| Budget Amount *help |
¥25,350,000 (Direct Cost: ¥19,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥5,850,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥7,410,000 (Direct Cost: ¥5,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,710,000)
Fiscal Year 2009: ¥7,410,000 (Direct Cost: ¥5,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,710,000)
Fiscal Year 2008: ¥10,530,000 (Direct Cost: ¥8,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥2,430,000)
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| Research Abstract |
Blood-sucking arthropods, including mosquitoes transmit numerous virus disease during blood feeding. Using a virus infection model in Drosophila and Aedes mosquito, we uncovered genetically encoded resistance of vector mosquito to virus infection as measured by the extent to which survival rate decreased via increasing virus burden. These results suggest that anti-virus responses of vector mosquito are not restricted to its survival but rather can be applied to capacity to employ virus mutualism during the disease transmission.
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