Patterns and drivers of global gross nitrogen mineralization in soils - Ahmed S. Elrys; Ahmad Ali; Huimin Zhang; Yi Cheng; Jinbo Zhang; Zu‐Cong Cai; Christoph Müller; Scott X. Chang (Global Change Biology, 2021)
Soil gross nitrogen (N) mineralization (GNM), a key microbial process in the global N cycle, is mainly controlled by climate and soil properties. This study provides for the first time a comprehensive analysis of the role of soil physicochemical properties and climate and their interactions with soil microbial biomass (MB) in controlling GNM globally. Through a meta‐analysis of 970 observations from 337 published papers from various ecosystems, we found that GNM was positively correlated with MB, total carbon, total N and precipitation, and negatively correlated with bulk density (BD) and soil pH. Our multivariate analysis and structural equation modeling revealed that GNM is driven by MB and dominantly influenced by BD and precipitation. The higher total N accelerates GNM via increasing MB. The decrease in BD stimulates GNM via increasing total N and MB, whereas higher precipitation stimulates GNM via increasing total N. Moreover, the GNM varies with ecosystem type, being greater in forests and grasslands with high total carbon and MB contents and low BD and pH compared to croplands. The highest GNM was observed in tropical wet soils that receive high precipitation, which increases the supply of soil substrate (total N) to microbes. Our findings suggest that anthropogenic activities that affect soil microbial population size, BD, soil substrate availability, or soil pH may interact with changes in precipitation regime and land use to influence GNM, which may ultimately affect ecosystem productivity and N loss to the environment.

Structural diversity of symbionts and related cellular mechanisms underlying vertical symbiont transmission in cicadas - Dandan Wang; Zhi Huang; Johan Billen; Guoyun Zhang; Hong He; Cong Wei (Environmental Microbiology, 2021)
Summary Many insects depend on symbiont(s) for survival. This is particularly the case for sap‐feeding hemipteran insects. In this study, we revealed that symbionts harboured in cicadas are diverse and complex, and the yeast‐like fungal symbionts (YLS) are present in most cicada species, but Hodgkinia is absent. During vertical transmission, Sulcia became swollen with the outer membrane drastically changed, while Hodgkinia became shrunken and changed from irregular to roughly spherical. Sulcia and/or Hodgkinia were exocytosed from the bacteriocytes to the intercellular space of bacteriomes, where they gathered together and were extruded to haemolymph. YLS and associated facultative symbiont(s) in the fat bodies were released to the haemolymph based on bacteriocyte disintegration. The obligate symbiont(s) were endocytosed and exocytosed successively by the epithelial plug cells of the terminal oocyte, while associated facultative symbiont(s), and possibly also YLS, may take a ‘free ride’ on the transmission of obligate symbiont(s) to gain entry into the oocyte. Then, the intermixed symbionts formed a characteristic ‘symbiont ball’ in the oocyte. Our results suggest that YLS in cicadas represent a new example of a relatively early stage of symbiogenesis in insects and contribute to a better understanding of the diversity and transmission mechanisms of symbionts in insects.

An atlas of bacterial secondary metabolite biosynthesis gene clusters - Bin Wei; Ao‐Qi Du; Zhen‐Yi Zhou; Cong Lai; Wen‐Chao Yu; Jin‐Biao Yu; Yan‐Lei Yu; Jian‐Wei Chen; Hua‐Wei Zhang; Xue‐Wei Xu; Hong Wang (Environmental Microbiology, 2021)
Summary Bacterial secondary metabolites are rich sources of novel drug leads. The diversity of secondary metabolite biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) in genome‐sequenced bacteria, which will provide crucial information for the efficient discovery of novel natural products, has not been systematically investigated. Here, the distribution and genetic diversity of BGCs in 10 121 prokaryotic genomes (across 68 phyla) were obtained from their PRISM4 outputs using a custom python script. A total of 18 043 BGCs are detected from 5743 genomes with non‐ribosomal peptide synthetases (25.4%) and polyketides (15.9%) as the dominant classes of BGCs. Bacterial strains harbouring the largest number of BGCs are revealed and BGC count in strains of some genera vary greatly, suggesting the necessity of individually evaluating the secondary metabolism potential. Additional analysis against 102 strains of discovered bacterial genera with abundant amounts of BGCs confirms that Kutzneria , Kibdelosporangium , Moorea , Saccharothrix , Cystobacter , Archangium , Actinosynnema , Kitasatospora , and Nocardia , may also be important sources of natural products and worthy of priority investigation. Comparative analysis of BGCs within these genera indicates the great diversity and novelty of the BGCs. This study presents an atlas of bacterial secondary metabolite BGCs that provides a lot of key information for the targeted discovery of novel natural products.

Multiobjective Optimization of the Performance and Emissions of a Large Low-Speed Dual-Fuel Marine Engine Based on MNLR-MOPSO - Yujin Cong; Huibing Gan; Huaiyu Wang; Guotong Hu; Yi Liu (Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2021)
With increasingly strict emission regulations and growing environmental concerns, it is urgent to improve engine performance and reduce emissions. In this paper, multivariate nonlinear regression (MNLR) combined with multiobjective particle swarm optimization (MOPSO) was implemented to optimize the performance and emissions of a large low-speed two-stroke dual-fuel marine engine. First, a simulation model of a dual-fuel engine was established using AVL-BOOST software. Next, a single-factor scanning value method was applied to control a range of variables, including intake pressure, intake temperature, and natural gas mass fraction. Then, a nonlinear regression model was established using the statistical multivariate nonlinear regression equation. Finally, the multiobjective optimization algorithm implementing MOPSO was used to solve the trade-off between performance and emissions. It was found that when the intake pressure was 3.607 bar, the intake temperature was 297.15 K and the natural gas mass fraction was 0.962. The engine power increased by 0.34%, the brake specific fuel consumption (BSFC) reduced by 0.21%, and the NOx emissions reduced by 39.56%. The results show that the combination of multiple nonlinear regression and intelligent optimization algorithm is an effective method to optimize engine parameter settings.

Bamboo Fences as a Nature-Based Measure for Coastal Wetland Protection in Vietnam - Cong Mai Van; Anh Ngo; Tri Mai; H. T. Dao (Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021)
Climate change has induced sea-level rise and a high intensity of storms, which create high nearshore waves. These caused severe mangrove degradation and erosion along the coastal wetland areas in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam. Mangroves in the coastal wetland foreshore can withstand only some certain design storm waves and grow under several certain submerged conditions. Therefore, reducing waves and shallowing wetland elevation for recovering mangroves and protecting them in an early birth state is important. Bamboo or melaleuca fences have been used as a nature-based solution to reduce waves and currents approaching the shore for these above purposes along Vietnamese Mekong deltaic coasts. This paper investigates wave transmission through the bamboo fence system and assesses its effectiveness in protecting the mangroves. Waves were simultaneously measured at two locations for comparison: in front of and behind the fences. The result shows that the wave reduction by the fences is considerable, and sedimentation occurs rapidly in the shelter areas behind the fences, which is highly favorable for the recovery and growth of mangroves. Next, the empirical formulae have been proposed for relationships between the wave transmission coefficient of the fence and the dimensionless wave-structures parameters, such as the relative water depth, the wave steepness, and the fence freeboard. The findings create a basic technical reference for designing a naturally friendly-based solution by using bamboo and/or wooden fences in coastal protection generally and protecting mangroves specifically. The outcome of the research contributes to narrowing an existing gap in Vietnamese design guidelines for coastal wetland protection and also facilitates the use of locally available eco-friendly materials for coastal management along the Vietnamese Mekong delta coasts.

Integrated Application of Transcriptomics and Metabolomics Reveals the Energy Allocation-Mediated Mechanisms of Growth-Defense Trade-Offs in Crassostrea gigas and Crassostrea angulata - Chaogang Wang; Ao Li; Wei Wang; Rihao Cong; Luping Wang; Guofan Zhang; Li Li (Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021)
Understanding the genetic basis of trait variations and their coordination between relative species or populations distributing in different environmental conditions is important in evolutionary biology. In marine ectotherms, growth-defense trade-offs are a common ecological and evolutionary phenomenon. However, the biochemical and molecular mechanisms that govern these trade-offs in marine ectotherms in the evolutionary perspective remain poorly investigated. Oysters are among the most important species in global aquaculture. Crassostrea gigas ( C. gigas ) and Crassostrea angulata ( C. angulata ) are two allopatric congeneric dominant oyster species that inhabit the northern and southern intertidal areas of China. Wild C. gigas and C. angulata were spawned, and their F 1 progeny were cultured in the same sites to reduce the environmental effects. Untargeted metabolomics and transcriptomics, together with phenotypic parameters including morphological traits (growth performance), nutritional content (glycogen, crude fat, and fatty acid content), physiology (normalized oxygen consumption rate and total antioxidant capacity) were applied to assess metabolic and transcript divergences between C. gigas and C. angulata . Integrated analyses of metabolites and transcriptomes showed that C. gigas allocated more energy to storage and defense by suppressing glycolysis, fatty acid oxidation and by upregulating fatty acid synthesis, antioxidant gene expression, and related metabolites. The metabolic and transcript results were further confirmed by the phenotypic data that C. gigas has higher glycogen and crude fat content and fatty acid unsaturation and stronger antioxidant capacity than C. angulata . In contrast, C. angulata exhibited better growth performance and a higher oxygen consumption rate. These findings suggest that C. angulata allocates more energy to growth, which is embodied in its stronger aerobic capacity and higher levels of protein synthesis genes, metabolites, and growth-related biomarkers. This study will help to enlighten the evolutionary patterns and genetic basis of growth-defense trade-offs in marine ectotherms and the biochemical and molecular mechanisms underlying energy allocation. Also, the key genes and metabolites of glycogen and fatty acids pathway identified in this study will be applied for meat quality improvement in the oyster industry.

