Damage and Failure of Hot Dry Rock under Cyclic Liquid Nitrogen Cold Shock Treatment: A Non-destructive Ultrasonic Test Method - Yong Sun; Cheng Zhai; Jizhao Xu; Xu Yu; Yuzhou Cong; Yangfeng Zheng; Wei Tang; Yujie Li (Natural Resources Research, 2022)

Melatonin secretion, molecular expression and evolution of MT1/2 in two Lasiopodomys species - Hong Sun; Dan Pan; Denghui Liu; Yuyang Cheng; Yifeng Zhang; Zhenlong Wang (Mammalian Biology, 2022)

Perfluoroalkyl acids in dust on residential indoor/outdoor window glass in Chinese cities: occurrence, composition, and toddler exposure - Zhen Zhao; Linxia Yue; Hongqin Qiao; Yinong Li; Xianghui Cheng; Xia Hua; Tian Lin; Qilu Li; Hongwen Sun (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

MiR-582-3p participates in the regulation of biological behaviors of A549 cells by ambient PM2.5 exposure - Mei Yang; Liangliang Ju; Changlian Li; Han Cheng; Na Li; Qi Zhang; Shu Sun; Liu Ding; Xinmiao Sui; Chao Zhang; Mingwei Yang; Jiyu Cao; et al. (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

Comparative Genomic Analysis of Streptococcus pneumoniae Strains: Penicillin Non-susceptible Multi-drug-Resistant Serotype 19A Isolates - Lifeng Li; Juanjuan Zhou; Mingchao Li; Zengyuan Yu; Kaijie Gao; Junwen Yang; Ping Cheng; Junmei Yang; Wancun Zhang; Zhidan Yu; Huiqing Sun (Current Microbiology, 2022)

Distribution of Coomassie Blue Stainable Particles in the Pearl River Estuary, China, Insight Into the Nitrogen Cycling in Estuarine System - Cui-Ci Sun; Wei-Zhong Yue; You-Shao Wang; Wei-Hong He; Yi-Guo Hong; Fu-Lin Sun; Hao Cheng; Mei-Lin Wu; Zhao-Yu Jiang; Fei Jiao; Yu-Tu Wang (Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022)
Distributions of Coomassie Blue stainable particles (CSP), the sources and transports, as well as their implications for nitrogen biogeochemical cycles in the Pearl River estuary (PRE) were investigated during two cruises in August 2016 and January 2017. CSP color concentrations (CSP concentration determined spectrophotometrically) were 73.7–685.3 μg BSA eq L –1 [μg Bovine serum albumin (BSA) equivalent liter –1 ] in August 2016 and 100.6–396.4 μg BSA eq L –1 in January 2017, respectively. CSP concentrations were high in low-salinity waters (<5), and declined from the river to the middle estuary by 80% in the wet season and 55.6% in the dry season, respectively, then increased again in the lower estuary due to high primary production. CSP concentrations were mainly associated with chlorophyll a (Chl a ) concentration except for the turbid mixing zone, suggesting that autochthonous phytoplankton production served as the primary source of CSP in the PRE. The concentrations of nitrogen (N) as CSP in the PRE were comparable to the nitrogen content of particulate hydrolysable amino acids (PHAA). Pictures of CSP taken by microscopy and the correlation between composition of PHAA and the ratio of Chl a /CSP color showed that CSP were relatively degraded due to delivery of old terrestrial protein to river section and extensive microbial degradation during mixing at the upper and middle parts of the estuary, whereas CSP in lower estuary appeared to be more labile due to higher fresh algal production. The contribution of CSP nitrogen (CSP-N) to the particulate nitrogen (PN) pool was 34.98% in summer and 30.8% in winter. The conservative estimate of CSP-N input flux in the Pearl River Delta was about 6 × 10 6 mol N d –1 . These results suggested that CSP was a significant pool of organic nitrogen in the PRE. The study of CSP composition in terms of nitrogen provides new insight into the roles of CSP on nitrogen biogeochemical processes in the turbid and productive estuarine system.

Seven new glycosides from the leaves of Datura metel L. - Jin-Yan Tan; Yan Liu; Yan-Gang Cheng; Yan-Ping Sun; Xiao-Mao Li; Wei Guan; Juan Pan; Bing-You Yang; Hai-Xue Kuang (Natural Product Research, 2022)

YAP regulates porcine skin-derived stem cells self-renewal partly by repressing Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway - Hong-Chen Yan; Yu Sun; Ming-Yu Zhang; Shu-Er Zhang; Jia-Dong Sun; Paul W. Dyce; Francesca Gioia Klinger; Massimo De Felici; Wei Shen; Shun-Feng Cheng (Histochemistry and Cell Biology, 2022)

Pseudorange error prediction for adaptive tightly coupled GNSS/IMU navigation in urban areas - Rui Sun; Zixuan Zhang; Qi Cheng; Washington Yotto Ochieng (GPS Solutions, 2022)

Understanding the “SMART” features of hematopoietic stem cells and beyond - Shiru Yuan; Guohuan Sun; Yawen Zhang; Fang Dong; Hui Cheng; Tao Cheng (Science China Life Sciences, 2021)

Longitudinal virological changes and underlying pathogenesis in hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Guangzhou, China - Zhengtu Li; Yinhu Li; Ruilin Sun; Shaoqiang Li; Lingdan Chen; Yangqing Zhan; Mingzhou Xie; Jiasheng Yang; Yanqun Wang; Airu Zhu; Guoping Gu; Le Yu; et al. (Science China Life Sciences, 2021)

The Role of HMGB1 in Invasive Candida albicans Infection - JiaoJiao Wang; ChuanXin Wu; YunYing Wang; ChongXiang Chen; Jing Cheng; XiaoLong Rao; Hang Sun (Mycopathologia, 2021)

Neonatal Anesthesia by Ketamine in Neonatal Rats Inhibits the Proliferation and Differentiation of Hippocampal Neural Stem Cells and Decreases Neurocognitive Function in Adulthood via Inhibition of the Notch1 Signaling Pathway - He Huang; Chao Zhao; Qian Hu; Qiang Liu; Yi-Man Sun; Chen Chen; Hui Huang; Cheng-Hua Zhou; Yu-Qing Wu (Molecular Neurobiology, 2021)

Correction to: Ocean acidification alters the thermal performance curves of brooded larvae from the reef coral Pocillopora damicornis - Lei Jiang; You-Fang Sun; Yu-Yang Zhang; Yuan Tian; Xin-Ming Lei; Guo-Wei Zhou; Tao Yuan; Xiang-Cheng Yuan; Sheng Liu; Hui Huang (Coral Reefs, 2021)

Efficiency of sulfamethoxazole removal from wastewater using aerobic granular sludge: influence of environmental factors - Di Cui; Zeyi Chen; Ximing Cheng; Guochen Zheng; Yuan Sun; Hongna Deng; Wenlan Li (Biodegradation, 2021)

Climate change may interact with nitrogen fertilizer management leading to different ammonia loss in China’s croplands - Xiangrui Xu; Xiao Ouyang; Yining Gu; Kun Cheng; Pete Smith; Jianfei Sun; Yunpeng Li; Genxing Pan (Global Change Biology, 2021)
Despite research into the response of ammonia (NH 3 ) volatilization in farmland to various meteorological factors, the potential impact of future climate change on NH 3 volatilization is not fully understood. Based on a database consisting of 1063 observations across China, nonlinear NH 3 models considering crop type, meteorological, soil and management variables were established via four machine learning methods, including support vector machine, multi‐layer perceptron, gradient boosting machine and random forest (RF). The RF model had the highest R 2 of 0.76 and the lowest RMSE of 0.82 kg NH 3 ‐N ha − 1 , showing the best simulation capability. Results of model importance indicated that NH 3 volatilization was mainly controlled by total input of N fertilizer, followed by meteorological factors, human managements and soil characteristics. The NH 3 emissions of China's cereal production (paddy rice, wheat and maize) in 2018 was estimated to be 3.3 Mt NH 3 ‐N. By 2050, NH 3 volatilization will increase by 23.1−32.0% under different climate change scenarios (Representative Concentration Pathways, RCPs), and climate change will have the greatest impact on NH 3 volatilization in the Yangtze river agro‐region of China due to high warming effects. However, the potential increase in NH 3 volatilization under future climate change can be mitigated by 26.1−47.5% through various N fertilizer management optimization options.

Station‐based non‐linear regression downscaling approach: A new monthly precipitation downscaling technique - Zexi Shen; Qiang Zhang; Vijay P. Singh; Peng Sun; Chunyang He; Changxiu Cheng (International Journal of Climatology, 2021)
Statistical downscaling is an effective way to downscale General Circulation Model (GCM) outputs to a finer temporal and spatial scale. Here, we proposed and trained a new station‐based non‐linear regression downscaling (SNRD) approach, and quantitatively demonstrated its better performance than linear regression model. In addition, we also compared the SNRD method with the Bias Correction Spatial Disaggregation (BCSD) method, which has been widely applied on downscaling precipitation. Results indicated that RMSEs and residuals of the BCSD method are 4.6–31 times as ones of SNRD in each region of China during validation period (2004–2015). Besides, with historical in‐situ observed monthly mean precipitation as the benchmark, SNRD downscaled model modified the over‐estimation (1.25–2 times as observed precipitation) flaw of BCSD model in rainy season (June–August) of China, which could provide assistance on the further researches on drought events in rainy season in future. Further, we also surprisingly found that the 2,500 m was the threshold height for statistical downscaling models. Both BCSD and SNRD downscaled precipitation displayed more steadily and accurately above 2,500 m, since there are less intense human activities in China. Thus, we recommend further studies should fully consider the height element in downscaling models to improve the accuracies.

Synchronization Control of Dynamic Positioning Ships Using Model Predictive Control - Cheng Liu; Ting Sun; Qizhi Hu (Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2021)
Underway replenishment is essential for ships performing long-term missions at sea, which can be formulated into the problem of leader-tracking configuration. Not only the position and orientation but also the velocities are required to be controlled for ensuring the synchronization; additionally, the control inputs are constrained. On this basis, in this paper, a novel synchronization controller on account of model predictive control (MPC) for dynamic positioning (DP) ships is devised to achieve underway replenishment. Firstly, a novel synchronization controller based on MPC is devised to ensure the synchronization of not only the position and orientation but the velocities; furthermore, it is a beneficial solution for its advantages in handling the control input constraints ignored in most studies of underway replenishment. Secondly, a neurodynamic optimization system is applied to the implementation of MPC, which can improve the computational efficiency and shorten the simulation time. Thirdly, stability, frequently neglected by traditional MPC, is ensured by the means of adding a terminal cost function exported from the Lyapunov equation into the objective function. Finally, the effectiveness and advantages of the proposed control design are illustrated by extensive simulations.

