Immunity to betanodavirus infections of marine fish

YM Chen, TY Wang, TY Chen - Developmental & Comparative Immunology, 2014 - Elsevier
Betanodaviruses cause viral nervous necrosis in numerous fish species, but some species
are resistant to infection by these viruses. It is essential to fully characterize the immune …

Functional analysis of an orange-spotted grouper (Epinephelus coioides) interferon gene and characterisation of its expression in response to nodavirus infection

YM Chen, CE Kuo, GR Chen, YT Kao, J Zou… - Developmental & …, 2014 - Elsevier
We cloned and sequenced 2C I-IFN, a two-cysteine containing type I interferon (I-IFN) gene,
in orange-spotted grouper (Epinephelus coioides). The cDNA has 769 base pairs, the …