A team of scientists from China Agricultural University, BGI, University of Edinburgh and others have completed the genome sequence of the duck (Anas platyrhynchos). The results spread light on the immune response towards avian influenza viruses and host-avian virus interactions.
BGI News, June 10, 2013, Nature Genetics (2013), doi:10.1038/ng.2657
Sino-British team solves duck genome