Cytotoxic triterpenoid glycosides from leaves of Cyclocarya paliurus - Hui-Hui Sun; Wen-Yan Lv; Jie Tan; Yu-Cheng Tang; Hui Zhu; Jian-Bo Qu; Jing Li; Jian-Ping Wu; Xi-Wen Chang; Zhi-Chun Yang; Wen-Xuan Wang; Zu-Hui Chen; et al. (Natural Product Research, 2021)

Monitoring Sediment and Water Chemistry in Small Remote Aquatic Systems in East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea - Pei Sun Loh; Chen-Tung Arthur Chen; Ting-Hsuan Huang; Hon-Kit Lui; Jiann-Yuh Lou; Hong-Wei Yuan; Long-Xiu Cheng; Xue-Gang Chen; Jianfang Chen (Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 2021)

Lactate anions participate in T cell cytokine production and function - Jing Wen; Shipeng Cheng; Yaguang Zhang; Ran Wang; Jiefang Xu; Zhiyang Ling; Liyan Ma; Xinghao Ai; Bing Sun (Science China Life Sciences, 2021)

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Characterization of Preclinical Pharmacokinetic Properties and Prediction of Human PK Using a Physiologically Based Pharmacokinetic Model for a Novel Anti-Arrhythmic Agent Sulcardine Sulfate - Chang Ren; Yao Wang; Mei Zhang; Dexuan Kong; Chen Ning; Yujie Cheng; Yueying Bian; Mengqi Sun; Shengdi Su; Yucong Wang; Yongjie Zhang; Yang Lu; et al. (Pharmaceutical Research, 2021)

Transformation of bisphenol AF by chlorination: kinetic study and product identification - Jingyi Chang; Wenrui Xiang; Ruijuan Qu; Cheng Sun; Zunyao Wang; Feng Zhu; Zongli Huo (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

Comparative physiological and proteomic analyses of mangrove plant Kandelia obovata under cold stress - Jiao Fei; You-Shao Wang; Hao Cheng; Fu-Lin Sun; Cui-Ci Sun (Ecotoxicology, 2021)

Bacterial community variations in the South China Sea driven by different chemical conditions - Fu-lin Sun; You-Shao Wang; Mei-Lin Wu; Cui-Ci Sun; Zhao-Yu Jiang; Hao Cheng; Jiao Fei (Ecotoxicology, 2021)

Abundance and Characteristics of Microplastics in Seawater and Corals From Reef Region of Sanya Bay, China - Xinming Lei; Hao Cheng; Yong Luo; Yuyang Zhang; Lei Jiang; Youfang Sun; Guowei Zhou; Hui Huang (Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021)
Microplastics (MPs) contamination is widespread in the coral reef ecosystems leading to the exposure of both corals and other biotas. Knowledge gaps still exist concerning patterns in MPs abundance spatially. This work quantified the MPs abundance and characteristics in the seawater and corals in the Sanya Bay, Hainan Island. MPs abundance was detected in the seawater and coral samples ranging from 15.50 to 22.14 items L –1 , and 0.01 to 3.60 items polyp –1 , respectively. We found the predominant size and type of MPs in seawater and corals were smaller than 2 mm and fiber. Further analysis revealed that the characteristics of MPs in the corals were significantly different from those in the seawater environment, indicating that the MPs are selectively enriched in corals. Furthermore, the MPs particles ingested and retained in coral tissue may be related to the polyp size. This study shows that MPs are present in the whole coral reef region and the coral community structure would be potentially harmed by these contaminants.

SIRT1 Protects Dopaminergic Neurons in Parkinson’s Disease Models via PGC-1α-Mediated Mitochondrial Biogenesis - Yu Chen; Yuhui Jiang; Yinuo Yang; Xinzhong Huang; Cheng Sun (Neurotoxicity Research, 2021)

SETD3 Downregulation Mediates PTEN Upregulation-Induced Ischemic Neuronal Death Through Suppression of Actin Polymerization and Mitochondrial Function - Xiangyu Xu; Yu Cui; Congqin Li; Yuyang Wang; Jing Cheng; Songfeng Chen; Jiangdong Sun; Jinyang Ren; Xujin Yao; Jingchen Gao; Xiaohong Huang; Qi Wan; et al. (Molecular Neurobiology, 2021)

Integrated 16S rRNA Gene Sequencing and LC-MS Analysis Revealed the Interplay Between Gut Microbiota and Plasma Metabolites in Rats With Ischemic Stroke - Wanfeng Wu; Yihang Sun; Ning Luo; Cheng Cheng; Chengting Jiang; Qingping Yu; Shaowu Cheng; Jinwen Ge (Journal of Molecular Neuroscience, 2021)

Qingbo, a common cyprinid fish, responds diversely in behavior and locomotion to predators with different hunting modes - Cheng Fu; Lian-Chun Yi; Wen-Pei Wu; Chun-Xiao Sun; Rui-Na Liu; Shi-Jian Fu (Fish Physiology and Biochemistry, 2021)

Methyl siloxanes in soils from a large silicone-manufacturing site, China: concentrations, distributions and potential human exposure - Jiali Cheng; Zhenwu Tang; Yan Ma; Hongmin Yin; Tong Meng; Jiazheng Sun (Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 2021)

Ocean acidification alters the thermal performance curves of brooded larvae from the reef coral Pocillopora damicornis - Lei Jiang; You-Fang Sun; Yu-Yang Zhang; Yuan Tian; Xin-Ming Lei; Guo-Wei Zhou; Tao Yuan; Xiang-Cheng Yuan; Sheng Liu; Hui Huang (Coral Reefs, 2021)

Development of a dual-labeled, hydrolysis probe-based, real-time quantitative PCR assay for detection of both genotypes of duck circovirus-1 (DuCV-1) and DuCV-2 - Lin Zhang; Wenming Jiang; Fuyou Zhang; Yang Li; Jinping Li; Shaobo Liang; Xiaohui Yu; Cheng Peng; Shuo Liu; Jingjing Wang; Shuhong Sun; Hualei Liu (Virus Genes, 2021)

A new IMU-aided multiple GNSS fault detection and exclusion algorithm for integrated navigation in urban environments - Rui Sun; Junhui Wang; Qi Cheng; Yi Mao; Washington Yotto Ochieng (GPS Solutions, 2021)

24-epibrassinolide enhanced cold tolerance of winter turnip rape (Brassica rapa L.) - Yao Li; Yuanpei Sun; Cheng Ma; Xin Kang; Juan Wang; Tengguo Zhang (Biologia, 2021)

Marinomonas vulgaris sp. nov., a marine bacterium isolated from seawater in a coastal intertidal zone of Zhoushan island - Jun-Jie Ying; Yuan-Chun Fang; Yong-Lian Ye; Zhi-Cheng Wu; Lin Xu; Bing-Nan Han; Cong Sun (Archives of Microbiology, 2021)

Evaluation of the antiviral activity of naringenin, a major constituent of Typha angustifolia , against white spot syndrome virus in crayfish Procambarus clarkii - Zhong‐Chen Sun; Cheng Chen; Fei‐Fan Xu; Bing‐Ke Li; Jing‐Lei Shen; Tao Wang; Hai‐Feng Jiang; Gao‐Xue Wang (Journal of Fish Diseases, 2021)
White spot syndrome virus (WSSV) is a serious pathogen threatening global crustacean aquaculture with no commercially available drugs. Herbal medicines widely used in antiviral research offer a rich reserve for drug discovery. Here, we investigated the inhibitory activity of 13 herbal medicines against WSSV in crayfish Procambarus clarkii and discovered that naringenin (NAR) has potent anti‐WSSV activity. In the preliminary screening, the extracts of Typha angustifolia displayed the highest inhibitory activity on WSSV replication (84.62%, 100 mg/kg). Further, NAR, the main active compound of T. angustifolia, showed a much higher inhibition rate (92.85%, 50 mg/kg). NAR repressed WSSV proliferation followed a dose‐dependent manner and significantly improved the survival of WSSV‐challenged crayfish. Moreover, pre‐ or post‐treatment of NAR displayed a comparable inhibition on the viral loads. NAR decreased the transcriptional levels of vital genes in viral life cycle, particularly for the immediately early‐stage gene ie1 . Further results showed that NAR could decrease the STAT gene expression to block ie1 transcription. Besides, NAR modulated immune‐related gene Hsp70 , antioxidant ( cMnSOD, mMnSOD, CAT, GST ), anti‐inflammatory ( COX‐1 , COX‐2 ) and pro‐apoptosis‐related factors (Bax and BI‐1) to inhibit WSSV replication. Overall, these results suggest that NAR may have the potential to be developed as preventive or therapeutic agent against WSSV.

Isolation and evaluation of the biocontrol potential of Talaromyces spp. against rice sheath blight guided by soil microbiome - Aqleem Abbas; Yanping Fu; Zheng Qu; Huizhang Zhao; Yongjian Sun; Yang Lin; Jiatao Xie; Jiasen Cheng; Daohong Jiang (Environmental Microbiology, 2021)
Summary Rice sheath blight caused by Rhizoctonia solani is the major disease of rice that seriously threatens food security worldwide. Efficient and eco‐friendly biological approaches are urgently needed since no resistant cultivars are available. In this study, fallow and paddy soils were initially subjected to microbiome analyses, and the results showed that Talaromyces spp. were significantly more abundant in the paddy soil, while Trichoderma spp. were more abundant in the fallow soil, suggesting that Talaromyces spp. could live and survive better in the paddy soil. Five Talaromyces isolates, namely, TF‐04, TF‐03, TF‐02, TF‐01 and TA‐02, were isolated from the paddy soil using sclerotia of R . solani as baits and were further evaluated for their activity against rice sheath blight. These isolates efficiently parasitized the hyphae and rotted the sclerotia even at higher water contents in the sterilized sand and the soil. Isolate TF‐04 significantly promoted rice growth, reduced the severity of rice sheath blight and increased the rice yield under outdoor conditions. Defence‐related genes were upregulated and enzyme activities were enhanced in rice treated with isolate TF‐04. Our research supplies a microbiome‐guided approach to screen biological control agents and provides Talaromyces isolates to biologically control rice sheath blight.

Vertical Fine-Scale Distribution of Calanus sinicus in the Yellow Sea Cold Water Mass During the Over-Summering Process - Jun Pan; Fangping Cheng; Fei Yu; Yongqiang Shi; Fan Sun; Guangcheng Si; Chuanjie Wei; Xinyuan Diao; Yongfang Zhao (Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021)
Calanus sinicus , a temperate copepod with a lethal temperature >27°C, is one of the key species in Chinese coastal marine ecosystems. The C. sinicus population increases in spring and declines in early summer annually due to increasing water temperature. Numerous C. sinicus individuals then congregate in the Yellow Sea Cold Water Mass (YSCWM) and remain under the thermocline from early summer to early autumn. Development and reproduction is halted in this cold and foodless bottom water and they avoid ascending to the hot surface water, which is regarded as an over-summering strategy. Based on discrete water sampling approaches, previous studies demonstrated that higher chlorophyll a (Chl a) levels appeared in the mixed hot surface water layer; however, the subsurface chlorophyll a maximum layer (SCML) has seldom been described. In the present study, various probes and a visual plankton recorder (VPR) were used to determine the fine vertical distributions of environmental factors and C. sinicus . VPR observations showed the ecological responses in fine scale and indicated that few C. sinicus individuals ascend at night, the main population preferred to remain below the SCML all day long. The results demonstrated that a constant thin SCML existed in the YSCWM area, and that the SCML location coincided with or was beneath the thermocline and halocline layers, where the temperature was suitable for C. sinicus . The relationship between abundance and Chl a, showed the diel vertical migration trend of C. sinicus to feed at night in the YSCWM area. In addition to temperature as a main influencing factor, dissolved oxygen concentrations and column depth were also influencing factors. Therefore, in addition to avoiding high surface temperature, energy supplement may be an important driving force confining the diel vertical migration of C. sinicus in the Yellow Sea in summer.

