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Comparative fitness of reemerging St. Louis encephalitis virus in vertebrate and mosquito cells, Culex tarsalis and Culex quinquefasciatus mosquitoes, and mice

This study compares the fitness of contemporary and historical St. Louis encephalitis virus strains in vertebrate and mosquito cells, finding some contemporary strains exhibit equal or greater fitness.

Rhesus macaques model human Mayaro virus disease and transmit to Aedes aegypti mosquitoes

This study uses rhesus macaques to model MAYV infection and transmission to Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, finding short viremia, low transmission rates, and limited mosquito infectivity.

Mosquito odorant receptor sensitive to natural spatial repellents and inhibitory compounds

The paper identifies an odorant receptor in mosquitoes that responds to both agonists and antagonists, showing intrareceptor inhibition and testing its repellent activity against DEET.

A highly expressed odorant receptor from the yellow fever mosquito, AaegOR11, responds to (+)- and (-)-fenchone and a phenolic repellent

The paper identifies AaegOR11, an odorant receptor in Aedes aegypti, that responds to fenchone and phenolic compounds, suggesting its role in detecting repellents.