New #review out 🚨 for mosquito enthusiasts 🦟 ! Have you ever questioned the approach you routinely use to investigate #mosquito-virus #interactions? ⬇️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Elodie Couderc
@elodiecouderc.bsky.social
Postdoc with Enzo Poirier (@enzopoirier.bsky.social) at Institut Curie | Exploring the ancestral innate immunity 🧬🦠 in humans #comparativeimmunology | Former PhD student @merklinglab.bsky.social at Institut Pasteur 🦟
🚀 Excited to share (with a little delay) my first first-author publication on #Vago genes in #mosquitoes! 🦟 🦠 Have a look to see how we questioned a mosquito immunity dogma and challenged the existing understanding of Vago-like genes as antiviral factors ⬇️ bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Aedes aegypti VLG-1 challenges the assumed antiviral nature of Vago genes - BMC Biology
Background Arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses) such as dengue virus (DENV) and Zika virus (ZIKV) pose a significant threat to global health. Novel approaches to control the spread of arboviruses foc...
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