Dietary Analysis Based on 18S rDNA, and Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopes in Juvenile Eriocheir sinensis Crabs Reared Under Three Feeding Modes - Zhenzhen Lu; Yunfei Sun; Changlun Xiao; Yongxu Cheng (Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021)
To investigate the growth and feeding conditions of the Chinese mitten crab Eriocheir sinensis under different feeding modes: traditional (mainly consisting of wheat, bran, and soybean meal), formulated, and mixed feeds (1:1 mixture of traditional and formulated feeds) were fed in different crab breeding ponds in this study. During the experiment, the stomach contents of juvenile crabs under the different feeding modes were collected. The main potential eukaryotic food components were studied using 18S ribosomal DNA sequencing, and the contribution of different feeding modes to the feeding source of juvenile crabs were analyzed using C and N stable isotopes. The terminal weight and weight gain rate of crabs under the formulated feeding mode were significantly higher than those in the traditional and mixed feeding modes ( P < 0.05). No differences were observed in the diversity and abundance of the main potential eukaryotic feed components of male and female crabs under different feeding modes ( P > 0.05). Thirty-four phyla, composed mainly of benthic organisms, were identified, with Arthropoda (mainly including Malacostraca, 30.25–51.48%), Phragmoplastophyta (mainly including Embryophyta and Trebouxiophyceae, 5.08–24.74%), and Diatomea (3.13–8.43%) being the most abundant. The δ 13 C and δ 15 N values of the feeding sources and muscle of crabs ranged from −34.45 to −22.21‰, and from 0.27 to 5.66‰, respectively, varying greatly among the three feeding modes and δ 15 N value of muscle under formulated feeding mode was significantly higher than that in traditional feeding mode ( P < 0.05). The proportion of particulate organic matter (11.92–17.50%) is similar to Alternanthera philoxeroides (11.24–16.03%) in three feeding modes. There was no significant difference in feeding habits between male and female crabs under the same and different feeding modes. Juvenile crabs feed on both plant- and animal-based feeds in an aquaculture pond, but they are not complete predators and selectively feed on animal or plant feeds as supplements of that which is deficient, in addition to their main feed.

Correlations between Dual-Pathway White Matter Alterations and Language Impairment in Patients with Aphasia: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis - Jie Zhang; Shuchang Zhong; Liang Zhou; Yamei Yu; Xufei Tan; Min Wu; Peng Sun; Wei Zhang; Juebao Li; Ruidong Cheng; Yanfei Wu; Yanmei Yu; et al. (Neuropsychology Review, 2021)

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Comprehensive evaluation of water resources carrying capacity and analysis of obstacle factors in Weifang City based on hierarchical cluster analysis-VIKOR method - Haiyan Yang; Yinan Tan; Xiaobo Sun; Xiaowen Cheng; Guangqi Liu; Guangyu Zhou (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

Enhanced degradation of reactive brilliant red X-3B by photocatalysis integrated with micro-electrolysis - Gong Cheng; Yibo Zhang; Lei Sun; Jing Wan; Zhang Li; Chenyuan Dang; Jie Fu (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

A Temporal Precision Approach for Deep Transcranial Optogenetics with Non-invasive Surgery - Shanshan Sun; Jiali Shi; Yongjie Wang; Jun Cheng; Zhihui Huang (Neuroscience Bulletin, 2021)

The Water-Soluble Pool in Biochar Dominates Maize Plant Growth Promotion Under Biochar Amendment - Cheng Liu; Baobao Sun; Xuhui Zhang; Xiaoyu Liu; Marios Drosos; Lianqing Li; Genxing Pan (Journal of Plant Growth Regulation, 2021)

Extracting copper and cobalt from non-ferrous residues by iron- and sulfur-oxidizing bacteria - Jianxing Sun; Wenxian Liu; Ruichang Tang; Haina Cheng; Ronghui Liu; Kang Liu; Wenhao Zhan; Yang Ge; Hongbo Zhou; Yuguang Wang (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

Impact of the April–May SAM on Central Pacific Ocean sea temperature over the following three seasons - Ting Liu; Jianping Li; Cheng Sun; Tao Lian; Yazhou Zhang (Climate Dynamics, 2021)
Although the impact of the extratropical Pacific signal on the El Niño–Southern Oscillation has attracted increasing concern, the impact of Southern Hemisphere Annular Mode (SAM)-related signals from outside the southern Pacific Basin on the equatorial sea temperature has received less attention. This study explores the lead correlation between the April–May (AM) SAM and central tropical Pacific sea temperature variability over the following three seasons. For the positive AM SAM case, the related simultaneous warm SST anomalies in the southeastern Indian Ocean favor significant regulation of vertical circulation in the Indian Ocean with anomalous ascending motion in the tropics. This can further enhance convection over the Marine Continent, which induces a significant horizontal Kelvin response and regulates the vertical Walker circulation. These two processes both result in the anomalous easterlies east of 130° E in the equatorial Pacific during AM. These easterly anomalies favor oceanic upwelling and eastward propagation of the cold water into the central Pacific. The cold water in turn amplifies the development of the easterly wind and further maintains the cold water into the boreal winter. The results presented here not only provide a possible link between extratropical climate variability in the Indian Ocean and climate variation in the equatorial Pacific, but also shed new light on the short-term prediction of tropical central Pacific sea temperature.

Aestuariibaculum sediminum sp. nov., a marine bacterium isolated from a tidal flat in Zhoushan - Zhi-Cheng Wu; Xin-Yin Zhang; Cong Sun; Lin Xu; Ge-Yi Fu; Xue-Wei Xu (Archives of Microbiology, 2021)

5-HTTLPR polymorphism and depression risk in Parkinson's disease: an updated meta-analysis - Pengfei Cheng; Junxiang Zhang; Yu Wu; Wenting Liu; Jiaying Zhu; Ze Chen; Jiarui Zhang; Songwen Guan; Yiming Sun; Jingxia Wang (Acta Neurologica Belgica, 2021)

Inhibition of fruit softening by cold plasma treatments: affecting factors and applications - Ya-Wen Pan; Jun-Hu Cheng; Da-Wen Sun (Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, 2021)

Dietary protein degradability effect on performance of lambs experimentally infected with Haemonchus contortus and Trichostrongylus colubriformis - Emmanuel M. Atiba; Yunfei Li; Wenge Cheng; Yue Li; Ningning Sun; Zewei Sun; Qingzhen Zhong (Tropical Animal Health and Production, 2021)

Restricted Feeding Resets Endogenous Circadian Rhythm in Female Mice Under Constant Darkness - Yue Mei; Huajing Teng; Zhigang Li; Cheng Zeng; Yuanyuan Li; Wei Song; Kaifan Zhang; Zhong Sheng Sun; Yan Wang (Neuroscience Bulletin, 2021)

The Tetramethylpyrazine Analogue T-006 Alleviates Cognitive Deficits by Inhibition of Tau Expression and Phosphorylation in Transgenic Mice Modeling Alzheimer’s Disease - Guiliang Zhang; Jiahui Wu; Chunhui Huang; Jiehong Cheng; Zhiyang Su; Zeyu Zhu; Xifei Yang; Baojian Guo; Liangmiao Wu; Zaijun Zhang; Gaoxiao Zhang; Haiyun Chen; et al. (Journal of Molecular Neuroscience, 2021)

The importance of inter‐basin atmospheric teleconnection in the SST footprint of Atlantic multidecadal oscillation over western Pacific - Cheng Sun; Yusen Liu; Jiaqing Xue; Fred Kucharski; Jianping Li; Xichen Li (Climate Dynamics, 2021)

Foetidibacter luteolus gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from the rhizosphere of Salvia miltiorrhiza - Qian Pu; Guo-hong Zeng; Gui-wei Wang; Ling-er Lu; Ang Li; Xu-rui Cheng; Xue-ying Wang; Ou Li; Cong Sun; Xiu-fang Hu (Archives of Microbiology, 2021)

Dynamic Breakage Characteristics of Shale with Different Bedding Angles under the Different Ambient Temperatures - Xueru Fan; Ning Luo; Hanliang Liang; Xin Sun; Cheng Zhai; Lixiang Xie (Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, 2021)

Identification of differentially expressed genes associated with aluminum resistance in the soybean plant - Jing-xuan Wang; Bo Wang; Lu-bin Cui; Hao Xie; Run-zhi Li; Cheng Wang; Zhang-jie Nan; Yu-shu Liu; Jing-yu Ma; Yun-jin Sun; Wei-yu Li (Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants, 2021)

Galectin-9 Promotes Neuronal Restoration via Binding TLR-4 in a Rat Intracerebral Hemorrhage Model - Tianyu Liang; Cheng Ma; Tianyi Wang; Ruming Deng; Jiasheng Ding; Wenjie Wang; Zhongmou Xu; Xiang Li; Haiying Li; Qing Sun; Haitao Shen; Zhong Wang; et al. (NeuroMolecular Medicine, 2021)

New 40Ar/39Ar and (U-Th)/He dating for the Zhunuo porphyry Cu deposit, Gangdese belt, southern Tibet: implications for pulsed magmatic-hydrothermal processes and ore exhumation and preservation - Xiang Sun; Cheng-Biao Leng; Pete Hollings; Qing-Jie Song; Ru-Yue Li; Xiu-Quan Wan (Mineralium Deposita, 2021)

Syntheses and anticancer activities of novel glucosylated (−)-epigallocatechin-3-gallate derivatives linked via triazole rings - Bo-Ya Shi; Ze-Hao Wang; Ning Zhang; Yin-Rong Xie; Xiu-Li Sun; Hao-Nan Yang; Yi-Long Wu; Cheng-Ting Zi; Xuan-Jun Wang; Jun Sheng (Medicinal Chemistry Research, 2021)

Molecular breeding and the impacts of some important genes families on agronomic traits, a review - Mohamad Hesam Shahrajabian; Wenli Sun; Qi Cheng (Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, 2021)

Oxidation of benzophenone-3 in aqueous solution by potassium permanganate: kinetics, degradation products, reaction pathways, and toxicity assessment - Wanming Cao; Nannan Wu; Ruijuan Qu; Cheng Sun; Zongli Huo; Jamaan S. Ajarem; Ahmed A. Allam; Zunyao Wang; Feng Zhu (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

Effects of repetitive submergence on the accumulation and release of nutrient elements in Pinus elliottii seedlings - Yan Guo; Yafei Shen; Ruimei Cheng; Wenfa Xiao; Shao Yang; Lijun Wang; Pengfei Sun (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

PHD Finger Protein 19 Promotes Cardiac Hypertrophy via Epigenetically Regulating SIRT2 - Wei Gu; Yutong Cheng; Su Wang; Tao Sun; Zhizhong Li (Cardiovascular Toxicology, 2021)
Epigenetic regulations essentially participate in the development of cardiomyocyte hypertrophy. PHD finger protein 19 (PHF19) is a polycomb protein that controls H3K36me3 and H3K27me3. However, the roles of PHF19 in cardiac hypertrophy remain unknown. Here in this work, we observed that PHF19 promoted cardiac hypertrophy via epigenetically targeting SIRT2. In angiotensin II (Ang II)-induced cardiomyocyte hypertrophy, adenovirus-mediated knockdown of Phf19 reduced the increase in cardiomyocyte size, repressed the expression of hypertrophic marker genes Anp and Bnp , as well as inhibited protein synthesis. By contrast, Phf19 overexpression promoted Ang II-induced cardiomyocyte hypertrophy in vitro. We also knocked down Phf19 expression in mouse hearts in vivo. The results demonstrated that Phf19 knockdown reduced Ang II-induced decline in cardiac fraction shortening and ejection fraction. Phf19 knockdown also inhibited Ang II-mediated increase in heart weight, reduced cardiomyocyte size, and repressed the expression of hypertrophic marker genes in mouse hearts. Further mechanism studies showed that PHF19 suppressed the expression of SIRT2, which contributed to the function of PHF19 during cardiomyocyte hypertrophy. PHF19 bound the promoter of SIRT2 and regulated the balance between H3K27me3 and H3K36me3 to repress the expression of SIRT2 in vitro and in vivo. In human hypertrophic hearts, the overexpression of PHF19 and downregulation of SIRT2 were observed. Of importance, PHF19 expression was positively correlated with hypertrophic marker genes ANP and BNP but negatively correlated with SIRT2 in human hypertrophic hearts. Therefore, our findings demonstrated that PHF19 promoted the development of cardiac hypertrophy via epigenetically regulating SIRT2.

