Reptiles are an important part of vertebrates and are the primitive terrestrial vertebrates. However, lots of reptile species are endangered or susceptible to extinction. It is no doubt that contaminants are one of the important reasons for the decline of the lizard population. In this study, the...

A 2-year surveillance study of influenza A viruses in migratory birds was conducted to understand the subsequent risk during the migratory seasons in Dandong Yalu River Estuary Coastal Wetland National Nature Reserve, Liaoning Province, China, a major stopover site on the East Asian-Australasian...

Budgerigar fledgling disease virus (BFDV) is the causative polyomavirus of budgerigar fledgling disease, an important avian immunosuppressive disease in budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus). In the current study, we explored the etiological role and molecular characteristics of BFDV. We identified ...

Objective: To analyze the composition and diversity of gastrointestinal microbiota of a clinically dead Arabian baboon(Papio hamadryas) with high-throughput sequencing, and analyze the cause of its death by combining its clinical symptoms and test results, so as to provide basic data for wildlife...

Light is regarded as an important environmental factor which is involved in the regulation of the various physiological processes of fish. Thereinto, the light spectra and photoperiods have been shown the noticeable influences on the growth performance of fish species. In the present study, two...

The positive reinforcement training for captive animals is a general trend for zoos at home and abroad. In recent years, zoos around China have also developed trainings in succession, and had some achievements. Nanning Zoo began to carry out positive reinforcement training for a Panthera tigris...

H10 subtype avian influenza viruses (AIVs) have been isolated from wild and domestic avian species worldwide and have occasionally crossed the species barrier to mammalian hosts. Fatal human cases of H10N8 infections and the recent detection of human H10N3 infections have drawn widespread public...

Pesticides are proposed as one of the many causes for the global decline in reptile population. To understand the potential impact of alpha-cypermethrin (ACP) in reptiles, in the current study, we used a tri-trophic food web (plants-herbivores-natural enemies of predators) to examine the...

Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have pluripotent differentiation ability and play an important role in human clinical cell therapy. While, the research on MSCs in endangered wild animals is extremely rare. In our previous studies, the bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (bmMSCs) and umbilical cord...