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Transovarial transmission of yellow fever virus in Stegomyia mosquitoes. 1980

B J Beaty, and R B Tesh, and T H Aitken

Transovarial transmission of two strains of yellow fever virus was demonstrated in three colonized geographical strains of Aedes aegypti following infection by intrathoracic inoculation. Infected progeny were detected in F1 offspring from only the first three ovarian cycles (OVC). The overall minimum filial infection rate for the first three OVC was 1:596; rates were loser in the second and third OVC. Virus survived in eggs for longer than 4 months and was recovered from progeny of three immersions of first OVC eggs. Infected progeny averaged a longer time to pupation than noninfected siblings. Transovarial transmission of virus was also demonstrated in first OVC progeny of Aedes mascarensis.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D010058	Oviposition	The process of laying or shedding fully developed eggs (OVA) from the female body. The term is usually used for certain INSECTS or FISHES with an organ called ovipositor where eggs are stored or deposited before expulsion from the body.	Larviposition,Larvipositions,Ovipositions
D010063	Ovum	A mature haploid female germ cell extruded from the OVARY at OVULATION.	Egg,Egg, Unfertilized,Ova,Eggs, Unfertilized,Unfertilized Egg,Unfertilized Eggs
D005260	Female		Females
D000330	Aedes	A genus of mosquitoes (CULICIDAE) frequently found in tropical and subtropical regions. YELLOW FEVER and DENGUE are two of the diseases that can be transmitted by species of this genus.	Aede
D000818	Animals	Unicellular or multicellular, heterotrophic organisms, that have sensation and the power of voluntary movement. Under the older five kingdom paradigm, Animalia was one of the kingdoms. Under the modern three domain model, Animalia represents one of the many groups in the domain EUKARYOTA.	Animal,Metazoa,Animalia
D000882	Haplorhini	A suborder of PRIMATES consisting of six families: CEBIDAE (some New World monkeys), ATELIDAE (some New World monkeys), CERCOPITHECIDAE (Old World monkeys), HYLOBATIDAE (gibbons and siamangs), CALLITRICHINAE (marmosets and tamarins), and HOMINIDAE (humans and great apes).	Anthropoidea,Monkeys,Anthropoids,Monkey
D013045	Species Specificity	The restriction of a characteristic behavior, anatomical structure or physical system, such as immune response; metabolic response, or gene or gene variant to the members of one species. It refers to that property which differentiates one species from another but it is also used for phylogenetic levels higher or lower than the species.	Species Specificities,Specificities, Species,Specificity, Species
D015005	Yellow fever virus	The type species of the FLAVIVIRUS genus. Principal vector transmission to humans is by AEDES spp. mosquitoes.