Jiaxiang Hu, Linfei Song, Mengfei Ning, Xinyu Niu, Mengying Han, Chuze Gao, Xingwei Feng, Han Cai, Te Li, Fangtao Li, Huifang Li, Daoqing Gong, Weitao Song, Long Liu, Juan Pu, Jinhua Liu, Jacqueline Smith, Honglei Sun, Yinhua Huang
BACKGROUND: The duck (Anas platyrhynchos) is one of the principal natural hosts of influenza A virus (IAV), harbors almost all subtypes of IAVs and resists to many IAVs which cause extreme virulence in chicken and human. However, the response of duck's adaptive immune system to IAV infection is poorly characterized due to lack of a detailed gene map of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC). RESULTS: We herein reported a chromosome-scale Beijing duck assembly by integrating Nanopore, Bionano, and Hi-C data...
February 5, 2024: BMC Biology