Issue · 2017
Vol.4, Iss. 1
3 articles · pp. 1-20 · All issues →
ReviewPlant-Virus Interactions: Disease Resistance in Focus
Waqar Islam, Madiha Zaynab, Muhammad Qasim, Zujian Wu
Abstract | Crops are threatened by plant viruses worldwide as they hack the host machinery for their reproduction. Plants have undergone continuous evolution and have equipped themselves with counter defense and tolerant strategies against viral infections. In…
13 May 2017
EditorialHosts and Viruses: A New Avenue
As you may have noticed, this issue of the journal has a new name. Starting from the first issue of 2017, Hosts and Viruses is the revised name of the British Journal of Virology. The journal was initiated in 2013 and started publishing in 2014 with six issues…
13 May 2017- Mini-Review
Infectious Bursal Disease Virus-Induced Chicken Innate Immune Genes Expression
Gabriela Mansano do Nascimento, Helena Lage Ferreira, Clarice Weis Arns
Infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV) belongs to the genus Avibirnavirus, a dsRNA virus that causes an acute, highly contagious and immunosuppressive disease in young chickens. The first line of defence against the virus is innate immunity whose activation is…
9 Apr 2017