Pesticides and risk assessment in Shanghai fruit and raw eaten vegetables - Wen-Shuai Si; Shou-Ying Wang; Yao-Dan Zhang; Cong Kong; Bing Bai (Food Additives & Contaminants Part B-Surveillance, 2021)

GWAS and WGCNA uncover hub genes controlling salt tolerance in maize (Zea mays L.) seedlings - Langlang Ma; Minyan Zhang; Jie Chen; Chunyan Qing; Shijiang He; Chaoying Zou; Guangsheng Yuan; Cong Yang; Hua Peng; Guangtang Pan; Thomas Lübberstedt; Yaou Shen (Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2021)

Design and Development of Tracked Sugarcane Transporter - Tao Wu; Hebin Wu; Qingting Liu; Xiaoling Liang; Qiuju Fan; Cong Xie (Sugar Tech, 2021)

Numerical estimation of landslide-generated waves at Kaiding Slopes, Houziyan Reservoir, China, using a coupled DEM-SPH method - Yu-xiang Hu; Yong-guo Zhu; Hai-bo Li; Cong-jiang Li; Jia-wen Zhou (Landslides, 2021)

Influence of wet flue gas desulfurization on the pollutants monitoring in FCC flue gas - Feng Ju; Cong Wu; Hui Luan; Zhihe Tang; Helin Pan; Hui Pan; Guangli Xiu; Hao Ling (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

Does a free-market economy make mother nature angry? Evidence from Asian economies - Cong Minh Huynh; Hong Hiep Hoang (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

High-K calc-alkaline to shoshonitic intrusions in SE Tibet: implications for metasomatized lithospheric mantle beneath an active continental margin - Ren-Zhi Zhu; Ewa Słaby; Shao-Cong Lai; Li-Hui Chen; Jiangfeng Qin; Chao Zhang; Shaowei Zhao; Fangyi Zhang; Wen-hang Liu; Mike Fowler (Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 2021)

Active Landslide Detection Based on Sentinel-1 Data and InSAR Technology in Zhouqu County, Gansu Province, Northwest China - Cong Dai; Weile Li; Dong Wang; Huiyan Lu; Qiang Xu; Ji Jian (Journal of Earth Science, 2021)

The role of telomere dysfunction in genomic instability and age-related diseases - Lu Xu; Kexiong Zhang; Yu-Sheng Cong (Genome Instability & Disease, 2021)

Expression and functional analysis of cytoplasmic dynein during spermatogenesis in Portunus trituberculatus - Chao-Guang Wei; Dan-Li Mu; Dao-Jun Tang; Jun-Quan Zhu; Cong-Cong Hou (Cell and Tissue Research, 2021)

Chryseobacterium paridis sp. nov., an endophytic bacterial species isolated from the root of Paris polyphylla Smith var. yunnanensis - Zhen Zhang; Ling-Ling Yang; Cong-Jian Li; Xing-Wang Jiang; Xiao-Yang Zhi (Archives of Microbiology, 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)

Geochemical characteristics of the lower Cambrian Qiongzhusi Formation in Huize area, east Yunnan: implications for paleo-ocean environment and the origin of black rock series - Yong Cheng; Weiqing Liu; Wei Wu; Yu Zhang; Guo Tang; Cong Liu; Qi Nie; Yiming Wen; Ping Lu; Chuanyu Zhang (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2021)

Can the native faunal communities be restored from removal of invasive plants in coastal ecosystems? A global meta‐analysis - Zhonghua Ning; Cong Chen; Tian Xie; Zhenchang Zhu; Qing Wang; Baoshan Cui; Junhong Bai (Global Change Biology, 2021)
Coastal ecosystems worldwide are being threatened by invasive plants in the context of global changes. However, how invasive plants influence native faunal communities and whether native faunal communities can recover following the invader removals/controls across global coastal ecosystems are still poorly understood. Here, we present the first global meta‐analysis to quantify the impacts of Spartina species invasions on coastal faunal communities and further to evaluate the outcomes of Spartina species removals on faunal community recovery based on 74 independent studies. We found that invasive Spartina species generally decreased the biodiversity (e.g., species richness), but increased coastal faunal abundance (e.g., individual number) and fitness (e.g., biomass), though the effect on abundance was insignificant. The pattern of influence was strongly dependent on habitat types, faunal taxa, trophic levels, and feeding types. Specifically, Spartina species invasion of mudflats caused greater impacts than invasion of vegetated habitats. Insects and birds at higher trophic levels were strongly affected by invasive Spartina , indicating that invasive plant effects can cascade upward along the food chain. Additionally, impacts of Spartina invasions were more obvious on food specialists such as herbivores and carnivores. Furthermore, our analyses revealed that invader removals were overall beneficial for native faunal communities to recover from the displacement caused by Spartina invasions, but this recovery process depended on specific removal measure and time. For example, the long‐term waterlogging had strong negative impacts on faunal recovery, so it should not be encouraged. Our findings suggest that invasive plants could have contrasting effects on functional responses of native faunal communities. Although invasive plant removals could restore native faunal communities, future functional restorations of invaded ecosystems should take the legacy effects of invasive species on native communities into account. These findings provide insightful implications for future scientific controls of invasive species and ecosystem restoration under intensifying global changes.

Is the Spatial-Temporal Dependence Model Reliable for the Short-Term Freight Volume Forecast of Inland Ports? A Case Study of the Yangtze River, China - Lei Liu; Yong Zhang; Chen Chen; Yue Hu; Cong Liu; Jing Chen (Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2021)
The purpose of this study is to investigate whether spatial-temporal dependence models can improve the prediction performance of short-term freight volume forecasts in inland ports. To evaluate the effectiveness of spatial-temporal dependence forecasting, the basic time series forecasting models for use in our comparison were first built based on an autoregression integrated moving average model (ARIMA), a back-propagation neural network (BPNN), and support vector regression (SVR). Subsequently, combining a gradient boosting decision tree (GBDT) with SVR, an SVR-GBDT model for spatial-temporal dependence forecast was constructed. The SVR model was only used to build a spatial-temporal dependence forecasting model, which does not distinguish spatial and temporal information but instead takes them as data features. Taking inland ports in the Yangtze River as an example, the results indicated that the ports’ weekly freight volumes had a higher autocorrelation with the previous 1–3 weeks, and the Pearson correlation values of the ports’ weekly cargo volume were mainly located in the interval (0.2–0.5). In addition, the weekly freight volumes of the inland ports were higher depending on their past data, and the spatial-temporal dependence model improved the performance of the weekly freight volume forecasts for the inland river. This study may help to (1) reveal the significance of spatial correlation factors in ports’ short-term freight volume predictions, (2) develop prediction models for inland ports, and (3) improve the planning and operation of port entities.

The Relative Contributions of Complexation, Dispersing, and Adsorption of Tannic Acid to the Dissolution of Copper Oxide Nanoparticles - Cong Tan; Yang Liu; Ying He; Wenhao Luo; Ruicai Zhang; Martina G. Vijver; Willie J. G. M. Peijnenburg (Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 2021)

Natural Radionuclides in Rice Soils in the Mekong Delta Region, Vietnam: Health Risk, Transfer to Rice, and Long-Term Accumulation in Topsoil - Van Thang Nguyen; Binh An Le; Nguyen Phong Thu Huynh; Cong Hao Le (Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 2021)

Genomic structural equation modelling provides a whole-system approach for the future crop breeding - Tianhua He; Tefera Tolera Angessa; Camilla Beate Hill; Xiao-Qi Zhang; Kefei Chen; Hao Luo; Yonggang Wang; Sakura D. Karunarathne; Gaofeng Zhou; Cong Tan; Penghao Wang; Sharon Westcott; et al. (Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2021)

Lipidomic analyses reveal enhanced lipolysis in planthoppers feeding on resistant host plants - Xiaohong Zheng; Yeyun Xin; Yaxin Peng; Junhan Shan; Ning Zhang; Di Wu; Jianping Guo; Jin Huang; Wei Guan; Shaojie Shi; Cong Zhou; Rongzhi Chen; et al. (Science China Life Sciences, 2021)

