Publications

monitoring of bluetongue virus in zoo animals in spain, 2007-2019.	bluetongue (bt) is an emerging and re-emerging communicable vector-borne disease of animal health concern. a serosurvey was performed to assess exposure to bt virus (btv) in zoo animals in spain and to determine the dynamics of seropositivity in longitudinally sampled individuals during the study period. serum samples were collected from 241 zoo animals belonging to 71 different species in five urban zoos (a-e) in spain between 2007 and 2019. twenty-four of these animals were longitudinally surv ...	2021	33963677
insertion of an endogenous jaagsiekte sheep retrovirus element into the bco2 - gene abolishes its function and leads to yellow discoloration of adipose tissue in norwegian spælsau (ovis aries).	the accumulation of carotenoids in adipose tissue leading to yellow fat is, in sheep, a heritable recessive trait that can be attributed to a nonsense mutation in the beta-carotene oxygenase 2 (bco2) gene. however, not all sheep breeds suffering from yellow fat have this nonsense mutation, meaning that other functional mechanisms must exist. we investigated one such breed, the norwegian spælsau.	2021	34193038
zinc finger antiviral protein (zap) inhibits small ruminant morbillivirus replication in vitro.	small ruminant morbillivirus (srmv) is a highly contagious and economically important viral disease of small domestic and wild ruminants. difficulty with its stable proliferation in ovis aries-derived cells has led to a relative lag in the study of its natural immunity and pathogenesis. here we report the antiviral properties of zap against srmv, a single-stranded negative-stranded rna virus of the genus morbillivirus. zap expression was significantly induced in sheep endometrial epithelial cell ...	2021	34311269