EcologybioRxiv
Temperature drives Zika virus transmission: evidence from empirical and mathematical models
B. Tesla, L. R. Demakovsky, E. A. Mordecai…·C. C. Murdock
The paper estimates the thermal performance of Zika virus in Aedes aegypti and updates a temperature-dependent model to show that Zika transmission is optimized at 29°C with a thermal range of 22.7–34.7°C.
DOI 10.1098/rspb.2018.0795