Similarly, the role of Thnsl2 as a dephosphatase on phosphorylated amino acids (Donini et al. 2006) does not immediately suggest a role in viral infection, Nevertheless, it is clear that further work must be done to clarify the potential roles these genes have in mediating any potential host responses to infection, although our conservative approach strongly suggests that they do in fact play roles in the host response. Here, THNSL2 is linked to viral infectious disease.