Virulence and transmission vary between Usutu virus lineages in Culex pipiens

• Maxime Prat,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution de Montpellier, Université de Montpellier-CNRS-IRD, Montpellier, France, UMR ASTRE, Univ Montpellier, INRAE-CIRAD, Montpellier, France

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• Mélanie Jeanneau,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation UMR ASTRE, Univ Montpellier, INRAE-CIRAD, Montpellier, France

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• Ignace Rakotoarivony,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation UMR ASTRE, Univ Montpellier, INRAE-CIRAD, Montpellier, France

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• Maxime Duhayon,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation UMR ASTRE, Univ Montpellier, INRAE-CIRAD, Montpellier, France

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• Yannick Simonin,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Pathogenesis and Control of Chronic Infections, Université de Montpellier-INSERM-EFS, Montpellier, France

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• Giovanni Savini,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation OIE Reference Centre for West Nile Disease, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale “G. Caporale”, Teramo, Italy

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• Pierrick Labbé,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution de Montpellier, Université de Montpellier-CNRS-IRD, Montpellier, France

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• Haoues Alout

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: haoues.alout@inrae.fr; haoues.alout@cirad.fr

  Affiliation UMR ASTRE, Univ Montpellier, INRAE-CIRAD, Montpellier, France

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7917-2697

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