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. 2021 May 20;6:76. doi: 10.1038/s41541-021-00340-5

Fig. 4. Hypothetical diagram of changes in dengue genome diversity.

Fig. 4

As dengue circulates in its natural ecological niche, the virus undergoes selection pressures imposed by the alternating human host and mosquito vector. When the virus is transferred to a new ecological niche in vitro and continually passaged, the past selective pressures of host and vector are replaced with those of the new niche. Images are created using Biorender.