flaviviridae) of the European common frog (Rana temporaria) from the UK

RH Parry, A Slonchak, LJ Campbell… - Journal of General …, 2023 - microbiologyresearch.org
Flavivirids are small, enveloped, positive-sense RNA viruses from the family Flaviviridae
with genomes of~ 9–13 kb. Metatranscriptomic analyses of metazoan organisms have …