Kevin M. Myles

Comparison of the Transmission Potential of Two Genetically Distinct Sindbis Viruses After Oral Infection of Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) (2004)

Kevin M. Myles, Dennis J. Pierro, Ken E. Olson

Within mosquitoes, arboviruses encounter barriers to infection and dissemination that are critical determinants of vector competence. The molecular mechanisms responsible for these barriers have yet...

Deletions in the Putative Cell Receptor-Binding Domain of Sindbis Virus Strain MRE16 E2 Glycoprotein Reduce Midgut Infectivity in Aedes aegypti

Myles, Kevin M., Pierro, Dennis J., Olson, Ken E.

The Sindbis virus (Alphavirus; Togaviridae) strain MRE16 efficiently infects Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that ingest a blood meal containing 8 to 9 log10 PFU of virus/ml. However, a small-plaque variant...

Effects of an Opal Termination Codon Preceding the nsP4 Gene Sequence in the O'Nyong-Nyong Virus Genome on Anopheles gambiae Infectivity

Myles, Kevin M., Kelly, Cindy L. H., Ledermann, Jeremy P., Powers, Ann M.

The genomic RNA of an alphavirus encodes four different nonstructural proteins, nsP1, nsP2, nsP3, and nsP4. The polyprotein P123 is produced when translation terminates at an opal termination codon...

Deletions in the Putative Cell Receptor-Binding Domain of Sindbis Virus Strain MRE16 E2 Glycoprotein Reduce Midgut Infectivity in Aedes aegypti

Myles, Kevin M., Pierro, Dennis J., Olson, Ken E.

The Sindbis virus (Alphavirus; Togaviridae) strain MRE16 efficiently infects Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that ingest a blood meal containing 8 to 9 log10 PFU of virus/ml. However, a small-plaque variant...

Effects of an Opal Termination Codon Preceding the nsP4 Gene Sequence in the O'Nyong-Nyong Virus Genome on Anopheles gambiae Infectivity

Myles, Kevin M., Kelly, Cindy L. H., Ledermann, Jeremy P., Powers, Ann M.

The genomic RNA of an alphavirus encodes four different nonstructural proteins, nsP1, nsP2, nsP3, and nsP4. The polyprotein P123 is produced when translation terminates at an opal termination codon...

Alphavirus-derived small RNAs modulate pathogenesis in disease vector mosquitoes

Myles, Kevin M., Wiley, Michael R., Morazzani, Elaine M., Adelman, Zach N.

Mosquito-borne viruses cause significant levels of morbidity and mortality in humans and domesticated animals. Maintenance of mosquito-borne viruses in nature requires a biological transmission cycle...

Accurate Strand-Specific Quantification of Viral RNA

Plaskon, Nicole E., Adelman, Zach N., Myles, Kevin M.

The presence of full-length complements of viral genomic RNA is a hallmark of RNA virus replication within an infected cell. As such, methods for detecting and measuring specific strands of viral RNA...