Unlike animals, plants do not possess an adaptive immune system with antibodies or T cells to fight viral infections. Instead ...

A large study to gauge how susceptible US dairy and beef cattle are to influenza A viruses found that they are susceptible to ...

A new study has uncovered a molecular mechanism by which rice cells perceive viral infections and initiate antiviral response ...

Only influenza A viruses infect nonhuman hosts, and a reassortment of genes can occur between those subtypes that typically infect animals and those that infect humans, resulting in antigenic ...

That scenario is caused by “reassortment,” the exchange of genetic material when hosts are infected with multiple versions of a virus. The U.S. Agriculture Department’s Animal and Plant ...

A new study uncovers how Oropouche virus is breaking out of the Amazon ... the OROV genome is likely to undergo reassortment and recombination events. The study identified 21 reassortment events ...