Publications

distribution and phylogenetic comparisons of a novel mosquito flavivirus sequence present in culex tarsalis mosquitoes from western canada with viruses isolated in california and colorado.	in a previous study, a new flavivirus genome sequence was identified in culex tarsalis mosquitoes obtained in alberta, canada and was shown to be genetically related to but distinct from members of the insect-specific flaviviruses. nonstructural protein 5-encoding sequences amplified from cx. tarsalis pools from western canada have shown a high similarity to genome sequences of novel flaviviruses isolated from mosquitoes in california and colorado. despite wide distribution of this virus, design ...	2011	21734143
isolation of a novel insect-specific flavivirus from culiseta melanura in the northeastern united states.	the genus flavivirus includes a number of newly recognized viruses that infect and replicate only within mosquitoes. to determine whether insect-specific flaviviruses (isfs) may infect culiseta (cs.) melanura mosquitoes, we screened pools of field-collected mosquitoes for virus infection by rt-pcr targeting conserved regions of the ns5 gene. ns5 nucleotide sequences amplified from cs. melanura pools were genetically similar to other isfs and most closely matched calbertado virus from culex tarsa ...	2016	26807512