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This study was supported by RFBR (research project No.17-04-01919), the National Key Research and Development Project of China (2016YFE0205800), the National Science and Technology Major Project (2016ZX10004222), intramural special grants for influenza virus research from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (KJZD-EW-L15). YB is supported by the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) (2017122). WS was supported by the Taishan Scholars program of Shandong Province (ts201511056). The authors thank Thijs Kuiken and Peter van Run from the Department of Viroscience, Erasmus MC for assistance in the IHC analysis, and Vladimir Petrov from the Federal Research Center of Fundamental and Translational Medicine for proofreading the manuscript.
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Gulyaeva, M., Sobolev, I., Sharshov, K. et al. Characterization of Avian-like Influenza A (H4N6) Virus Isolated from Caspian Seal in 2012. Virol. Sin. 33, 449–452 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12250-018-0053-y
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