Ring distribution patterns—diversification or speciation? Comparative phylogeography of two small mammals in the mountains surrounding the Sichuan Basin - Yanqun Wang; Anderson Feijó; Jilong Cheng; Lin Xia; Zhixin Wen; Deyan Ge; Jian Sun; Liang Lu; Song Li; Qisen Yang (Molecular Ecology, 2021)
Studying the genetic differentiation in a unique geographical area contributes to understanding the process of speciation. Here, we explore the spatial genetic structure and underlying formation mechanism of two congeneric small mammal species ( Apodemus draco and A. chevrieri ), which are mainly distributed in the mountains surrounding the lowland Sichuan Basin, southwest China. We applied a set of comparative phylogeographical analyses to determine their genetic diversification patterns, combining mitochondrial ( Cytb and COI ) and nuclear (microsatellite loci) markers, with dense sampling throughout the range (411 A . draco from 21 sites and 191 A . chevrieri from 22 sites). Moreover, we performed three complementary statistical methods to investigate the correlation between genotype and geographical and environmental components, and predicted the potential suitable distributional range under the present and historical climate conditions. Our results suggest that both species have experienced allopatric differentiation and admixture in historical periods, resulting in a ring‐shape diversification, under the barrier effect of the Sichuan Basin. We infer that the tectonic events of the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau and climatic oscillations during the Quaternary played an important role on the genetic divergence of the two species by providing environmental heterogeneity and geographical variation. Our study reveals a case of two sympatric small mammals following a ring‐shaped diversification pattern and provides insight into the process of differentiation.

A Fully-Automatic Segmentation of the Carpal Tunnel from Magnetic Resonance Images Based on the Convolutional Neural Network-Based Approach - Tai-Hua Yang; Cheng-Wei Yang; Yung-Nien Sun; Ming-Huwi Horng (Journal of Medical and Biological Engineering, 2021)
Purpose Carpal tunnel syndrome is one of the common peripheral neuropathies. For magnetic resonance imaging, segmentation of the carpal tunnel and its contents, including flexor tendons and the median nerve for magnetic resonance images is an important issue. In this study, a convolutional neural network (CNN) model, which was modified by the original DeepLabv3 + model to segment three primary structures of the carpal tunnel: the carpal tunnel, flexor tendon, and median nerve. Methods To extract important feature maps for segmentation of the carpal tunnel, flexor tendon, and median nerve, the proposed CNN model termed modified DeepLabv3 + uses DenseNet-121 as a backbone and adds dilated convolution to the original spatial pyramid pooling module. A MaskTrack method was used to refine the segmented results generated by modified DeepLabv3 + , which have a small and blurred appearance. For evaluation of the segmentation results, the average Dice similarity coefficients (ADSC) were used as the performance index. Results Sixteen MR images corresponding to different subjects were obtained from the National Cheng Kung University Hospital. Our proposed modified DeepLabv3 + generated the following ADSCs: 0.928 for carpal tunnel, 0.872 for flexor tendons and 0.785 for the median nerve. The ADSC value of 0.8053 generated the MaskTrack that 0.22 ADSC measure were improved for measuring the median nerve. Conclusions The experimental results showed that the proposed modified DeepLabv3 + model can promote segmentations of the carpal tunnel and its contents. The results are superior to the results generated by original DeepLabv3 + . Additionally, MaskTrack can also effectively refine median nerve segmentations.

Paraventricular Nucleus P2X7 Receptors Aggravate Acute Myocardial Infarction Injury via ROS-Induced Vasopressin-V1b Activation in Rats - Wenjing Cheng; Yinggang Sun; Qin Wu; Kokwin Ooi; Yi Feng; Chunmei Xia; Danian Zhu (Neuroscience Bulletin, 2021)
The present study was designed to investigate the mechanisms by which P2X7 receptors (P2X7Rs) mediate the activation of vasopressinergic neurons thereby increasing sympathetic hyperactivity in the paraventricular nucleus (PVN) of the hypothalamus of rats with acute myocardial ischemia (AMI). The left anterior descending branch of the coronary artery was ligated to induce AMI in rats. The rats were pretreated with BBG (brilliant blue G, a P2X7R antagonist), nelivaptan (a vasopressin V1b receptor antagonist), or diphenyleneiodonium (DPI) [an nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) oxidase inhibitor]. Hemodynamic parameters of the heart were monitored. Myocardial injury and cardiomyocyte apoptosis were assessed. In the PVN of AMI rats, P2X7R mediated microglial activation, while reactive oxygen species (ROS) and NADPH oxidase 2 (NOX2) were higher than in the sham group. Intraperitoneal injection of BBG effectively reduced ROS production and vasopressin expression in the PVN of AMI rats. Moreover, both BBG and DPI pretreatment effectively reduced sympathetic hyperactivity and ameliorated AMI injury, as represented by reduced inflammation and apoptosis of cardiomyocytes. Furthermore, microinjection of nelivaptan into the PVN improved cardiac function and reduced the norepinephrine (AE) levels in AMI rats. Collectively, the results suggest that, within the PVN of AMI rats, P2X7R upregulation mediates microglial activation and the overproduction of ROS, which in turn activates vasopressinergic neuron-V1b receptors and sympathetic hyperactivity, hence aggravating myocardial injury in the AMI setting.

Fibroblast Growth Factor 9 Stimulates Neuronal Length Through NF-kB Signaling in Striatal Cell Huntington’s Disease Models - Issa Olakunle Yusuf; Hsiu-Mei Chen; Pei-Hsun Cheng; Chih-Yi Chang; Shaw-Jenq Tsai; Jih-Ing Chuang; Chia-Ching Wu; Bu-Miin Huang; H. Sunny Sun; Chuan-Mu Chen; Shang-Hsun Yang (Molecular Neurobiology, 2021)

Origin of Indian Ocean multidecadal climate variability: role of the North Atlantic Oscillation - Tiejun Xie; Jianping Li; Kaiqi Chen; Yazhou Zhang; Cheng Sun (Climate Dynamics, 2021)
The multidecadal variability of Indian Ocean sea surface temperature (IOSST) has an important impact on both the regional Indian Ocean climate and the global climate. Here, we explore multidecadal variability in the annual IOSST. Observational analysis shows that the annual IOSST multidecadal variability is not only related to the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), but also to the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). The NAO leads by 15–20 years the detrended annual IOSST in which the PDO signal of the same period has been removed. Further analysis reveals that the NAO leads the annual IOSST multidecadal variability through its leading effect on the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO). The AMO affects the vertical wind anomaly in the Indian Ocean region through the Atlantic–Indian Ocean multidecadal teleconnection (AIMT), which in turn affects the net longwave radiation in the Indian Ocean region, thus driving the annual IOSST multidecadal variability. A Hasselmann model based on NAO and PDO further verify the joint influence of the NAO and PDO on the multidecadal variability of the IOSST. A PDO-based linear model and a climate model that incorporates the NAO signal are also constructed for the annual IOSST. Results show that the climate model with the NAO signal can better simulate the annual IOSST. This again verifies that the NAO is part of the annual IOSST multidecadal variability source, indicating that the annual IOSST variability may be due to the combined influences of the NAO and PDO.

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and its major role in plant growth, zinc nutrition, phosphorous regulation and phytoremediation - Parashuram Bhantana; Muhammad Shoaib Rana; Xue-cheng Sun; Mohamed G. Moussa; Muhammad Hamzah Saleem; Muhamad Syaifudin; Ashrafuzzaman Shah; Amrit Poudel; Amar Bahadur Pun; Mufid Alam Bhat; Dhanik Lal Mandal; Sujit Shah; et al. (Symbiosis, 2021)

Correction to: Molecular quantification of spider preying on springtails in winter-spring fallow waterlogged paddy fields - Jiaqi Sun; Shuai Pang; Xueqin Wang; Guanghua Wang; Zengrong Zhu; Jiaan Cheng; Yaoyu Bai (Applied Entomology and Zoology, 2021)

Molecular quantification of spider preying on springtails in winter-spring fallow waterlogged paddy fields - Jiaqi Sun; Shuai Pang; Xueqin Wang; Guanghua Wang; Zengrong Zhu; Jiaan Cheng; Yaoyu Bai (Applied Entomology and Zoology, 2021)

The Assessment of Global Surface Temperature Change from 1850s: The C-LSAT2.0 Ensemble and the CMST-Interim Datasets - Wenbin Sun; Qingxiang Li; Boyin Huang; Jiayi Cheng; Zhaoyang Song; Haiyan Li; Wenjie Dong; Panmao Zhai; Phil Jones (Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 2021)
Based on C-LSAT2.0, using high- and low-frequency components reconstruction methods, combined with observation constraint masking, a reconstructed C-LSAT2.0 with 756 ensemble members from the 1850s to 2018 has been developed. These ensemble versions have been merged with the ERSSTv5 ensemble dataset, and an upgraded version of the CMST-Interim dataset with 5° × 5° resolution has been developed. The CMST-Interim dataset has significantly improved the coverage rate of global surface temperature data. After reconstruction, the data coverage before 1950 increased from 78%–81% of the original CMST to 81%–89%. The total coverage after 1955 reached about 93%, including more than 98% in the Northern Hemisphere and 81%–89% in the Southern Hemisphere. Through the reconstruction ensemble experiments with different parameters, a good basis is provided for more systematic uncertainty assessment of C-LSAT2.0 and CMST-Interim. In comparison with the original CMST, the global mean surface temperatures are estimated to be cooler in the second half of 19th century and warmer during the 21st century, which shows that the global warming trend is further amplified. The global warming trends are updated from 0.085 ± 0.004°C (10 yr) −1 and 0.128 ± 0.006°C (10 yr) −1 to 0.089 ± 0.004°C (10 yr) −1 and 0.137 ± 0.007°C (10 yr) −1 , respectively, since the start and the second half of 20th century.

Temperature controls growth of Pinus taiwanensis along an elevational gradient - Min Lyu; Mengke Sun; Josep Peñuelas; Jordi Sardans; Jun Sun; Xiaoping Chen; Quanlin Zhong; Dongliang Cheng (Trees, 2021)

Transgenic eukaryotic microalgae as green factories: providing new ideas for the production of biologically active substances - Qianwen Shi; Cheng Chen; Wei Zhang; Ping Wu; Meng Sun; Hui Wu; Haizhen Wu; Pengcheng Fu; Jianhua Fan (Journal of Applied Phycology, 2021)

Microbiological profiles and antimicrobial resistance patterns of pediatric bloodstream pathogens in China, 2016–2018 - Yue Qiu; Junwen Yang; Yiping Chen; Jinhong Yang; Qingxiong Zhu; Chunhui Zhu; Shuangjie Li; Jing Liu; Chaomin Wan; Yu Zhu; Minxia Chen; Yi Xu; et al. (European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, 2021)

Methyl siloxanes in road dust from a large silicone manufacturing site in China: implications of human exposure - Jiali Cheng; Zhenwu Tang; Yan Ma; Hongmin Yin; Tong Meng; Jiazheng Sun (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

Synchronous Characteristics of Precipitation Extremes in the Yangtze and Murray-Darling River Basins and the Role of ENSO - Yu Gong; Tong Jiang; Buda Su; Jinlong Huang; Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz; Cheng Jing; Hemin Sun (Journal of Meteorological Research, 2021)

The molecular mechanism of a novel derivative of BTO-956 induced apoptosis in human myelomonocytic lymphoma cells - Yu-Lin Li; De-Jun Zhou; Zheng-Guo Cui; Lu Sun; Qian-Wen Feng; Shahbaz Ahmad Zakki; Yusuke Hiraku; Cheng-Ai Wu; Hidekuni Inadera (Apoptosis, 2021)

Improving Oral Bioavailability of Luteolin Nanocrystals by Surface Modification of Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate - Jiali Liu; Yongbing Sun; Meng Cheng; Qiaoming Liu; Wan Liu; Chao Gao; Jianfang Feng; Yi Jin; Liangxing Tu (AAPS PharmSciTech, 2021)

