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Review
. 2018 Nov 27;9(4):173.
doi: 10.3390/insects9040173.

The Ecological Significance and Implications of Transovarial Transmission among the Vector-Borne Bunyaviruses: A Review

Nicholas A Bergren  1 , Rebekah C Kading  2
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Review

The Ecological Significance and Implications of Transovarial Transmission among the Vector-Borne Bunyaviruses: A Review

Nicholas A Bergren et al. Insects. .

Abstract

Transovarial transmission (TOT) is a widespread and efficient process through which pathogens can be passed between generations of arthropod vectors. Many species within the order Bunyavirales utilize TOT as a means of persisting within the environment when classical horizontal transmission is not possible due to ecological constraints. The purpose of this review is to summarize previous findings regarding the ecological significance of TOT among viruses in the order Bunyavirales and identify the gaps in knowledge regarding this important mechanism of arboviral maintenance.

Keywords: Bunyavirales; arbovirus; bunyavirus; transovarial transmission; vertical transmission.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Bayesian phylogenetic trees based on nucleotide sequence of the RDRP for (A) orthobunyaviruses and (B) phleboviruses. In addition to viruses discussed in the paper available on GenBank, Orthobunyavirus, and Phlebovirus sequences available via RefSeq were included in the alignment. Nucleotide sequences were aligned by translating to amino acid, aligning using MUSCLE [116], and back translating to nucleotide. Columns in the alignment were removed where gaps contributed to 80% of the column composition using Trimal [117]. Substitution models were chosen with jModelTest2 (GTR Γ + I for both phylogenies) [118]. Trees were generated in Mr. Bayes [119] with 5,000,000 steps, sampling every 1000 and discarding the first 10% as burn-in. Convergence was assessed by examining the stationary ln-likelihood and effective sample size (ESS, >200) parameters in Tracer v1.7.1 (BEAST, Auckland, New Zeland). Posterior probabilities reported on the trees are >0.9.
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