Accelerating Creep Stage of Red Sandstone Expressed and Quantitatively Identified Based on Acoustic Emission Information - Kui Zhao; Daoxue Yang; Peng Zeng; Cong Gong; Xiaojun Wang; Wen Zhong (Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, 2021)

Silver nanoparticles as an effective stimulant in micropropagation of Panax vietnamensis—a valuable medicinal plant - Do Manh Cuong; Phan Cong Du; Hoang Thanh Tung; Ha Thi My Ngan; Vu Quoc Luan; Truong Hoai Phong; Hoang Dac Khai; Truong Thi Bich Phuong; Duong Tan Nhut (Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC), 2021)

Experimental investigation on synergetic prediction of rockburst using the dominant-frequency entropy of acoustic emission - Chunlai Wang; Cong Cao; Yubo Liu; Changfeng Li; Guangyong Li; Hui Lu (Natural Hazards, 2021)

Ecotoxicological effects of microplastics on aquatic organisms: a review - Huu Cong Vo; Minh Hen Pham (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

Occurrence and risk assessment of currently used organophosphate pesticides in overlying water and surface sediments in Guangzhou urban waterways, China - Gaoling Wei; Cong Wang; Wenpeng Niu; Qian Huan; Tingting Tian; Shujun Zou; Deyin Huang (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

Application of the modified cytosine base-editing in the cultured cells of bama minipig - Jia-sheng Pan; Zi-sheng Lin; Jian-cong Wen; Jian-feng Guo; Xia-hui Wu; Ying-ying Liu; Wen-jun Lai; Qi-ying Liang; Yong-shi Xie; Yi-rou Chen; Yi-hong Chen; Ai-fen Yan; et al. (Biotechnology Letters, 2021)

An isolated similarity design method for shaking table tests on reinforced slopes - Zhi-jia Wang; Gang Fan; Li-cong Cao; Jin-yuan Chang (Journal of Mountain Science, 2021)

Analytical solutions of one-line model to shoreline change on a coast bounded by solid boundaries - Vo Cong Hoang (Geo-Marine Letters, 2021)

Combination of optimized tissue engineering bone implantation with heel-strike like mechanical loading to repair segmental bone defect in New Zealand rabbits - Cong Zhu; Jianbiao Lin; Huixiang Jiang; Jianting Gao; Mingming Gao; Benwen Wu; Weibin Lin; Guofeng Huang; Zhenqi Ding (Cell and Tissue Research, 2021)

Complete genome analysis of the newly isolated Shigella sonnei phage vB_SsoM_Z31 - Bingdong Wei; Cong Cong; Lichun Zhang; Lin Zheng; Long Chen; Wei Yu; Yongping Xu (Archives of Virology, 2021)

A new approach for calculating the apparent resistivity tensor - Cong Zhou; Jing-Tian Tang; Yuan Yuan; Zheng-Yong Ren; Yong Li (Applied Geophysics, 2021)

A mitogenomic phylogeny of the Entomobryoidea (Collembola): A comparative perspective - Nerivânia Nunes Godeiro; Bruno Cavalcante Bellini; Nifeng Ding; Cong Xu; Yinhuan Ding; Feng Zhang (Zoologica Scripta, 2021)
Mitogenomes have been widely used as markers to reconstruct phylogenies of various groups of arthropods, but specifically for Collembola they have not been useful to resolve the relationships between some families, such as Paronellidae and Entomobryidae. Here, we present a phylogenetic study integrating previously published data and 20 new mitogenomes, totalling 54 species of Entomobryoidea and two external groups. Eight of the nine subfamilies were included, with species from the most representative genera. The new mitogenomes were sequenced, assembled and annotated, resulting in sequences with a length of approximately 14,000 bp. Phylogenetic analyses were conducted based on the 13 protein‐ and 2 rRNAs‐encoding genes of the 56 mitogenomes. Both maximum likelihood (with six different datasets/models) and Bayesian inference analyses were performed. Orchesellidae, Seirinae and Lepidocyrtinae were reaffirmed as monophyletic groups, while the phylogenetic relationships between Paronellidae and Entomobryidae remain confused. A complete resolution of the Entomobryoidea phylogeny will require a comprehensive genomic sampling of the most informative nuclear and mitochondrial markers to finally overcome traditional systematic problems.

Identification and mapping of CpPM10.1, a major gene involved in powdery mildew (race 2 France of Podosphaera xanthii) resistance in zucchini (Cucurbita pepo L.) - Yunli Wang; Cong Qi; Yusong Luo; Feng Zhang; Zuyun Dai; Man Li; Shuping Qu (Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2021)

Genome-wide association mapping for agronomic traits in an 8-way Upland cotton MAGIC population by SLAF-seq - Cong Huang; Chao Shen; Tianwang Wen; Bin Gao; De Zhu; Dingguo Li; Zhongxu Lin (Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2021)

Dynamical influence of the Madden-Julian oscillation on the Northern Hemisphere mesosphere during the boreal winter - Cong Sun; Chengyun Yang; Tao Li (Science China Earth Sciences, 2021)

In situ cosmogenic 10Be, 26Al, and 21Ne dating in sediments from the Guizhou Plateau, southwest China - Ye Yang; Yu Liu; Yan Ma; Sheng Xu; Cong-Qiang Liu; Shi-Jie Wang; Finlay M. Stuart; Derek Fabel (Science China Earth Sciences, 2021)

Pinocembrin-7-Methylether Protects SH-SY5Y Cells Against 6-Hydroxydopamine-Induced Neurotoxicity via Modulating Nrf2 Induction Through AKT and ERK Pathways - Zhi-Cong Zou; Ji-Jun Fu; Yuan-Ye Dang; Qian Zhang; Xiu-Fen Wang; Han-Bin Chen; Xue-Jing Jia; Simon Ming-Yuen Lee; Chu-Wen Li (Neurotoxicity Research, 2021)

Activation of AMPK inhibits Galectin-3-induced pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells proliferation by upregulating hippo signaling effector YAP - Qianqian Zhang; Wenge Li; Yanting Zhu; Qingting Wang; Cui Zhai; Wenhua Shi; Wei Feng; Jian Wang; Xin Yan; Limin Chai; Yuqian Chen; Cong Li; et al. (Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, 2021)

Activity of eugenol derivatives against Fusarium graminearum Q1 strain and screening of isoeugenol mixtures - Wen Cui; Kai-Yue Du; Yu-Xuan Ling; Cong-Jun Yang (Journal of Plant Pathology, 2021)

Effect of first-stage aeration on treatment of domestic sewage in different hybrid constructed wetlands - Fei-Long Yan; Yi Wang; Wen-Huai Wang; Heng Zhang; Yu-Cong Zheng; Xiao-Mei Kou; Shi-Zhang Wu; Tian Shao (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

Safety evaluation and ibuprofen removal via an Alternanthera philoxeroides-based biochar - Yuan-da Du; Xin-qian Zhang; Li Shu; Yu Feng; Cui Lv; Hong-qiang Liu; Fei Xu; Qian Wang; Cong-cong Zhao; Qiang Kong (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

An overview of chitosan and its application in infectious diseases - Qingye Meng; Ying Sun; Hailin Cong; Hao Hu; Fu-Jian Xu (Drug Delivery and Translational Research, 2021)

Hydrogeochemical and isotopic characteristics of spring water in the Yarlung Zangbo River Basin, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Southwest China - Ying-zhi Li; Zong-jun Gao; Jiu-tan Liu; Min Wang; Cong Han (Journal of Mountain Science, 2021)

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)

Face stability of the slurry shield–driven tunnel with an impermeable filter cake in saturated medium sand - Xianzhang Ling; Xiangxun Kong; Liang Tang; Wenchong Tang; Shengyi Cong; Juan Zhang; Xiangping Zhao (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2021)

The Characteristic of Critical Genes in Neuroendocrine System and Their Regulation on Food Habit Transition and Metamorphosis of Veined Rapa Whelk Rapana venosa (Valenciennes, 1846) - Mei-Jie Yang; Jie Feng; Hao Song; Zheng-Lin Yu; Pu Shi; Jian Liang; Zhi Hu; Cong Zhou; Xiao-Lin Wang; Tao Zhang (Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021)
Metamorphosis is a critical developmental event in mollusks, and neuroendocrine system plays an essential role in this process. Rapana venosa is an economically important shellfish in China, but the artificial technology of R. venosa aquaculture is limited by metamorphosis. As a carnivorous gastropod, food habit transition makes the mechanism of R. venosa metamorphosis more complex. To investigate the changes in the neuroendocrine system and to reveal its role in regulating the food habit transition and metamorphosis of R. venosa , we cloned the cDNA sequences encoding 5-hydroxytryptamine receptor ( Rv-5HTR ), nitric oxide synthetase ( Rv-NOS ) and cholecystokinin receptor ( Rv-CCKR ), and investigated their expression by quantitative real-time PCR analysis, and explore the spatio-temporal changes of 5-HT protein expression using Immunohistochemical (IHC) analysis. The expression of the three geens was significantly increased in the early intramembrane veliger stage, which indicates that the three genes are related to the development of digestive system. Additionally, expression of the three genes was decreased after metamorphosis, while Rv-NOS and Rv-CCKR were increasingly expressed in competent larvae, which may help the larvae find suitable environments and promote digestive system development for metamorphosis, and the result of 5-HT IHC analysis also reflects the development of neuroendocrine system. Furthermore, results show that CCK can effect the expression of digestive enzyme, NOS and 5-HT receptor. Finally, based on the present results, we hypothesized that CCK and CCK receptor may be critical regulatory factors of food habit transition and metamorphosis. These results might provide information on the development of neuroendocrine system of R. venosa , and new insight into the regulation of the food habit transition and metamorphosis of gastropods.