Anti-inflammatory monoterpene esters from the stems of Illigera aromatica - Xiao-Yun Pu; Kai Tian; Jing-Xian Sun; Wei Wang; Hong-Cheng Liu; Juan Yang; Meng-Yuan Jiang; Xiang-Zhong Huang (Natural Product Research, 2021)

New cytotoxic biflavones from Selaginella doederleinii - Li-Fei Liu; Hui-Hui Sun; Jian-Bing Tan; Qi Huang; Fei Cheng; Kang-Ping Xu; Zhen-Xing Zou; Gui-Shan Tan (Natural Product Research, 2021)

Characterization of a new gene for resistance to wheat powdery mildew on chromosome 1RL of wild rye Secale sylvestre - Huagang He; Haonan Du; Renkang Liu; Tianlei Liu; Lijun Yang; Shuangjun Gong; Zongxiang Tang; Haimei Du; Cheng Liu; Ran Han; Weihong Sun; Lei Wang; et al. (Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2021)

Exploring the impact of introducing a physical model into statistical methods on the evaluation of regional scale debris flow susceptibility - Jingbo Sun; Shengwu Qin; Shuangshuang Qiao; Yang Chen; Gang Su; Qiushi Cheng; Yanqing Zhang; Xu Guo (Natural Hazards, 2021)

Two-Photon Fluorescence Study of Olive Oils at Different Excitation Wavelengths - Jiameng Xu; Xianqiong Zhong; Mengyu Sun; Qili Chen; Zikang Zeng; Yingsen Chen; Ke Cheng (Journal of Fluorescence, 2021)

Groundwater sources, flow patterns, and hydrochemistry of the Central Yinchuan Plain, China - Ying Li; Ping Wu; Xiao-Qin Huang; Bo Zhang; Zhao-Xiang Xu; Yang Li; Jie Li; Lu-Chen Wang; Yu-Fang Sun; Xu-Chen Meng; Cheng-Wen Wang; Zi-Zhao Cai (Hydrogeology Journal, 2021)

Polybrominated diphenyl ethers in soils from Tianjin, North China: distribution, health risk, and temporal trends - Yu Han; Jiali Cheng; Lei He; Minna Zhang; Shan Ren; Jiazheng Sun; Xiangyang Xing; Zhenwu Tang (Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 2021)

Plant gasotransmitters: light molecules interplaying with heavy metals - Pingping Fang; Ting Sun; Yonggang Wang; Yanfei Ding; Arun Kumar Pandey; Cheng Zhu; Pei Xu (Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio/Technology, 2021)

Effects of degradation succession of alpine wetland on soil organic carbon and total nitrogen in the Yellow River source zone, west China - Chun-ying Lin; Xi-lai Li; Jing Zhang; Hua-fang Sun; Juan Zhang; Hui-bang Han; Qi-hua Wang; Cheng-biao Ma; Cheng-yi Li; Yu-xing Zhang; Xue-qian Ma (Journal of Mountain Science, 2021)

Pseudomonas laoshanensis sp. nov., isolated from peanut field soil - Ming-Qing Wang; Chu-Shu Zhang; Li-Na Yu; Wei-Qiang Yang; Kun Jiao; Kui-Jie Gong; Xiao-Yuan Chi; Jie Bi; Yu Song; Qing-Li Yang; Jian-Cheng Zhang; Gui-Wen Yang; et al. (Archives of Microbiology, 2021)

Varying support for abundance‐centre and congeneric‐competition hypotheses along elevational transects of mammals - Zhixin Wen; Deyan Ge; Anderson Feijó; Yuanbao Du; Jilong Cheng; Jian Sun; Yanqun Wang; Lin Xia; Qisen Yang (Journal of Biogeography, 2021)
Aim Whether species are most abundant at their geographic range centre and increasingly rare towards range limits (the abundance‐centre hypothesis, ACH) has weak empirical support in birds along elevational gradients. This may be due to empirical limitations—most studies do not capture the multi‐faceted nature of elevational gradients or species interactions. We examine the ACH and an alternative that the abundance maximum of elevational sympatric congeners will occur at different elevations along a gradient (the congeneric‐competition hypothesis, CCH). Location Twelve elevational gradients in Central and Southwest China. Taxon Five small mammal species, including three congeneric species. Methods The ACH was tested by fitting abundance patterns to Huisman‐Olff‐Fresco (HOF) models and measuring the relative elevational distance between a species' abundance‐weighted range centre ( RC Abu ) and its elevational range centre. The CCH was tested by calculating the elevational overlap value of each congeneric pair and the relative elevational distance ( RC AbuDiff ) between the RC Abu s of congeners. Results Abundances of each species showed diverse patterns along different gradients. For all species, a unimodal symmetric pattern appeared at most once among the studied gradients and found in only four (8.7%) of the total cases. Most (90.9%) of the Apodemus congeneric pairs had a high elevational overlap (above 75%). For each of the three congeneric pairs, 40.0% to 50.0% of the cases showed RC AbuDiff values > 0.25, suggesting that the congeners’ RC Abu s were separated by at least one elevational climate zone. Main conclusions Species' elevational abundance patterns may vary among different elevational gradients in the same geographic region. The elevational abundance patterns of five mammalian species were rarely consistent with the ACH after the spatial variability of the patterns was considered. The abundance patterns of congeneric species showed moderate support for the CCH.

Functionalization of water as a nonthermal approach for ensuring safety and quality of meat and seafood products - Okon Johnson Esua; Jun-Hu Cheng; Da-Wen Sun (Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, 2021)

Microbially Mediated Remediation of Contaminated Sediments by Heavy Metals: a Critical Review - Wenjie Sun; Kai Cheng; Kevin Y. Sun; Xingmao Ma (Current Pollution Reports, 2021)

Distribution and Assessment of Cr, Pb, Ni and Cd in Topsoil of the Modern Yellow River Delta, China - Hongjun Yang; Jingkuan Sun; Jiangbao Xia; Zhanyong Fu; Shuai Cheng; Tian Li; Pengshuai Shao; Kaikai Dong; Jinzhao Ma; Lu Feng (Wetlands, 2021)

The MYB transcription factor Baymax1 plays a critical role in rice male fertility - Xiao-Jiao Xiang; Lian-Ping Sun; Ping Yu; Zheng-Fu Yang; Pei-Pei Zhang; Ying-Xin Zhang; Wei-Xun Wu; Dai-Bo Chen; Xiao-Deng Zhan; Riaz-Muhammad Khan; Adil Abbas; Shi-Hua Cheng; et al. (Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2021)

In Situ Saturating Mutagenesis Screening Identifies a Functional Genomic Locus that Regulates Ucp1 Expression - Yan Qiu; Xiaojian Liu; Yingmin Sun; Shuang Li; Yuda Wei; Cheng Tian; Qiurong Ding (Phenomics, 2021)

Changes in arthropod community but not plant quality benefit a specialist herbivore on plants under reduced water availability - Po-An Lin; Chia-Ming Liu; Jia-Ang Ou; Cheng-Han Sun; Wen-Po Chuang; Chuan-Kai Ho; Natsuko Kinoshita; Gary W. Felton (Oecologia, 2021)

Diversity-oriented synthesis and antifungal activities of novel pimprinine derivative bearing a 1,3,4-oxadiazole-5-thioether moiety - Zi-Long Song; Yun Zhu; Jing-Rui Liu; Shu-Ke Guo; Yu-Cheng Gu; Xinya Han; Hong-Qiang Dong; Qi Sun; Wei-Hua Zhang; Ming-Zhi Zhang (Molecular Diversity, 2021)

Interleukin Enhancer Binding Factor 2 Regulates Cell Viability and Apoptosis of Human Brain Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells - Liang Wei; Cheng Yang; Guangxue Wang; Keqin Li; Yanfei Zhang; Hongxin Guan; Zhiyang Sun; Chunlong Zhong (Journal of Molecular Neuroscience, 2021)

Comparisons on the effects of temperature, runoff, and land-cover on carbonate weathering in different karst catchments: insights into the future global carbon cycle - Sibo Zeng; Zaihua Liu; Nico Goldscheider; Simon Frank; Nadine Goeppert; Georg Kaufmann; Cheng Zeng; Qingrui Zeng; Hailong Sun (Hydrogeology Journal, 2021)

Removal of azo dye from aqueous solution by a low-cost activated carbon prepared from coal: adsorption kinetics, isotherms study, and DFT simulation - Saeed Ullah Jan; Aziz Ahmad; Adnan Ali Khan; Saad Melhi; Iftikhar Ahmad; Guohua Sun; Cheng-Meng Chen; Rashid Ahmad (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

RNA m6A methylation promotes the formation of vasculogenic mimicry in hepatocellular carcinoma via Hippo pathway - Kailiang Qiao; Yantao Liu; Zheng Xu; Haohao Zhang; Heng Zhang; Chao Zhang; Zhi Chang; Xinyan Lu; Zhongwei Li; Ce Luo; Yanrong Liu; Cheng Yang; et al. (Angiogenesis, 2021)

Two new physalin derivatives from Physalis alkekengi L. var. franchetii (Mast.) Makino - Jian-Lu Sun; Yong-Jun Jiang; Lin Cheng (Natural Product Research, 2021)

MiR396 regulatory network and its expression during grain development in wheat - Yi Yu; Fangyao Sun; Ning Chen; Genlou Sun; Cheng-Yu Wang; De-Xiang Wu (Protoplasma, 2021)

Hepatoprotective effect and possible mechanism of phytoestrogen calycosin on carbon tetrachloride–induced liver fibrosis in mice - Mengmeng Zhang; Yaxin Wang; Guannan Zhu; Cheng Sun; Jiajia Wang (Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology, 2021)

Allicin can suppress the activity of vascular endothelial cells probably by regulating JAK2/STAT3 pathway - Hui-Hui Sun; Xin-Min Feng; Jing-Cheng Wang; Jun Cai (Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, 2021)

MST1 modulates Th17 activation in psoriasis via regulating TLR4-NF-κB pathway - Huayang Tang; Ze Guo; Xianfa Tang; Jinping Gao; Wenjun Wang; He Huang; Xiaodong Zheng; Hui Cheng; Yujun Sheng; Liangdan Sun (Human Cell, 2021)

The short-term effect of PM2.5/O3 on daily mortality from 2013 to 2018 in Hefei, China - Xinmiao Sui; Junqing Zhang; Qi Zhang; Shu Sun; Ruoqian Lei; Chao Zhang; Han Cheng; Liu Ding; Rui Ding; Changchun Xiao; Xiaoru Li; Jiyu Cao (Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 2021)

On the connection between AMOC and observed land precipitation in Northern Hemisphere: a comparison of the AMOC indicators - Jing Zhang; Yusen Liu; Cheng Sun; Jianping Li; Ruiqiang Ding; Fei Xie; Tiejun Xie; Yazhou Zhang; Zhanqiu Gong (Climate Dynamics, 2021)

A new self-starting drainage method for slope stabilization and its application - Hong-yue Sun; Qi Ge; Yang Yu; Fei-xiang Shuai; Cheng-cheng Lü (Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, 2021)

Mechanism of TonB-dependent transport system in Halomonas alkalicola CICC 11012s in response to alkaline stress - Lei Zhai; Jiuyan Xie; Huijun Feng; Sijia Sun; Kun Cheng; Su Yao (Extremophiles, 2021)

Improving the observation and prediction capabilities for Arctic marine environment: from the perspective of Arctic Shipping - Hui Wang; Qizhen Sun; Lin Zhang; Xi Liang; Qinghua Yang; Na Liu; Chunhua Li; Qingsheng Liu; Bingrui Li; Qian Feng; Xiao Cheng; Yi Yu (Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2021)

Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation reconstructions and instrumentally observed multidecadal climate variability: A comparison of indicators - Cheng Sun; Jing Zhang; Xiang Li; Chunming Shi; Zhanqiu Gong; Ruiqiang Ding; Fei Xie; Panxing Lou (International Journal of Climatology, 2021)
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) has an important role in the Earth's climate system, but it remains unclear how the instrumentally observed multidecadal variability of the Earth's climate is related to the AMOC. We carried out a comprehensive evaluation of five representative indicators of the AMOC, including one atmospheric index based on the effect of accumulated atmospheric forcing on the AMOC and four oceanographic indices using surface and subsurface oceanographic variables in the North Atlantic Ocean. We compared reconstructions of the AMOC against measurement records and analysed the relationships with the multidecadal variability of the annual mean surface air temperature anomalies over the North Atlantic, Northern Hemisphere and South Atlantic. All the AMOC indicators show a weakening trend during the most recent decade, which is in good agreement with the RAPID measurement record of the AMOC. Besides, the atmospheric reconstruction shows the best agreement with the observed low‐frequency variation in the AMOC since 2004. The multidecadal variability in hemispheric/regional surface temperatures is closely related to all the AMOC reconstructions and opposite relationships are observed between the North Atlantic and South Atlantic oceans. The multidecadal surface air temperature anomalies associated with the variations in the AMOC are most pronounced for the atmospheric reconstruction index, which leads the variations in the surface air temperature by 4–5 years. Among the oceanographic indicators, the reconstructions using subsurface oceanographic variables performed best in terms of the relationship with the variations in the multidecadal surface air temperature.

