supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2021YFC2301700);the Natural Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province,China(YQ2022C040)。
Minks are highly susceptible to SARS-CoV-2,and have transmitted SARS-CoV-2 to humans.Oral immunization is one of the most promising strategies to prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection and transmission in minks.Here,we generate...
supported by grants from the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDB29020203);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32170068);the Research Project of Jinan Microecological Biomedicine Shandong Laboratory(JNL-2022013B).
Mammalian endogenous retroviruses(ERVs)are ancient retroviruses that have been integrated into genomes.ERVs were believed to be inactive until the discovery of ERV transcription in the mouse genome.However,the transcr...
Continuously emergence of human infection with avian influenza A virus poses persistent threat to public health,as illustrated in zoonotic H5N1/6 and H7N9 infections.The recent surge of infection to farmed mink by mul...
This research was funded by the authors with help from Fundacion para la Investigacion en Etologıa y Biodiversidad(FIEB),who funded a small portion of the hormonal analyzes.
Human activities involving noise emission can affect wild animals.European mink was exposed to road noise and human voice playbacks to analyze how sound intensity level and duration of both noises altered the time tha...
financially supported by the Science and Technology Development Program of Jilin Province (20160204004NY, 20200404152YY, 20200403047SF);the Science and Technology Innovation Center Construction Program of Jilin Province (20190902018TC);the Graduate Innovation Program of Beihua University [Beihua Yanchuanghezi 2019 (016)]
In this study,we established a DNA extraction method of meats and a PCR method for the detection of mink-derived compo-nents in common edible meats.The DNA of meats was extracted by a developed mink-derived component ...
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.32070543);the National Key Research and Development Project of China(Grant No.2020YFA0707803 and 2021YFC0863300);the CAMS Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences(CIFMS)grant(2021-1-I2M-035,2021-1-I2M-034).
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2(SARS-CoV-2)is transmitted on mink farms between minks and humans in many countries.However,the systemic pathological features of SARS-CoV-2-infected minks are mostly unk...
supported in part by the Major Special Projects for Infectious Disease Research of China(Grant 2018ZX10101002-005);the Research Units of Adaptive Evolution and Control of Emerging Viruses,Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences(Grant 2018RU009);the National Key Research and Development Program of China(Grant 2020YFC0840800);the Young Scientists Research Fund of Academician Yunde Hou.
Mink has been identified as an animal with susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 and also as the only animal with evidence to transmit the virus back to humans.Thus,the surveillance of viruses among high-density farmed minks h...
This work was supported by the intramural special grant for SARSCoV-2 research from the Chinese Academy of Sciences,the Strategic Priority Research Programme of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(grant number XDB29010102);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)(grant numbers 32041010 and 31900155);Y.B.is supported by the NSFC Outstanding Young Scholars(grant number 31822055);the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of CAS(grant number 2017122).
SARS-CoV-2 has recently been found to have spread from humans to minks and then to have transmitted back to humans.However,it is unknown to what extent the human-to-human transmission caused by the variant has reached...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China(grant number 82073621);the Bill&Melinda Gates Foundation[Investment ID INV-006379].
Dear Editor,The outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 in minks has been observed recently,raising serious concerns over cross-species transmission and the emergence of variants capable of rendering antibody therapy and vaccines less...