Pangasius Catfish Feeding with Flammulina velutipes Extract Decreases the Disease Ratio, Prevents Lipid Oxidation, Structure Damage and Color Changes during Cool Preservation - Nguyen Cong Ha; Le Thi Bich Hiep; Le Toan; Khuu Thi Ngoc Han; Le Thi Hong Nho; Huynh Cam Nhu; Pham Thi Ngoc Nhu; Nguyen Thi Ngoc Tuyet; Nguyen Thi Ngoc; Ibitoye Joshua Oladapo (Journal of Aquatic Food Product Technology, 2021)

Numerical Study on Interaction between Submarine Landslides and a Monopile Using CFD Techniques - Ru-Yu Li; Jin-Jian Chen; Chen-Cong Liao (Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2021)
Offshore installations with pile foundations in shallow water are vulnerable to submarine landslides, which cause serious damage to engineering facilities, loss of life, and loss of money. Due to a shortage of real observation data and the difficulty of reproduction, we lack insight into the interaction behavior between submarine landslides and monopiles. This study capitalized on ANSYS Fluent 20.0 to develop a three-dimensional biphasic (water and slurry) numerical model. This CFD model was used to analyze the interaction between a monopile and submarine landslides at different flow heights. The velocities of submarine landslides were from low to high values. Two modes of interactional forces acting on the monopile are proposed, which are (i) interaction force with peak value and (ii) interaction force without peak value. The influence of flow height and velocity on interaction forces was investigated. Results show that the effect of the flow heights on the interaction force is significant at low velocity stage, while the peak force representing a hazard level of the pile was non-negligible under high flow velocity and low flow height conditions, which should be considered in a future study. The related mechanisms are revealed with a hybrid model considering different components of the force.

Antibiotic usage and resistance in animal production in Vietnam: a review of existing literature - Khanh Nguyen Di; Duy Toan Pham; Tay Sun Tee; Quach An Binh; Thanh Cong Nguyen (Tropical Animal Health and Production, 2021)

Screening beneficial bacteriostatic lactic acid bacteria in the intestine and studies of bacteriostatic substances - Zhijing Liu; Cong Xu; Ran Tian; Wan Wang; Jiage Ma; Liya Gu; Fei Liu; Zhanmei Jiang; Juncai Hou (Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE B, 2021)

A New Spiropyran-Based Fluorescent Probe for Dual Sensing of Ferrous Ion and pH - Dan Zhang; Youguo Qi; Yanjie Li; Yanxi Song; Chunying Xian; Hongqi Li; Peihong Cong (Journal of Fluorescence, 2021)

Preferential capture of phosphate by an Enteromorpha prolifera–based biopolymer encapsulating hydrous zirconium oxide nanoparticles - Qian-Qian Zhong; Li Shen; Ya-Qin Zhao; Yu-Cui Hao; Li-Cong Meng; Yan-Juan Liu; Xing Xu; Ya-Nan Shang; Bao-Yu Gao; Qin-Yan Yue (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

Long-lived cold blobs in the Northeast Pacific linked with the tropical La Niña - Cong Tang; Jian Shi; Chun Li (Climate Dynamics, 2021)

Experimental investigations on the tensile behaviour of granite after heating and water-cooling treatment - Fan Zhang; Cong Dai; Yuhao Zhang; Dianbin Guo; Jianfu Shao; Dawei Hu (Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, 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)

Heavy Metal Adsorption and Release on Polystyrene Particles at Various Salinities - Beta Susanto Barus; Kai Chen; Minggang Cai; Rongmao Li; Huorong Chen; Cong Li; Jun Wang; Sha-Yen Cheng (Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021)
Microplastics (MPs) and heavy metals are two major types of pollutants that interact with each other, but they are poorly understood. Polystyrene (PS) is one type of MPs that is often detected in aquatic environments. In this study, we examined the adsorption capacity and release rate of heavy metals with respect to different particle sizes of PS, heavy metals, initial heavy metal concentrations, and salinities. Virgin (new) PS with diameters of 20, 50, 130, and 250 μm was used in this study, and four heavy metals (lead, cadmium, copper, and zinc) were used. The results showed that larger PS particle sizes adsorbed more heavy metals even though it took longer to achieve equilibrium adsorption. An increase in heavy metal concentration caused the adsorption capacity (μg g –1 ) of PS particles to also increase, but the adsorption rate (%) decreased. Increased salinity of the heavy metal solution resulted in a slower adsorption time and a lower adsorption capacity and release rate from the surface of PS particles. Different heavy metals also had different adsorption capacities. Pb was consistently more highly adsorbed by MPs, followed by Cu, Zn, and Cd. Larger PS sizes released heavy metals faster than smaller PS sizes, and the amounts of heavy metals released were higher. The heavy metal with the highest release rate was Cd, followed by Pb, Cu, and Zn. Finally, our findings highlight the interactions between PS and heavy metals and strongly support that PS particles can act as vectors for heavy metals in aquatic systems.

Seismic active earth resistance of submerged backfill considering anisotropic seepage - Rui Huang; Nan Yang; Cong Cheng (Marine Georesources & Geotechnology, 2021)

De novo hydroponics system efficiency for the cuttings of alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) - Zhili Zhao; Wenyu Zhang; Yang Liu; Shuai Li; Wu Yao; Xiaohui Sun; Siyu Li; Lichao Ma; Juan Sun; Qingchuan Yang; Yongxiang Li; Guofeng Yang; et al. (Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants, 2021)
The legume plant alfalfa ( Medicago sativa L.) is a widely cultivated perennial forage due to its high protein content, palatability, and strong adaptability to diverse agro-ecological zones. Alfalfa is a self-incompatible cross-pollinated autotetraploid species with tetrasomic inheritance. Therefore, maintaining excellent traits through seed reproduction is a prime challenge in alfalfa. However, the cutting propagation technology could enable consistent multiplication of quality plants that are genetically identical to the parent plant. The current study aimed to develop a simple, cost-effective, reproducible, and efficient hydroponic cutting method to preserve alfalfa plants and for molecular research. In this study, alfalfa landrace ‘Wudi’ was grown in hydroponics for 30 days and used as source material for cuttings. The top, middle and bottom sections of its stem were used as cuttings. The rooting rate, root length, and stem height of the different stem sections were compared to determine the best segment for alfalfa propagation in four nutrient treatments (H M , H M + 1/500H, H M + 1/1000H and d H M + 1/2000H). After 21 days of culture, the rooting rates of all the three stem types under four cutting nutrient solutions were above 78%. The rooting rate of the middle and bottom parts in H M + 1/1000 H and H M + 1/2000 H nutrient solutions reached more than 93%, with a higher health survey score (> 4.70). In conclusion, this study developed a de novo cutting propagation method that can be used to conserve and propagate germplasm in breeding programs and research. This method is a new report on the cutting propagation of alfalfa by hydroponics, which could supplement the existing cutting propagation methods.

Mutation analysis of 28 autosomal short tandem repeats in the Chinese Han population - Yujie Huang; Cong Liu; Chao Xiao; Xiaoying Chen; Xueli Han; Shaohua Yi; Daixin Huang (Molecular Biology Reports, 2021)

Molecular cloning, characterization and expression analysis of three key starch synthesis-related genes from the bulb of a rare lily germplasm, Lilium brownii var. giganteum - Yun Wu; Minyi Sun; Shiqi Li; Ruihan Min; Cong Gao; Qundan Lyu; Ziming Ren; Yiping Xia (Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE B, 2021)

Runx2 deficiency in junctional epithelium of mouse molars decreases the expressions of E-cadherin and junctional adhesion molecule 1 - Yuan Tian; Haiyu Mu; Aiqin Wang; Yan Gao; Zhiheng Dong; Yang Zhao; Cong Li; Li Zhang; Yuguang Gao (Journal of Molecular Histology, 2021)

Cultivation and biomass production of the diatom Thalassiosira weissflogii as a live feed for white-leg shrimp in hatcheries and commercial farms in Vietnam - Luu Thi Tam; Nguyen Van Cong; Le Thi Thom; Nguyen Cam Ha; Nguyen Thi Minh Hang; Chau Van Minh; Do Thi Hoa Vien; Dang Diem Hong (Journal of Applied Phycology, 2021)

