pipiens When considering the dose-dependent effects of individual strains on mosquito infection, a clear trend emerged in the proportion of infected mosquitoes resulting from peroral infection using NY10 strains relative to the ancestral WN02.
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Adaptive evolution of West Nile virus facilitated increased transmissibility and prevalence in New York State.
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These highly significant differences demonstrate a phenotypic advantage that NY10 strains have over WN02 in terms of competence in Cx. pipiens mosquitoes.