Two new lignans from Zanthoxylum armatum - Yan Sun; Qing-Hong Zeng; Hui-Qiang Lu; Fan-Cheng Meng; Yong Shen; Wei-You Zeng; Hao Chi; Yu-Qiang Zhou; Min Chen (Natural Product Research, 2020)

Antidumping Duty Investigations and Decisions in the Global Forest Products Industry - Xufang Zhang; Changyou Sun; Jason Gordon; Cheng Li; Ian A Munn (Forest Science, 2020)
Special tariffs have been increasingly adopted to protect domestic industries from potential injury caused by unfair international trade. In this study, a multinomial logit model is employed to examine the patterns and determinants of antidumping duty investigations in the global forest products industry. From 1995 to 2015, a total of 372 relevant cases are identified. The number of firms and the inclusion of unions as a petitioner generally improve the probability of an affirmative decision. The characteristics of petition countries have shown more impacts on the decisions than those of target countries. Developing countries have initiated a larger number of antidumping duty investigations in the global forest products industry, and furthermore, they are more inclined to adopt antidumping duties than developed countries. Countries with abundant forest resources and more forest products trade are more likely to make an affirmative decision. These findings will provide helpful information to industrial firms and government agencies in dealing with the challenges of global competition. Study Implications The findings reveal that getting more stakeholders involved in an antidumping duty investigation will increase the probability of trade intervention. The economic status in petition countries is the primary determinant of the decisions from antidumping duty investigations in the global forest products industry. Developing countries not only have initiated a large number of antidumping duty investigations in the forest products industry but also have been more inclined to adopt antidumping duties. Antidumping duty investigations offer an opportunity to countries with abundant forest resources and extensive forest products trade in case of unfair international competition.

Which is more Important, Ecological Conservation or Recreational Service? Evidence from a Choice Experiment in Wetland Nature Reserve Management - Lishan Xu; Changlin Ao; Biqi Mao; Yang Cheng; Baosheng Sun; Jingxia Wang; Baoqi Liu; Jianhua Ma (Wetlands, 2020)

Soil Organic Matter Dynamics as Affected by Land Use Change from Rice Paddy to Wetland - Xian Wu; Toan Nguyen-Sy; Zheng Sun; Toru Wantanabe; Keitaro Tawaraya; Ronggui Hu; Weiguo Cheng (Wetlands, 2020)

Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Candidemia Caused by Meyerozyma guilliermondii Complex in Cancer Patients Undergoing Surgery - Jingjing Chen; Sufei Tian; Fushun Li; Guoquan Sun; Ke Yun; Shitong Cheng; Yunzhuo Chu (Mycopathologia, 2020)

Melatonin ameliorates spatial memory and motor deficits via preserving the integrity of cortical and hippocampal dendritic spine morphology in mice with neurotrauma - Xiao-Jing Lin; Ruoxu Liu; Chenyi Li; Xueqing Yi; Bo Fu; M. J. Walker; Xiao-Ming Xu; Gang Sun; Cheng-Hsien Lin (Inflammopharmacology, 2020)

Geographical origin differentiation of Chinese Angelica by specific metal element fingerprinting and risk assessment - Lei Sun; Xiao Ma; Hong-Yu Jin; Chang-jun Fan; Xiao-dong Li; Tian-Tian Zuo; Shuang-Cheng Ma; Sicen Wang (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020)

Sulfide ore prospecting in carbon-containing stratum using comprehensive time-domain induced polarization and controlled-source audio-frequency magnetotellurics - Ren-Bin Sun; Li-Xia Chu; Gui-Bin Zhang; Qiu-Ming Cheng; Yun-Chuan Xiang; Bin Hu; Chang-Rong Zhang; Jian-Fu Li; Yi-Jun Zhao (Applied Geophysics, 2020)

An A 1 -type granite that borders A 2 -type: insights from the geochemical characteristics of the Zongyang A-type granite in the Lower Yangtze River Belt, China - Xiao-Yan Jiang; Kai Wu; Jin-Cheng Luo; Li-Peng Zhang; Wei Dong Sun; Xiao-Ping Xia (International Geology Review, 2020)

Physiological and transcriptional response to heat stress in heat-resistant and heat-sensitive maize (Zea mays L.) inbred lines at seedling stage - De-Chuan Wu; Jia-Fei Zhu; Zhong-Ze Shu; Wei Wang; Cheng Yan; Shan-Bin Xu; De-Xiang Wu; Cheng-Yu Wang; Zhao-rong Dong; Genlou Sun (Protoplasma, 2020)

Enhancing Salix viminalis L.–mediated phytoremediation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon–contaminated soil by inoculation with Crucibulum laeve (white-rot fungus) - Xiaodong Ma; Xia Li; Junxiang Liu; Yunhe Cheng; Feifei Zhai; Zhenyuan Sun; Lei Han (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020)

Snapshot of Peptidomics of the Red Tide Forming Species Noctiluca scintillans - Shuwen Zhang; Cheng Li; Shunyan Cheung; Mingming Sun; Shuqun Song; Wang Guo; Cui Guo; Gongguo Wu; Hongbin Liu (Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020)

Distinct lung microbial community states in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis - Yongfeng Hu; Ying Kang; Xi Liu; Min Cheng; Jie Dong; Lilian Sun; Yafang Zhu; Xianwen Ren; Qianting Yang; Xinchun Chen; Qi Jin; Fan Yang (Science China Life Sciences, 2020)

Expression patterns and functional divergence of homologous genes accompanied by polyploidization in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) - Zhen Peng; Hua Cheng; Gaofei Sun; Zhaoe Pan; Xiao Wang; Xiaoli Geng; Shoupu He; Xiongming Du (Science China Life Sciences, 2020)

Thermal maturation as revealed by micro-Raman spectroscopy of mineral-organic aggregation (MOA) in marine shales with high and over maturities - Xianming Xiao; Qin Zhou; Peng Cheng; Jian Sun; Dehan Liu; Hui Tian (Science China Earth Sciences, 2020)

Chronic minocycline treatment exerts antidepressant effect, inhibits neuroinflammation, and modulates gut microbiota in mice - Qi Yang; Li Luo; Ting Sun; Le Yang; Li-Fei Cheng; Yan Wang; Qing-Qing Liu; An Liu; Hai-Yan Liu; Ming-Gao Zhao; Sheng-Xi Wu; Bin Feng (Psychopharmacology, 2020)

Inclination effect of coal mine strata on the stability of loess land slope under the condition of underground mining - Xue-yang Sun; Chun-Hsing Ho; Cheng Li; Yucheng Xia; Qi Zhang (Natural Hazards, 2020)

Overexpression of PREX1 in oral squamous cell carcinoma indicates poor prognosis - Shu-Cheng Wan; Hao Wu; Hao Li; Wei-Wei Deng; Yao Xiao; Cong-Cong Wu; Lei-Lei Yang; Wen-Feng Zhang; Zhi-Jun Sun (Journal of Molecular Histology, 2020)

Heavy metal control in microalgae cultivation with power plant flue gas entering into raceway pond - Jing Sun; Jun Cheng; Zongbo Yang; Junhu Zhou (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020)

A robust relationship between multidecadal global warming rate variations and the Atlantic Multidecadal Variability - Zhiyu Li; Wenjun Zhang; Fei-Fei Jin; Malte F. Stuecker; Cheng Sun; Aaron F. Z. Levine; Haiming Xu; Chao Liu (Climate Dynamics, 2020)

Climate Variability Patterns and Their Ecological Effects on Ecosystems in the Northwestern North Pacific - Shuyang Ma; Yongjun Tian; Jianchao Li; Haiqing Yu; Jiahua Cheng; Peng Sun; Caihong Fu; Yang Liu; Yoshiro Watanabe (Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020)

Chemical, physical and physiological quality attributes of fruit and vegetables induced by cold plasma treatment: Mechanisms and application advances - Ya-Qi Chen; Jun-Hu Cheng; Da-Wen Sun (Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, 2020)

Up-conversion Persistent Luminescence of a 980 nm Laser Activated Zn3Ga2(GexSn1−x)O8:Yb,Er,Cr Phosphors - Yuan Cheng; Kangning Sun (Journal of Fluorescence, 2020)

Evolution of Neolithic site distribution (9.0–4.0 ka BP) in Anhui, East China - Li Wu; Xiaoling Sun; Wei Sun; Cheng Zhu; Tongxin Zhu; Shuguang Lu; Hui Zhou; Qingchun Guo; Houchun Guan; Wei Xie; Rui Ke; Guiping Lin (Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2020)

Genesis of the Linghu Au deposit in Xiaoqinling Region, Henan province, China: Constraints from fluid inclusions and isotope systematics - Wei Zeng; Zhi-gao Wang; Duo Wan; Feng-yue Sun; Cheng-dong Li; Reng-an Yu; Jia-ying Wang; Jian-chang Xu (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2020)

Selective mGluR1 Negative Allosteric Modulator Reduces Blood–Brain Barrier Permeability and Cerebral Edema After Experimental Subarachnoid Hemorrhage - Cheng Zhang; Ming Jiang; Wei-qi Wang; Shi-jun Zhao; Yan-xin Yin; Qiong-jie Mi; Ming-feng Yang; Yu-qiang Song; Bao-liang Sun; Zong-yong Zhang (Translational Stroke Research, 2020)

Sulfamethoxazole affects the microbial composition and antibiotic resistance gene abundance in soil and accumulates in lettuce - Shoutao Cheng; Mingming Shi; Lijun Xing; Xuming Wang; Haoze Gao; Yanmei Sun (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020)

Mixture of Pb, Zn and Cu on root permeability and radial oxygen loss in the mangrove Bruguiera gymnorrhiza - Hao Cheng; You-Shao Wang; Chang-Da Li; Zhi-Hong Ye; Shafi Muhammad; Mei-Lin Wu; Fun-Lin Sun (Ecotoxicology, 2020)

Dynamics of radial oxygen loss in mangroves subjected to waterlogging - Hao Cheng; Mei-Lin Wu; Chang-Da Li; Fu-Lin Sun; Cui-Ci Sun; You-Shao Wang (Ecotoxicology, 2020)

Distribution patterns and source identification for heavy metals in Mirs Bay of Hong Kong in China - Mei-Lin Wu; Hao Cheng; Hui Zhao; Fu-Lin Sun; Yu-Tu Wang; Jian-Ping Yin; Jiao Fei; Cui-Ci Sun; You-Shao Wang (Ecotoxicology, 2020)