Temperature changes between neighboring days and childhood asthma: a seasonal analysis in Shanghai, China - Xiaoning Lei; Lijuan Liu; Renjie Chen; Cong Liu; Jianguo Hong; Lanfang Cao; Yanming Lu; Xiaoyan Dong; Xinchang Chen; Xiangwei Qiu; Min Xia; Bo Ding; et al. (International Journal of Biometeorology, 2021)

An In Silico Method for Predicting Drug Synergy Based on Multitask Learning - Xin Chen; Lingyun Luo; Cong Shen; Pingjian Ding; Jiawei Luo (Interdisciplinary Sciences: Computational Life Sciences, 2021)

Template synthesis of ordered mesoporous MgO with superior adsorption for Pb(II) and Cd(II) - Zhiping Liu; Cong Li; Mengjie Kuang; Baixiong Liu; Bin Yang (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

Association between fine particulate matter and heart failure hospitalizations: a time-series analysis in Yancheng, China - Xu Li; Hongyi Cheng; Yan Fang; Zhichao Chen; Guangyu Qi; Renjie Chen; Haidong Kan; Cong Liu; Jingyan Cao (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

Alterinioella nitratireducens gen. nov., sp. nov., Isolated from Seawater in the West Pacific Ocean - Yan-Hui Kong; Cong Sun; Li-Li Guo; Lin Xu; Yue-Hong Wu; Xue-Wei Xu (Current Microbiology, 2021)

Trajectory prediction based on long short-term memory network and Kalman filter using hurricanes as an example - Wanting Qin; Jun Tang; Cong Lu; Songyang Lao (Computational Geosciences, 2021)
Trajectory data can objectively reflect the moving law of moving objects. Therefore, trajectory prediction has high application value. Hurricanes often cause incalculable losses of life and property, trajectory prediction can be an effective means to mitigate damage caused by hurricanes. With the popularization and wide application of artificial intelligence technology, from the perspective of machine learning, this paper trains a trajectory prediction model through historical trajectory data based on a long short-term memory (LSTM) network. An improved LSTM (ILSTM) trajectory prediction algorithm that improves the prediction of the simple LSTM is proposed, and the Kalman filter is used to filter the prediction results of the improved LSTM algorithm, which is called LSTM-KF. Through simulation experiments of Atlantic hurricane data from 1851 to 2016, compared to other LSTM and ILSTM algorithms, it is found that the LSTM-KF trajectory prediction algorithm has the lowest prediction error and the best prediction effect.

Genome-wide analyses and expression patterns under abiotic stress of LAC gene family in pear (Pyrus bretschneideri) - Chunyi Lu; Tianyuan Yang; Yiwu Zhang; Xingchen Miao; Cong Jin; Xiaoyong Xu (Plant Biotechnology Reports, 2021)

Application Overview of Membrane Separation Technology in Coal Mine Water Resources Treatment in Western China - Fan Wang; Yu Wang; Cong Jing (Mine Water and the Environment, 2021)

Porcine carotid arteries decellularized with a suitable concentration combination of Triton X-100 and sodium dodecyl sulfate for tissue engineering vascular grafts - Zhiwen Cai; Yongquan Gu; Yonghao Xiao; Cong Wang; Zhonggao Wang (Cell and Tissue Banking, 2021)

Impacts of metallic nanoparticles and transformed products on soil health - Wenjie Sun; Fugen Dou; Cong Li; Xingmao Ma; Lena Q. Ma (Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, 2021)

PtP38 May Increase the Immune Ability of Portunus trituberculatus Stimulated by LPS Imitating a Gram-Negative Bacterial Infection - Cheng-Peng Lu; Chao-Guang Wei; Jun-Quan Zhu; Dao-Jun Tang; Chun-Lin Wang; Cong-Cong Hou (Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021)
The P38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signal transduction pathway is widespread in organisms and plays important roles in immune activities. The infection mechanism of environmental gram-negative bacteria on crustaceans is an important scientific problem. In this study, the cDNA full-length sequence of Portunus trituberculatus P38 (PtP38) was cloned and its structure was analyzed by bioinformatics methods. To study the function of the PtP38 gene after a Gram-negative bacterial infection, we injected P. trituberculatus with LPS to activate the immune response instead of directly infecting with Gram-negative bacteria. With LPS stimulation, the expression of the PtP38 gene in different tissues increased significantly. At the same time, the expression of immune-related genes (ALF and crustin) in the hepatopancreas, activities of antioxidant enzymes [superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), and inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) enzymes], and expression of apoptosis-related genes (caspase2 and caspase3) were increased significantly. To further conform the function of PtP38 in the immune response, we injected P. trituberculatus with P38 inhibitor and subsequently injected with LPS. The results showed that the expression of immune-related genes was inhibited, the activity of antioxidant enzymes was decreased, and the expression of apoptosis-related genes were inhibited. Thus, we speculated that PtP38 may increase the immune ability by improving the expression of antimicrobial peptides, increasing the activity of oxidative stress-related enzymes, and promoting cell apoptosis in infected P. trituberculatus . This study also laid the foundation for further study of the P38 MAPK signaling pathway and immune mechanism of P. trituberculatus .

The Slope-Attribute-Regularized High-Resolution Prestack Seismic Inversion - Guangtan Huang; Xiaohong Chen; Jingye Li; Omar M. Saad; Sergey Fomel; Cong Luo; Hang Wang; Yangkang Chen (Surveys in Geophysics, 2021)

Common Mode Component and Its Potential Effect on GPS-Inferred Crustal Deformations in Greenland - Yankai Bian; Jianping Yue; Vagner G. Ferreira; Kanglin Cong; Dongjian Cai (Pure and Applied Geophysics, 2021)

Fluvastatin attenuated ischemia/reperfusion-induced autophagy and apoptosis in cardiomyocytes through down-regulation HMGB1/TLR4 signaling pathway - Hua-Sheng Ding; Jun Yang; Jian Yang; Xin Guo; Yan-Hong Tang; Yan Huang; Zhen Chen; Zhi-Xing Fan; Cong-Xin Huang (Molecular Biology Reports, 2021)

Wastewater analysis reveals urban, suburban, and rural spatial patterns of illicit drug use in Dalian, China - Zi-Xiang Cong; Xue-Ting Shao; Si-Yu Liu; Wei Pei; De-Gao Wang (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

Bacterial Communities in Bacteriomes, Ovaries and Testes of three Geographical Populations of a Sap-Feeding Insect, Platypleura kaempferi (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) - Dandan Wang; Yunxiang Liu; Yan Su; Cong Wei (Current Microbiology, 2021)

Genome analysis of Salmonella phage vB_SalM_8-19 (genus Rosemountvirus) - Cong Cong; Wei Bing Dong; Cui Hui Jing; Yuan Yu Yu; Xu Yong Ping; Wang Li Li; Li Shu Ying; Li Ji Bin; Xu Mu; Li Xiao Yu (Archives of Microbiology, 2021)

Experimental Study on the Unsteady Natural Cloud Cavities: Influence of Cavitation Number on Cavity Evolution and Pressure Pulsations - Tiezhi Sun; Xiaoshi Zhang; Jianyu Zhang; Cong Wang (Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2021)
High-speed underwater vehicles are subjected to complex multiphase turbulent processes, such as the growth, development, shedding, and collapse of cavitation bubbles. To study the cavity evolution and pressure pulsation characteristics, in this paper, cloud cavitation over a conical axisymmetric test body with four pressure sensors is investigated. A multi-field simultaneous measurement experiment method for the natural cavitation of underwater vehicles is proposed to understand the relationship between cavity evolution and instantaneous pressure. The results show that the evolution of cloud cavitation can be mainly divided into three stages: (I) the growth process of the attached cavity, (II) the shedding process of the attached cavity, and (III) the collapse of detached cavities. The evolution of the attached cavity and collapse of the large-scale shedding cavity will cause strong pressure pulsations. It is found that the cavitation number plays an important role in cavitation evolution and pressure pulsation. Interestingly, as the cavitation number decreases, the fluctuation intensity of cavitation increases significantly and gradually presents obvious periodicity. Moreover, the unstable cavitating flow patterns are highly correlated with the time domain and frequency domain characteristics of pressure. Especially, as the cavitation number decreases, the main frequency becomes lower and the pressure band becomes more concentrated.

