Introduction Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) viruses, such as H5N1, continue to
pose a serious threat to animal agriculture, wildlife and to public health. Controlling and …

Septin proteins are a subfamily of closely related GTP-binding proteins conserved in all
species except for higher plants and perform essential biological processes. Septins self …

Background There has been a great interest in developing strategies for enhancing antigen
delivery to the mucosal immune system as well as identifying mucosal active …

Despite increases in vaccination coverage, reductions in influenza-related mortality have not
been observed. Better vaccines are therefore required and influenza challenge studies can …

To investigate the roles and explore the altered expression of microRNAs (miRNAs) and
mRNAs in chicken embryos in response to Newcastle disease virus (NDV) infection, deep …

Two highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) outbreaks have affected commercial egg
production flocks in the American continent in recent years; a H7N3 outbreak in Mexico in …

Human septins comprise a family of 13 genes that encode conserved GTP-binding proteins.
They form nonpolar complexes, which assemble into higher-order structures, such as …

Among different inbred chickens' lines, we previously showed that lines P and N of Institute
for Animal Health, Compton, UK are the most susceptible and the least affected lines …

Infectious bursal disease is a highly contagious disease in the poultry industry and causes
immunosuppression in chickens. Genome-wide regulations of immune response genes of …

Outbreaks of duck Tembusu virus (DTMUV) have caused substantial economic losses in the
major duck‐producing regions of China since 2010. To improve our understanding of the …