Isolation and expression analysis of a CBF transcriptional factor gene from the mangrove Bruguiera gymnorrhiza - Ya-Lan Peng; You-Shao Wang; Jiao Fei; Hao Cheng; Cui-Ci Sun (Ecotoxicology, 2020)

Phytoplankton community, structure and succession delineated by partial least square regression in Daya Bay, South China Sea - Mei-Lin Wu; Yu-Tu Wang; Hao Cheng; Fu-lin Sun; Jiao Fei; Cui-Ci Sun; Jian-Ping Yin; Hui Zhao; You-Shao Wang (Ecotoxicology, 2020)

Model test of the combined subgrade treatment by hydraulic sand fills and soil-cement mixing piles - Yang Sun; Jiu Cheng; Yiwei Li; Qi Chen; Wei Zhang; Guojian Shao (Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, 2020)

Effects of dietary fish meal replacement with protein mixtures on growth performance, biochemical composition, and physiological metabolism of juvenile swimming crab, Portunus trituberculatus - Yunfei Sun; Shaicheng Zhu; Xiaowen Long; Xugan Wu; Yongxu Cheng (Aquaculture International, 2020)

Reconstruction of nearshore chemical conditions in the Mesoproterozoic: evidence from red and grey beds of the Yangzhuang formation, North China Craton - Yu Zou; Dongna Liu; Fenghua Zhao; Hongwei Kuang; Changgui Song; Yuxiang Sun; Rui Zhou; Jianbo Cheng (International Geology Review, 2020)

Effects of Nitrate Enrichment on Respiration, Photosynthesis, and Fatty Acid Composition of Reef Coral Pocillopora damicornis Larvae - Cheng-Yue Liu; Fang Zhang; You-Fang Sun; Xiao-Lei Yu; Hui Huang (Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020)

Role of Magnesium in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus - Jianan Feng; Heyuan Wang; Zhe Jing; Yue Wang; Yanli Cheng; Wanning Wang; Weixia Sun (Biological Trace Element Research, 2020)

Precise vehicle dynamic heading and pitch angle estimation using time-differenced measurements from a single GNSS antenna - Rui Sun; Qi Cheng; Junhui Wang (GPS Solutions, 2020)

Estimation of oil saturation via pseudo capillary pressure curve from nuclear magnetic resonance log data in tight conglomerate reservoirs - Yong Song; Cheng Feng; Zhenlin Wang; Zhongchun Sun (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2020)

Genetic architecture of leaf morphological and physiological traits in a Populus deltoides ‘Danhong’ × P. simonii ‘Tongliao1’ pedigree revealed by quantitative trait locus analysis - Pei Sun; Huixia Jia; Xingqi Cheng; Yahong Zhang; Jianbo Li; Lei Zhang; Mengzhu Lu; Jin Zhang; Jianjun Hu (Tree Genetics & Genomes, 2020)

Genetic dynamics of earlier maturity group emergence in south-to-north extension of Northeast China soybeans - Mengmeng Fu; Yanping Wang; Haixiang Ren; Weiguang Du; Deliang Wang; Rongjun Bao; Xingyong Yang; Zhongyan Tian; Lianshun Fu; Yanxi Cheng; Jiangshun Su; Bincheng Sun; et al. (Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2020)

Pleiotropic QTL influencing spikelet number and heading date in common wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) - Zhaoyan Chen; Xuejiao Cheng; Lingling Chai; Zihao Wang; Dejie Du; Zhihui Wang; Ruolin Bian; Aiju Zhao; Mingming Xin; Weilong Guo; Zhaorong Hu; Huiru Peng; et al. (Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2020)

Mixed secondary chromatin structure revealed by modeling radiation-induced DNA fragment length distribution - Wenzong Ma; Chenyang Gu; Lin Ma; Caoqi Fan; Chao Zhang; Yujie Sun; Cheng Li; Gen Yang (Science China Life Sciences, 2020)

Architectural proteins for the formation and maintenance of the 3D genome - Mengfan Li; Jingbo Gan; Yuao Sun; Zihan Xu; Junsheng Yang; Yujie Sun; Cheng Li (Science China Life Sciences, 2020)

Analysis of Spatial–Temporal Evolution of Mining-Induced Fracture Field: A Case Study Using Image Processing in the Shaqu Coal Mine, China - Zhiheng Cheng; Biao Liu; Quanle Zou; Xin Wang; Jicheng Feng; Zhiyan Zhao; Fulong Sun (Natural Resources Research, 2020)

Inhibition of glycolysis ameliorate arthritis in adjuvant arthritis rats by inhibiting synoviocyte activation through AMPK/NF-кB pathway - Ying Wang; Hao Xian; Jiajia Qi; Fang Wei; Xiu Cheng; Sha Li; Qing Wang; Zhaoyang Liu; Yun Yu; Jing Zhou; Xiaojin Sun; Hao Liu; et al. (Inflammation Research, 2020)

Innovative health risk assessments of heavy metals based on bioaccessibility due to the consumption of traditional animal medicines - Tian-Tian Zuo; Hao-Ran Qu; Hong-Yu Jin; Lei Zhang; Fei-Ya Luo; Kun-Zi Yu; Fei Gao; Qi Wang; Lei Sun; Huai-Zhen He; Shuang-Cheng Ma (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020)

A special symptom of olfactory dysfunction in coronavirus disease 2019: report of three cases - Chen Chen; Moxian Chen; Cong Cheng; Yun Chi; Zhiliang Hu; Yuan Liu; Shan Huang; Yanling Lv; Chongfeng Liang; Damin Jiao; Yongxiang Yi; Xia Zhang; et al. (Journal of NeuroVirology, 2020)

Molecular Survey and Genetic Diversity of Babesia spp. and Theileria spp. in Cattle in Gansu Province, China - Ming Sun; Guiquan Guan; Zhijie Liu; Jinming Wang; Duoquan Wang; Shufang Wang; Chao Ma; Shengzhong Cheng; Hong Yin; Jianxun Luo (Acta Parasitologica, 2020)

Plastic pollution in croplands threatens long‐term food security - Dan Zhang; Ee Ling Ng; Wanli Hu; Hongyuan Wang; Pablo Galaviz; Hude Yang; Wentao Sun; Chongxiao Li; Xingwang Ma; Bin Fu; Peiyi Zhao; Fulin Zhang; et al. (Global Change Biology, 2020)
Plastic pollution is a global concern given its prevalence in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Studies have been conducted on the distribution and impact of plastic pollution in marine ecosystems, but little is known on terrestrial ecosystems. Plastic mulch has been widely used to increase crop yields worldwide, yet the impact of plastic residues in cropland soils to soil health and crop production in the long term remained unclear. In this paper, using a global meta‐analysis, we found that the use of plastic mulch can indeed increase crop yields on average by 25%–42% in the immediate season due to the increase of soil temperature (+8%) and moisture (+17%). However, the unabated accumulation of film residues in the field negatively impacts its physicochemical properties linked to healthy soil and threatens food production in the long term. It has multiple negative impacts on plant growth including crop yield (at the mean rate of −3% for every additional 100 kg/ha of film residue), plant height (−2%) and root weight (−5%), and soil properties including soil water evaporation capacity (−2%), soil water infiltration rate (−8%), soil organic matter (−0.8%) and soil available phosphorus (−5%) based on meta‐regression. Using a nationwide field survey of China, the largest user of plastic mulch worldwide, we found that plastic residue accumulation in cropland soils has reached 550,800 tonnes, with an estimated 6%–10% reduction in cotton yield in some polluted sites based on current level of plastic residue content. Immediate actions should be taken to ensure the recovery of plastic film mulch and limit further increase in film residue loading to maintain the sustainability of these croplands.

Time-resolved black carbon aerosol vertical distribution measurements using a 356-m meteorological tower in Shenzhen - Tianlin Sun; Cheng Wu; Dui Wu; Ben Liu; Jia Yin Sun; Xia Mao; Honglong Yang; Tao Deng; Lang Song; Mei Li; Yong Jie Li; Zhen Zhou (Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 2020)
Black carbon (BC) is an essential climate forcer in the atmosphere. Large uncertainties remain in BC’s radiative forcing estimation by models, partially due to the limited measurements of BC vertical distributions near the surface layer. We conducted time-resolved vertical profiling of BC using a 356-m meteorological tower in Shenzhen, China. Five micro-aethalometers were deployed at different heights (2, 50, 100, 200, and 350 m) to explore the temporal dynamics of BC vertical profile in the highly urbanized areas. During the observation period (December 6–15, 2017), the average equivalent BC (eBC) concentrations were 6.6 ± 3.6, 5.4 ± 3.3, 5.9 ± 2.8, 5.2 ± 1.8, and 4.9 ± 1.4 μg m −3 , from 2 to 350 m, respectively. eBC temporal variations at different heights were well correlated. eBC concentrations generally decreased with height. At all five heights, eBC diurnal variations exhibited a bimodal pattern, with peaks appearing at 09:00–10:00 and 19:00–21:00. The magnitudes of these diurnal peaks decreased with height, and the decrease was more pronounced for the evening peak. eBC episodes were largely initiated by low wind speeds, implying that wind speed played a key role in the observed eBC concentrations. eBC wind-rose analysis suggested that elevated eBC events at different heights originate from different directions, which suggested contributions from local primary emission plumes. Air masses from central China exhibited much higher eBC levels than the other three backward trajectory clusters found herein. The absorption Ångström exponent (AAE 375–880 ) showed clear diurnal variations at 350 m and increased slightly with height.

CmCYC2-like transcription factors may interact with each other or bind to the promoter to regulate floral symmetry development in Chrysanthemum morifolium - Cunquan Yuan; Di Huang; Yi Yang; Ming Sun; Tangren Cheng; Jia Wang; Huitang Pan; Qixiang Zhang (Plant Molecular Biology, 2020)

Complete mitogenomic and phylogenetic characteristics of the speckled wood-pigeon (Columba hodgsonii) - Hong-Yi Liu; Cheng-He Sun; Ying Zhu; Qing-Zheng Zhang (Molecular Biology Reports, 2020)

Biocontrol potential of Bacillus subtilis IBFCBF-4 against Fusarium wilt of watermelon - Jiuxiang Zhu; Taimeng Tan; Airong Shen; Xiebin Yang; Yongting Yu; Chunsheng Gao; Zhimin Li; Yi Cheng; Jia Chen; Litao Guo; Xiangping Sun; Zhun Yan; et al. (Journal of Plant Pathology, 2020)

First report of tobacco vein banding mosaic virus infecting Solanum lyratum Thunb in China - Jian Zhang; Yong-Yuan Cheng; Lei Yang; Xin Sun; Jing Yu; Quan-You Lu (Journal of Plant Pathology, 2020)

Complete mitochondrial genomes of two deep-sea pandalid shrimps, Heterocarpus ensifer and Bitias brevis: insights into the phylogenetic position of Pandalidae (Decapoda: Caridea) - Shao’e Sun; Jiao Cheng; Song Sun; Zhongli Sha (Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2020)

The cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying norm-enforcement behaviors under social observation - Hui Ouyang; Fenfen Sun; Liping Che; Weidong Zhang; Xuemei Cheng; Li Zheng (Experimental Brain Research, 2020)

V3 protein encoded by mulberry crinkle leaf virus acts as a pathogenicity determinant in Nicotiana benthamiana - Quan-You Lu; Jing Yu; Yong-Yuan Cheng; Xin Sun; Lei Yang (European Journal of Plant Pathology, 2020)

Effects of modified nanoscale carbon black on plant growth, root cellular morphogenesis, and microbial community in cadmium-contaminated soil - Jiemin Cheng; Zihan Sun; Xinrui Li; Yaqin Yu (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020)