Seasonal Variations in Total Lipid and Fatty Acid Composition of Haliotis discus Hannai from Three Different Production Zones - Lipin Chen; Qi Wang; Xiaohan Cong; Fanqianhui Yu; Yong Xue; Qingjuan Tang; Changhu Xue; Yanqing Liu; Zhaojie Li (Journal of Aquatic Food Product Technology, 2021)

Bicyclic lactones from the octocoral Dendronephthya mucronata - Ninh Thi Ngoc; Tran Thi Hong Hanh; Hai Dang Nguyen; Tran Hong Quang; Nguyen Xuan Cuong; Nguyen Hoai Nam; Do Cong Thung; Nguyen Dang Ngai; Phan Van Kiem; Chau Van Minh (Natural Product Research, 2021)

Taxonomic bias in occurrence information of angiosperm species in China - Wenjing Yang; Dandan Liu; Qinghui You; Bin Chen; Minfei Jian; Qiwu Hu; Mingyang Cong; Keping Ma (Science China Life Sciences, 2021)

Multi-decadal trends in the tropical Pacific western boundary currents retrieved from historical hydrological observations - Shijian Hu; Xi Lu; Shihan Li; Fan Wang; Cong Guan; Dunxin Hu; Linchao Xin; Jie Ma (Science China Earth Sciences, 2021)
As large-scale ocean circulation is a key regulator in the redistribution of oceanic energy, evaluating the multi-decadal trends in the western Pacific Ocean circulation under global warming is essential for not only understanding the basic physical processes but also predicting future climate change in the western Pacific. Employing the hydrological observations of World Ocean Atlas 2018 (WOA18) from 1955 to 2017, this study calculated the geostrophic currents, volume transport and multi-decadal trends for the North Equatorial Current (NEC), the North Equatorial Countercurrent (NECC), the Mindanao Current (MC), the Kuroshio Current (KC) in the origin and the New Guinea Coastal Undercurrent (NGCUC) within tropical western Pacific Ocean over multi-decades. Furthermore, this study examined the contributions of temperature and salinity variations. The results showed significant strengthening trends in NEC, MC and NGCUC over the past six decades, which is mainly contributed by temperature variations and consistent with the tendency in the dynamic height pattern. Zonal wind stress averaged over the western Pacific Ocean in the same latitude of each current represents the decadal variation and multi-decadal trends in corresponding ocean currents, indicating that the trade wind forcing plays an important role in the decadal trend in the tropical western Pacific circulation. Uncertainties in the observed hydrological data and trends in the currents over the tropical western Pacific are also discussed. Given that the WOA18 dataset covers most of the historical hydrological sampling data for the tropical western Pacific, this paper provides important observational information on the multi-decadal trend of the large-scale ocean circulation in the western Pacific.

Selective Ferroptosis Inhibitor Liproxstatin-1 Attenuates Neurological Deficits and Neuroinflammation After Subarachnoid Hemorrhage - Yang Cao; Yin Li; Chao He; Feng Yan; Jian-Ru Li; Hang-Zhe Xu; Jian-Feng Zhuang; Hang Zhou; Yu-Cong Peng; Xiong-Jie Fu; Xiao-Yang Lu; Yuan Yao; et al. (Neuroscience Bulletin, 2021)

Systematic analysis to identify transcriptome-wide dysregulation of Alzheimer’s disease in genes and isoforms - Cong Fan; Ken Chen; Jiaxin Zhou; Ping-pui Wong; Dan He; Yiqi Huang; Xin Wang; Tianze Ling; Yuedong Yang; Huiying Zhao (Human Genetics, 2021)

Investigation on the dust migration behavior and safety zone in the fully mechanized mining face - Xin-xiao Lu; Cheng-yan Wang; Yun Xing; Cong Shen; Guo-yu Shi (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

Catalyst-free fixation of carbon dioxide into value-added chemicals: a review - Cong Chien Truong; Dinesh Kumar Mishra (Environmental Chemistry Letters, 2021)

Decoupling the Complementarity Effect and the Selection Effect on the Overyielding of Fine Root Production Along a Tree Species Richness Gradient in Subtropical Forests - Cong Liu; Wenhua Xiang; Binggeng Xie; Shuai Ouyang; Yelin Zeng; Pifeng Lei; Changhui Peng (Ecosystems, 2021)

Altered white matter structural networks in drug-naïve patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder - Cong Zhou; Liangliang Ping; Wei Chen; Mengxin He; Jian Xu; Zonglin Shen; Yi Lu; Binli Shang; Xiufeng Xu; Yuqi Cheng (Brain Imaging and Behavior, 2021)

Influence of Dose on Neutrophil-Mediated Delivery of Nanoparticles for Tumor-Targeting Therapy Strategies - Min Liu; Cong Li; NaYan; Dan Zhao; Hongxia Zhang; Jie Li; Xueying Tang; Xinrong Liu; Yihui Deng; Yanzhi Song (AAPS PharmSciTech, 2021)

Algorithm of Berthing and Maneuvering for Catamaran Unmanned Surface Vehicle Based on Ship Maneuverability - Gongxing Wu; Mingyuan Zhao; Yu Cong; ZhiWen Hu; Guofu Li (Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2021)
In the complex port environment, ship berthing manipulation is one of the most difficult operations. In this study, an algorithm of berthing and maneuvering was designed for a catamaran unmanned surface vehicle (USV), which is used for port patrol and protection. Considering the influence of wind, waves, and currents, the mathematical model of the maneuvering movement for the twin-hull and twin-propeller USV was established. Based on the Visual Studio development platform, the USV’s berthing manipulation simulation software was designed. Through the turning simulation experiment of the catamaran USV under different differential rotation speeds of the twin propellers, the relationship between the ship’s turning radius and the propeller speed difference was obtained. A simulation experiment of decelerating and stopping ships at different speeds was carried out, which can provide a reference for speed control when berthing. A berthing maneuvering algorithm based on ship maneuverability was proposed. USV’s berthing algorithm includes three stages: approach process, turning process, and berthing process. In the approach process, the appropriate approach speed was select according to the rotation angle. In the turning process, the right and left propeller speed differences were select. In the berthing process, the berthing speed was controlled according to the berthing distance. In the port environment, a berthing simulation experiment for catamaran USV was carried out. The simulation results show that based on the berthing and maneuvering algorithm, the efficiency and safety of catamaran USV berthing can be improved.

Experimental study on the formation and migration of submarine sandwaves under wave-only and combined wave-current conditions - Wang Cong; Sun Yongfu; Liu Zhenwen; Zhou Qikun; Zang Zhipeng (Marine Georesources & Geotechnology, 2021)

Performance assessment of the AquaCrop model for film-mulched maize with full drip irrigation in Northwest China - Qinsi He; Sien Li; Dan Hu; Yahui Wang; Xue Cong (Irrigation Science, 2021)

Application of Constant Rate of Strain Tests in Consolidation Analysis of the Band-Shaped Prefabricated Vertical Drains for Vietnam Clays: The Validation Analysis - Cong-Oanh Nguyen; Thi-Thanh Tran; Van-Tram Thi Dao (Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, 2021)

Impact process of the aquitard to regional arsenic accumulation of the underlying aquifer in Central Yangtze River Basin - Cong Xiao; Teng Ma; Yao Du; Yanjun Liu; Rui Liu; Dongtao Zhang; Juan Chen (Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 2021)

Hourly solar irradiance prediction using deep BiLSTM network - Cong Li; Yaonan Zhang; Guohui Zhao; Yanrun Ren (Earth Science Informatics, 2021)

Marinobacter caseinilyticus sp. nov., Isolated from Saline Soil - Yanfang Nie; Xin Su; Dildar Wu; Ran Zhang; Ruijun Wang; Zhe Zhao; Maripat Xamxidin; Cong Sun; Min Wu (Current Microbiology, 2021)

Three-dimensional pore characteristics and permeability properties of calcareous sand with different particle sizes - Zhihan Fan; Cong Hu; Qianlin Zhu; Yonggang Jia; Dianjun Zuo; Zhibo Duan (Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, 2021)

The influence of inhomogeneous hydrate formation on permeability anisotropy of porous media - Cong Hu; Yonggang Jia; Zhibo Duan (Geo-Marine Letters, 2021)

Breast milk contains probiotics with anti‐infantile diarrhoea effects that may protect infants as they change to solid foods - Haiyue Niu; Xiaohong Zhou; Xuguang Zhang; Tongjie Liu; Yifan Wu; Linzheng Lyu; Cong Liang; Shiwei Chen; Pimin Gong; Jiliang Zhang; Xue Han; Shilong Jiang; et al. (Environmental Microbiology, 2021)
Summary Infants often experience complementary food‐induced diarrhoea (CFID), which occurs when infants switch from breast milk to solid foods. The relative abundances of Prevotella and Rothia were higher in stools of infants with CFID, while the relative abundances of Enterococcus and Escherichia were higher in healthy infants. The abundance of Lactobacillus spp . normally found in breast milk fed to infants with CFID was significantly reduced, and Enterococcus spp. were less abundant when diarrhoea occurred. Furthermore, Lactobacillus and Enterococcus were present as shared bacteria in both mother and infant, and they were considered potential anti‐CFID probiotics as their relative abundances in breast milk were negatively correlated to infant CFID. Kyoto encyclopedia of genes and genomes (KEGG) functional analysis showed that the function of amino acid metabolism differed between infants with CFID and healthy infants. Therefore, CFID might be related to the decomposition of proteins in food supplements. The screening revealed seven hydrolytic casein and five hydrolytic casein and rice protein isolates from 320 suspected Lactobacillus and Enterococcus isolates. The animal experiments demonstrated that a mixture of five isolates effectively hydrolysed the casein and rice protein and prevented diarrhoea in young rats. Thus, the occurrence of CFID was found to be closely related to the intestinal and breast milk microbiota, and bacteria that could assist in the digestion of cereal proteins were involved in CFID.

