The H5N8 avian influenza viruses have been widely circulating in wild birds and are responsible for the loss of over 33 million domestic poultry in Europe, Russia, Middle East, and Asia since January 2020. To monitor the invasion and spread of the H5N8 virus in China, we performed active surveillance by analyzing 317 wild bird samples and swab samples collected from 41,172 poultry all over the country. We isolated 22 H5N8 viru...

Fish can maintain a stable intracellular concentration of ions in environments of variable salinities through osmoregulation. In this study, we focused on obscure puffer Takifugu obscurus ( T. obscurus ), an anadromous fish with high commercial value and rapid depression of wide populations, to investigate changes at molecular and physiological levels underlying salinity tolerance through multifaceted analyses integrating tran...