Comparison of two typical regeneration methods to the spent biological activated carbon in drinking water - Cheng Liu; Congcong Li; Yiwen Shan; Zhehao Sun; Wei Chen (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020)

Naturally Occurring Antibodies to Tau Exists in Human Blood and Are Not Changed in Alzheimer’s Disease - Zhong-Yuan Yu; Wei-Wei Li; Hai-Mei Yang; Noralyn B. Mañucat-Tan; Jun Wang; Ye-Ran Wang; Bin-Lu Sun; Zi-Cheng Hu; Li-Li Zhang; Liang Tan; Juan Deng; Yu-Hui Liu (Neurotoxicity Research, 2020)

Temporal variations in riverine hydrochemistry and estimation of the carbon sink produced by coupled carbonate weathering with aquatic photosynthesis on land: an example from the Xijiang River, a large subtropical karst-dominated river in China - Rui Yang; Hailong Sun; Bo Chen; Mingxing Yang; Qingrui Zeng; Cheng Zeng; Jie Huang; Huixian Luo; Danhui Lin (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020)

Impacts of elevated temperature and pCO2 on the brooded larvae of Pocillopora damicornis from Luhuitou Reef, China: evidence for local acclimatization - Lei Jiang; Ming-Lan Guo; Fang Zhang; Yu-Yang Zhang; Guo-Wei Zhou; Xin-Ming Lei; Xiang-Cheng Yuan; You-Fang Sun; Tao Yuan; Lin Cai; Jian-Sheng Lian; Sheng Liu; et al. (Coral Reefs, 2020)

Researches on the Internal Molecular Weight Uniformity of Chitosan Biomaterials - Xuqian Lang; Yang Li; Guohui Sun; Zhongzheng Zhou; Jing Li; Chao Feng; Ming Kong; Ya Liu; Xiaojie Cheng; Xiguang Chen (Journal of Ocean University of China, 2020)

Phenotypic, genetic, and molecular function of msc-2, a genic male sterile mutant in pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) - Qing Cheng; Ting Li; Yixin Ai; Qiaohua Lu; Yihao Wang; Lang Wu; Jinqiu Liu; Liang Sun; Huolin Shen (Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2020)

Atorvastatin ameliorates depressive behaviors and neuroinflammatory in streptozotocin-induced diabetic mice - Zhang Hai-Na; Yu Xu-Ben; Tang Cong-Rong; Cao Yan-Cheng; Yang Fan; Xu Lei-Mei; Sun Ruo-Lan; Ye-Zi; Wang Ye-Xuan; Liang Jing (Psychopharmacology, 2020)

Effects of Dietary Supplementation of Recombinant Plectasin on Growth Performance, Intestinal Health and Innate Immunity Response in Broilers - Jing Lin Ma; Li Hua Zhao; Dan Dan Sun; Jing Zhang; Yong Peng Guo; Zhi Qiang Zhang; Qiu Gang Ma; Cheng Ji; Li Hong Zhao (Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins, 2020)

FGF21 Protects Dopaminergic Neurons in Parkinson’s Disease Models Via Repression of Neuroinflammation - Xingxing Fang; Jinyu Ma; Dengcai Mu; Bing Li; Bolin Lian; Cheng Sun (Neurotoxicity Research, 2020)

The linkage between methane production activity and prokaryotic community structure in the soil within a shale gas field in China - Yan-Qin Wang; Guang-Quan Xiao; Yong-Yi Cheng; Ming-Xia Wang; Bo-Ya Sun; Zhi-Feng Zhou (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020)

Western Pacific Ocean influences on monsoon precipitation in the southwestern Chinese Loess Plateau since the mid-Holocene - Can Zhang; Cheng Zhao; Zicheng Yu; Haixia Zhang; Aifeng Zhou; Xiaojian Zhang; Xiaoping Feng; Xiaoshuang Sun; Ji Shen (Climate Dynamics, 2020)

Effects of telomere length on leukemogenesis - Shihui Ma; Guohuan Sun; Shangda Yang; Zhenyu Ju; Tao Cheng; Hui Cheng (Science China Life Sciences, 2020)

MicroRNA-mediated responses to colchicine treatment in barley - Fang-Yao Sun; Lin Liu; Yi Yu; Xin-Ming Ruan; Cheng-Yu Wang; Qun-Wen Hu; De-Xiang Wu; Genlou Sun (Planta, 2020)

Spinal P2X7R contributes to streptozotocin-induced mechanical allodynia in mice - Cheng-ming Ni; He-ping Sun; Xiang Xu; Bing-yu Ling; Hui Jin; Yu-qiu Zhang; Zhi-qi Zhao; Hong Cao; Lan Xu (Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE B, 2020)

CX3CR1 contributes to streptozotocin-induced mechanical allodynia in the mouse spinal cord - Cheng-ming Ni; Bing-yu Ling; Xiang Xu; He-ping Sun; Hui Jin; Yu-qiu Zhang; Hong Cao; Lan Xu (Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE B, 2020)

Exploration of targets regulated by miR-125b in porcine adipocytes - Xiao Cheng; Xingping Chen; Peng Wang; Ting Chen; Jiajie Sun; Qianyun Xi; Yongliang Zhang (In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology - Animal, 2020)

Proton pump inhibitors use and dementia risk: a meta-analysis of cohort studies - Yun Zhang; Mingming Liang; Chenyu Sun; Evelyn J. Song; Ce Cheng; Tingting Shi; Min Min; Yehuan Sun (European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 2020)

Contribution of SST change to multidecadal global and continental surface air temperature trends between 1910 and 2013 - Yidan Xu; Jianping Li; Cheng Sun; Xiaopei Lin; Hailong Liu; Lanning Wang; Yishuang Liang; Qiuyun Wang; Yazhou Zhang; Zhaolu Hou; Fuchang Wang (Climate Dynamics, 2020)
The global mean surface air temperature (GMST) shows multidecadal variability over the period of 1910–2013, with an increasing trend. This study quantifies the contribution of hemispheric surface air temperature (SAT) variations and individual ocean sea surface temperature (SST) changes to the GMST multidecadal variability for 1910–2013. At the hemispheric scale, both the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) observations and the Community Earth System Model (CESM) Community Atmosphere Model 5.3 (CAM5.3) simulation indicate that the Northern Hemisphere (NH) favors the GMST multidecadal trend during periods of accelerated warming (1910–1945, 1975–1998) and cooling (1940–1975, 2001–2013), whereas the Southern Hemisphere (SH) slows the intensity of both warming and cooling processes. The contribution of the NH SAT variation to the GMST multidecadal trend is higher than that of the SH. We conduct six experiments with different ocean SST forcing, and find that all the oceans make positive contributions to the GMST multidecadal trend during rapid warming periods. However, only the Indian, North Atlantic, and western Pacific oceans make positive contributions to the GMST multidecadal trend between 1940 and 1975, whereas only the tropical Pacific and the North Pacific SSTs contribute to the GMST multidecadal trend between 2001 and 2013. The North Atlantic and western Pacific oceans have important impacts on modulating the GMST multidecadal trend across the entire 20th century. Each ocean makes different contributions to the SAT multidecadal trend of different continents during different periods.

Conodont Biostratigraphy and Age of the Early Triassic Fish-Bearing-Nodule Levels from Nanjing and Jurong, Jiangsu Province, South China - Shuang Liu; Zuoyu Sun; Cheng Ji; Min Zhou; Dayong Jiang (Journal of Earth Science, 2020)

Molecular cloning and characterization of a gene encoding soluble starch synthase III (SSSIII) in Lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) - FengLin Zhu; Neng Cheng; Han Sun; Ying Diao; Zhongli Hu (Biologia, 2020)

Effect of miR-27b-5p on apoptosis of human vascular endothelial cells induced by simulated microgravity - Yi-Kai Pan; Cheng-Fei Li; Yuan Gao; Yong-Chun Wang; Xi-Qing Sun (Apoptosis, 2020)
Weightlessness-induced cardiovascular dysfunction can lead to physiological and pathological consequences. It has been shown that spaceflight or simulated microgravity can alter expression profiles of some microRNAs (miRNAs). Here, we attempt to identify the role of miRNAs in human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) apoptosis under simulated microgravity. RNA-sequencing and quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR) assays were used to identify differentially expressed miRNAs in HUVECs under simulated microgravity. Then we obtained the target genes of these miRNAs through target analysis software. Moreover, GO and KEGG enrichment analysis were performed. The effects of these miRNAs on HUVECs apoptosis were evaluated by flow cytometry, Western blot and Hoechst staining. Furthermore, we obtained the target gene of miR-27b-5p by luciferase assay, qRT-PCR and Western blot. Finally, we investigated the relationship between this target gene and miR-27b-5p in HUVECs apoptosis under normal gravity or simulated microgravity. We found 29 differentially expressed miRNAs in HUVECs under simulated microgravity. Of them, the expressions of 3 miRNAs were validated by qRT-PCR. We demonstrated that miR-27b-5p affected HUVECs apoptosis by inhibiting zinc fingers and homeoboxes 1 (ZHX1). Our results reported here demonstrate for the first time that simulated microgravity can alter the expression of some miRNAs in HUVECs and miR-27b-5p may protect HUVECs from apoptosis under simulated microgravity by targeting ZHX1.

v301, a new allele of BRITTLE CULM 12, and its regulation of the early senescence of the leaf blade in rice - Ji-le Ni; Xiao-zhu Wen; Cheng-bing Tang; Wei-jiang Tian; Wen-jing Yang; Jia Xie; Xiao-bo Zhang; Yang-yang Li; Yu-zhen Xiong; Ying Sun; Zhu Zhu; Ying Wang; et al. (Acta Physiologiae Plantarum, 2020)

Baeckeins L and M, two novel C -methylated triflavonoids from the roots of Baeckea frutescens L. - Cheng-Jun Jia; Xiao-Min Sun; Xiang-Yun Zhang; Zi-Jiao Wei; Bei-Xi Jia (Natural Product Research, 2020)

A new aryldihydronaphthalene-type lignan and other metabolites with potential anti-​inflammatory activities from Corispermum mongolicum Iljin - Yi Zhou; Mei Jin; Chunshi Jin; Chao Ye; Jiaming Wang; Jinfeng Sun; Cheng-Xi Wei; Wei Zhou; Gao Li (Natural Product Research, 2020)

Dissection of genetic factors underlying grain size and fine mapping of QTgw.cau-7D in common wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) - Zhaoyan Chen; Xuejiao Cheng; Lingling Chai; Zhihui Wang; Ruolin Bian; Jiang Li; Aiju Zhao; Mingming Xin; Weilong Guo; Zhaorong Hu; Huiru Peng; Yingyin Yao; et al. (Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2020)

Tumor Microenvironment Stimuli-Responsive Polymeric Prodrug Micelles for Improved Cancer Therapy - Zhiqiang Zhang; Miao Yu; Tong An; Jun Yang; Meijuan Zou; Yinglei Zhai; Wei Sun; Gang Cheng (Pharmaceutical Research, 2020)

Crocin attenuates isoprenaline-induced myocardial fibrosis by targeting TLR4/NF-κB signaling: connecting oxidative stress, inflammation, and apoptosis - Weiyue Jin; Yuanyuan Zhang; Yurun Xue; Xue Han; Xuan Zhang; Zhihong Ma; Shijiang Sun; Xi Chu; Jie Cheng; Shengjiang Guan; Ziliang Li; Li Chu (Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology, 2020)

The root endophytic fungus Serendipita indica improves resistance of Banana to Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense tropical race 4 - Chunzhen Cheng; Dan Li; Quan Qi; Xueli Sun; Mensah Raphael Anue; Bodjrenou Mahoudjro David; Yongyan Zhang; Xiangyang Hao; Zihao Zhang; Zhongxiong Lai (European Journal of Plant Pathology, 2020)