An Integrated Dynamic Model and Optimized Fuzzy Controller for Path Tracking of Deep-Sea Mining Vehicle - Yu Dai; Cong Xue; Qiao Su (Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2021)
The capability of path tracking largely determines the operational efficiency of deep-sea mining vehicles. In this paper, the relationships of vehicle–sediment mechanical interaction were obtained by sinkage and shear tests. Then, an overset grid method was used to establish the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model of the vehicle, and the spatial hydrodynamic distribution was calculated in different motion states. Based on the above research, a multi-body dynamic (MBD) model of the mining vehicle was developed, which considered the spatial hydrodynamic effects and the mechanical interaction between vehicle and sediment. In addition, a path-tracking controller based on fuzzy logic control was proposed. A genetic algorithm optimized the fuzzy rules through co-simulation between the controller and the MBD model. Finally, the co-simulation results of the vehicle which moved along the expected path indicated that the performance of the optimized fuzzy controller was preferable to the original fuzzy controller.

Cytotoxic activity and phytochemical composition of Stereospermum binhchauensis V.S. Dang leaves - Dinh Tri Mai; Trong Nghia Ngo; Ngoc Thien Ly Nguyen; Quoc Luan Ngo; Nhat Phan Minh; Trong Dat Bui; Van Son Dang; Cong Luan Tran; Nguyen Kim Tuyen Pham; Nguyen Minh An Tran; Tan Phat Nguyen (Natural Product Research, 2021)

Application of data mining to lagging deformation prediction of the underwater shield tunnel - Xin Li; Yiguo Xue; Daohong Qiu; Xinmin Ma; Cong Qu; Binghua Zhou; Fanmeng Kong (Marine Georesources & Geotechnology, 2021)

Antimicrobial compounds from marine fungi - Cong Wang; Siyan Tang; Shugeng Cao (Phytochemistry Reviews, 2021)

Evaluation of geogenic cadmium bioavailability in soil-rice system with high geochemical background caused by black shales - Cong Zhong; Zixu Feng; Wei Jiang; Lin Xiao; Xinying Zhang; Yinjun Zhao; Qing Lin (Journal of Soils and Sediments, 2021)

The role of MYB proto-oncogene like 2 in tamoxifen resistance in breast cancer - Xia Li; Xi Zhang; Cong-Cong Wu; Ping-Ping Li; Yi-Mou Fu; Li-Hua Xie; Shuang-Shuang Sun; Ying-Ying Zhou; Bao-Ling Zhu (Journal of Molecular Histology, 2021)

Numerical simulation of seasonal snow in Tianshan Mountains - Yan-run Ren; Yao-nan Zhang; Jian-sheng Hao; Yong-ping Shen; Guo-hui Zhao; Cong Li (Journal of Mountain Science, 2021)

Comparative Study of Wound-Healing Activity of Dihydroquercetin Pseudopolymorphic Modifications - R. P. Terekhov; I. A. Selivanova; M. N. Anurova; A. K. Zhevlakova; I. D. Nikitin; Zh. Cong; S. Ma; F. Yang; Z. Dong; Y. Liao (Bulletin of Experimental Biology and Medicine, 2021)

Multiple‐scale negative impacts of warming on ecosystem carbon use efficiency across the Tibetan Plateau grasslands - Ning Chen; Yangjian Zhang; Juntao Zhu; Nan Cong; Guang Zhao; Jiaxing Zu; Zhipeng Wang; Ke Huang; Li Wang; Yaojie Liu; Zhoutao Zheng; Ze Tang; et al. (Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2021)
Aim Ecosystem carbon use efficiency (CUEe) is a core parameter of ecosystem process models, but its relationships with climate are still uncertain, especially for ecosystems with harsh environments. Large inconsistencies in climate impacts on the CUEe have been reported among various spatial scales. The goal of this study was to examine whether warming promotes or restricts the CUEe and whether the CUEe responds to a warming gradient in a linear or nonlinear manner. Location Tibetan Plateau. Time period 2000–2018. Major taxa studied Alpine grassland ecosystem. Methods We integrated multiple‐source data of carbon fluxes and CUEe, including warming experiments at a site scale, eddy covariance observations at a landscape scale and synthesized warming experiments and ecosystem process models at a regional scale. Next, we deployed a statistical model to examine the warming impacts on the CUEe across scales; the effects of biotic and abiotic factors on the CUEe and its components were summarized based on the results of standardized major axis tests and routines, structural equation modelling and nonlinear models. Results This study reported a suppressive warming impact on the CUEe, which followed a nonlinear curve with severe inhibition in the high‐level warming treatment. With a warming threshold of 1.5–2.0°C, CUEe response patterns transitioned from no change to a significant decrease. The restriction effects can be ascribed to the joint adverse and asymmetric effects of warming on CUEe components under multiple‐level warming. Warming‐modified relationships among CUEe components and the nonlinear effects of biotic and abiotic factors led to the nonlinear responses of CUEe to warming. Main conclusions This study revealed suppressive and nonlinear effects of warming on the CUEe, including especially dramatic CUEe decreases with high‐level warming. These findings are critical for optimizing model parameters and improving predictions of the carbon sequestration capacity of alpine grasslands.

Pore pressure and spalling in fire-exposed high-strength self-consolidating concrete reinforced with hybrid fibres - Cong Zhang; Jincheng Liu; Shicheng Han; Yuan Hua (European Journal of Environmental and Civil Engineering, 2021)

Preparation, Characterization, and In Vitro Pharmacodynamics and Pharmacokinetics Evaluation of PEGylated Urolithin A Liposomes - Shengfu Yi; Cong Zhang; Junjie Hu; Yan Meng; Liang Chen; Huifan Yu; Shan Li; Guihong Wang; Guohua Zheng; Zhenpeng Qiu (AAPS PharmSciTech, 2021)

Sialic Acid Conjugate–Modified Liposomal Dexamethasone Palmitate Targeting Neutrophils for Rheumatoid Arthritis Therapy: Influence of Particle Size - Shuo Wang; Shuaishuai Yang; Xiaoxue Lai; Yanzhi Song; Ling Hu; Cong Li; Tao Shi; Xinrong Liu; Yihui Deng; Guoliang Chen (AAPS PharmSciTech, 2021)

Investigation on disc cutter behaviors in cutting rocks of different strengths and reverse estimation of rock strengths from experimental cutting forces - Yu-cong Pan; Quan-sheng Liu; Jian-ping Liu; Xiao-xuan Kong; Xing-xin Peng; Qi Liu (European Journal of Environmental and Civil Engineering, 2021)

Recent progress on bio-succinic acid production from lignocellulosic biomass - Jiasheng Lu; Jiawen Li; Hao Gao; Dawei Zhou; Huixin Xu; Yuexin Cong; Wenming Zhang; Fengxue Xin; Min Jiang (World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2021)

Early-Life Multiple Sevoflurane Exposures Alleviate Long-term Anxiety-Like Behaviors in Mice via the proBDNF/ERK Pathway - Ru-Yi Luo; Cong Luo; Feng Zhong; Wei-Yun Shen; Hui Li; Yan-Ling Zhang; Ru-Ping Dai (Molecular Neurobiology, 2021)

Data prediction of soil heavy metal content by deep composite model - Wenqi Cao; Cong Zhang (Journal of Soils and Sediments, 2021)

The sensitivity of numerical simulation to vertical mixing parameterization schemes: a case study for the Yellow Sea Cold Water Mass - Congcong Bi; Zhigang Yao; Xianwen Bao; Cong Zhang; Yang Ding; Xihui Liu; Junru Guo (Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2021)

Knockdown of hsa_circ_0037658 inhibits the progression of osteoarthritis via inducing autophagy - Cong Sui; Debao Liu; Yukang Que; Shenglin Xu; Yong Hu (Human Cell, 2021)

Experimental Research on Dynamic Evolution Characteristics of Roof Movement and Mining-Induced Stress of Superimposed Mining in a Close Distance Coal Seam Group - Zhiheng Cheng; Haifeng Ma; Cong Sang; Yanqing Liu (Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, 2021)

Transcriptome landscapes of differentially expressed genes related to fat deposits in Nandan-Yao chicken - Cong Xiao; Tiantian Sun; Zhuliang Yang; Wenwen Xu; Juan Wang; Linghu Zeng; Jixian Deng; Xiurong Yang (Functional & Integrative Genomics, 2021)

Optimization of production parameters of fish protein hydrolysate from Sarda Orientalis black muscle (by-product) using protease enzyme - Xuan Dong Bui; Cong Tuan Vo; Viet Cuong Bui; Thi My Pham; Thi Thu Hien Bui; Toan Nguyen-Sy; Thi Dong Phuong Nguyen; Kit Wayne Chew; M. D. Mukatova; Pau Loke Show (Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy, 2021)

Characterization of Coprecipitates of As(III) and Fe(II) in the Presence of Phyllosilicate Nanoparticles - Hao-Jie Cui; Hongzheng Wang; Cong Wu; Xiaoqing Wei; Wenjuan Liao; Weijun Zhou (Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 2021)

