Sequencing , annotation and characterization of the 1 influenza ferret infectome

Alberto J. León, David Banner, Luoling Xu, Longsi Ran, Zhiyu Peng, Kang Yi, Chao Chen, Fengping 3 Xu, Jinrong Huang , Zhen Zhao, Zhen Lin, Stephen H.S. Huang, Yuan Fang, Alyson A. Kelvin, Ted 4 M. Ross, Amber Farooqui, David J. Kelvin 5 Division of Immunology, International Institute of Infection and Immunity, Shantou University Medical 6 College, Shantou, Guangdong, China 7 Division of Experimental Therapeutics, Toronto General Research Institute, University Health Network, 8 Toronto, Ontario, Canada 9 Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Immunopathology, Shantou, 10 Guangdong, China 11 Research & Cooperation Division, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China 12 Department of Immunology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 13 Immune Diagnostics & Research (IDR), Toronto, Ontario, Canada 14 Center for Vaccine Research and Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of 15 Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 16 Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, Università degli Studi di Sassari, Sassari, Sardinia, Italy 17 Address correspondence to: David J. Kelvin, [email protected] 18