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ReviewCurrent opinion in virology2016

Dynamics of West Nile virus evolution in mosquito vectors.

Nathan D Grubaugh, Gregory D Ebel

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Review in Current opinion in virology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
29citing papers in PubMed
5.7field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed, 49 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
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  3. West Nile virus unmasked: from gene variability to future challenges.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2025
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  4. The West Nile virus genome harbors essential riboregulatory elements with conserved and host-specific functional roles.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  6. African ZIKV lineage fails to sustain infectivity in an in vitro mimetic urban cycle.Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology] · 2023
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  11. West Nile Virus in Common Wild Avian Species in Israel.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
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  12. West Nile virus: another emerging arboviral risk for travelers?Current infectious disease reports · 2022
    Review
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Nathan D GrubaughDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA. Electronic address: nathan.grubaugh@yahoo.com.
Gregory D EbelDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA. Electronic address: gregory.ebel@colostate.edu.
Colorado State University · US

Funding

Quasispecies dynamics in arbovirus persistence emergence and fitnessR01AI067380 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO · PI Gregory David Ebel · 2007 to 2026
$7.7M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI067380
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

West Nile virus remains the most common cause of arboviral encephalitis in North America. Since it was introduced, it has undergone adaptive genetic change as it spread throughout the continent. The WNV transmission cycle is relatively tractable in the laboratory. Thus the virus serves as a convenient model system for studying the population biology of mosquito-borne flaviviruses as they undergo transmission to and from mosquitoes and vertebrates. This review summarizes the current knowledge regarding the population dynamics of this virus within mosquito vectors.

Indexed as

Adaptation, BiologicalPopulation DynamicsAnimalsMosquito VectorsNorth AmericaWest Nile virus

Identifiers

PMID27788400
PMCPMC5384794
OpenAlexW2534253195

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Registered trials

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