Chikungunya virus dissemination from the midgut of Aedes aegypti is associated with temporal basal lamina degradation during bloodmeal digestion

• Shengzhang Dong,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

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• Velmurugan Balaraman,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

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• Asher M. Kantor,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

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• Jingyi Lin,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

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• DeAna G. Grant,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

  Affiliation Electron Microscopy Core Facility, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

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• Nicole L. Held,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

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• Alexander W. E. Franz

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: franza@missouri.edu

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3243-8408

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