This review concludes the recent reported data about AIV genome, the encoded proteins and their functions, AIV vaccine, and relation between avian influenza virus and human influenza and so on.;

• 对AIV的基因组、所编码的蛋白质及其功能、AIV毒力变异的分子基础、禽流感疫苗以及AIV与人流感的关系等进行概述。