Effects of biochar amendment on greenhouse gas emission in two paddy soils with different textures - Jieyun Liu; Husen Qiu; Cong Wang; Jianlin Shen; Wenzheng Zhang; Jiumao Cai; Hong Tang; Jinshui Wu (Paddy and Water Environment, 2021)

Molecular evolution and characterization of hemagglutinin and neuraminidase of influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 viruses isolated in Beijing, China, during the 2017–2018 and 2018–2019 influenza seasons - Baiyi Liu; Yue Wang; Yafen Liu; Yuanyuan Chen; Yisi Liu; Xu Cong; Ying Ji; Yan Gao (Archives of Virology, 2021)

Inception residual attention network for remote sensing image super-resolution - Pengcheng Lei; Cong Liu (International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2020)

A New Species of Spongilla (Porifera, Demospongiae) from a Karst Lake in Ha Long Bay (Vietnam) - Barbara Calcinai; Carlo Cerrano; Laura Núñez-Pons; Maurizio Pansini; Do Cong Thung; Marco Bertolino (Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2020)
Cahong in Ha Long Bay (Vietnam) is a small lake with a reduced, invisible connection with the open sea. The water column conditions locally experience notable fluctuations across the year, mostly driven by biannual monsoon seasons. Salinity, temperature, and pH often reach extreme values, unsustainable for the majority of the marine fauna. Therefore, the biodiversity of the benthic macrofauna in this peculiar habitat is remarkably low. In particular, a single sponge species new to science was found solely populating this characteristic brackish lake during our last survey in August 2018. Spongilla manconiae sp. nov. is a new Porifera species described here. It belongs to an exclusively freshwater taxon and seems to have acquired adaptive traits to tolerate extreme peaks of temperature and salinity. The mitochondrial Cytochrome C Oxidase subunit 1 (COI) and the nuclear Internal Transcribed Spacers 1 and 2 (ITSs) gene markers were used for barcoding tagging and phylogenetic analyses. The new species revealed large genetic distances and separate clustering in the tree topology, with respect to other reference spongillid sequences from various geographic areas. The study provides evidence for an urgency to protect these unique marine lake systems because they represent rare, fluctuant, fragile habitats that may speed up speciation processes.

Tuberculosis relapse is more common than reinfection in Beijing, China - Yi Liu; Xu Xia Zhang; Jia Jia Yu; Chen Liang; Qing Xing; Cong Yao; Chuan You Li (Infectious Diseases, 2020)

Determination of Landscape Ecological Network of Wetlands in the Yellow River Delta - Pifu Cong; Kexin Chen; Limei Qu; Jianbo Han; Zhengxian Yang (Wetlands, 2020)

A novel, validated, and plant height-independent QTL for spike extension length is associated with yield-related traits in wheat - Cong Li; Huaping Tang; Wei Luo; Xuemei Zhang; Yang Mu; Mei Deng; Yaxi Liu; Qiantao Jiang; Guoyue Chen; Jirui Wang; Pengfei Qi; Zhien Pu; et al. (Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2020)

Heterosis-associated genes confer high yield in super hybrid rice - Tianzi Lin; Cong Zhou; Gaoming Chen; Jun Yu; Wei Wu; Yuwei Ge; Xiaolan Liu; Jin Li; Xingzhou Jiang; Weijie Tang; Yunlu Tian; Zhigang Zhao; et al. (Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2020)
Key message Heterosis QTLs, including qSS7 and qHD8, with dominance effects were identified through GBS and large-scale phenotyping of CSSLs and hybrid F 1 populations in a paddy field. Abstract Heterosis has contributed immensely to agricultural production, but its genetic basis is unclear. We evaluated dominance effects by creating two hybrid populations: a B-homo set with a homozygous background and heterozygous chromosomal segments and a B-heter set with a heterozygous background and homozygous segments. This was achieved by crossing a set of 156 backcrossed-derived chromosome segment substitution lines (CSSLs) with their recurrent parent (9311), the male parent of the first super-high-yield hybrid Liangyoupei9 (LYP9), and with the female parent (PA64s) of the hybrid. The CSSLs were subjected to a genotyping-by-sequencing analysis to develop a genetic map of segments introduced from the PA64s. We evaluated the heterotic effects on eight yield-related traits in the hybrid variety and F 1 populations in large-scale field experiments over 2 years. Using a linkage map consisting of high-density SNPs, we identified heterosis-associated genes in LYP9. Five candidate genes contributed to the high yield of LYP9, with qSS7 and qHD8 repeatedly detected in both B-hybrid populations. The heterozygous segments harboring qSS7 and qHD8 showed dominance effects that contributed to the heterosis of yield components in the hybrid rice variety Liangyoupei9.

ADP-ribosylation factors improve biomass yield and salinity tolerance in transgenic switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) - Cong Guan; Xue Li; Dan-Yang Tian; Hua-Yue Liu; Hui-Fang Cen; Million Tadege; Yun-Wei Zhang (Plant Cell Reports, 2020)

Genome-wide analysis of chloride channel-encoding gene family members and identification of CLC genes that respond to Cl−/salt stress in upland cotton - Xun Liu; Boyi Pi; Jianwei Pu; Cong Cheng; Jiajia Fang; Bingjun Yu (Molecular Biology Reports, 2020)

LncRNA LEF1-AS1 promotes osteogenic differentiation of dental pulp stem cells via sponging miR-24-3p - Yuexia Wu; Keqian Lian; Cong Sun (Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, 2020)

Non-coding RNAS and colorectal cancer liver metastasis - Xiao-Yu Zhou; Bing Luo; Ze-Kun Jiang; Ying-Kang Xie; Feng-Cong Wu; Jiong-Qiang Huang; Jing-Song Chen (Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, 2020)

Self-evoluting framework of deep convolutional neural network for multilocus protein subcellular localization - Hanhan Cong; Hong Liu; Yuehui Chen; Yi Cao (Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, 2020)

Increased Surface Broadband Emissivity Driven by Denser Vegetation on the Tibetan Plateau Grassland Area - Yaojie Liu; Yangjian Zhang; Ke Huang; Jiaxing Zu; Ning Chen; Nan Cong (Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing, 2020)

Evaluation of crustal inhomogeneity parameters in the southern Longmenshan fault zone and adjacent regions - Xiao-Ping Fan; Yi-Cheng He; Cong-Jie Yang; Jun-Fei Wang (Journal of Seismology, 2020)
Broadband teleseismic waveform data from 13 earthquakes recorded by 70 digital seismic stations were selected to evaluate the inhomogeneity parameters of the crustal medium in the southern Longmenshan fault zone and its adjacent regions using the teleseismic fluctuation wavefield method. Results show that a strong inhomogeneity exists beneath the study region, which can be divided into three blocks according to its structure and tectonic deformation features. These are known as the Sichuan-Qinghai Block, the Sichuan-Yunnan Block, and the Mid-Sichuan Block. The velocity fluctuation ratios of the three blocks are approximately 5.1%, 3.6%, and 5.1% in the upper crust and 5.1%, 3.8%, and 4.9% in the lower crust. The inhomogeneity correlation lengths of the three blocks are about 10.1 km, 14.0 km, and 10.7 km in the upper crust and 11.8 km, 17.0 km, and 11.8 km in the lower crust. The differences in the crustal medium inhomogeneity beneath the Sichuan-Yunnan Block, the Sichuan-Qinghai Block, and the Mid-Sichuan Block may be related to intensive tectonic movement and material flow in the crust and upper mantle.

SUMOylation of Pdia3 exacerbates proinsulin misfolding and ER stress in pancreatic beta cells - Na Li; Xi Luo; Qilin Yu; Ping Yang; Zhishui Chen; Xinqiang Wang; Jipin Jiang; Jing Xu; Quan Gong; Decio L. Eizirik; Zhiguang Zhou; Jiajun Zhao; et al. (Journal of Molecular Medicine, 2020)

Synthesis of Carbon Dots by Varying Doped Elements and Application in Serine Detection - Yingying Hu; Rentian Guan; Xiaodong Shao; Cong Zhang; Xiaoyu Fan; Shuai Zhang; Min Hong; Qiaoli Yue (Journal of Fluorescence, 2020)

Design and Characterization of a Novel Hybrid Antimicrobial Peptide OM19R Based on Oncocin and MDAP-2 - Lei Liu; Jie Liu; Qi Cui; Bo-Yan Jia; Zhi-Hua Pei; Kokou Ayefounin Odah; Yi-Ming Wang; Wen-Long Dong; Ling-Cong Kong; Hong-Xia Ma (International Journal of Peptide Research and Therapeutics, 2020)

RamA, a transcriptional regulator conferring florfenicol resistance in Leclercia adecarboxylata R25 - Cong Cheng; Yuanyuan Ying; Danying Zhou; Licheng Zhu; Junwan Lu; Aifang Li; Qiyu Bao; Mei Zhu (Folia Microbiologica, 2020)
Due to the inappropriate use of florfenicol in agricultural practice, florfenicol resistance has become increasingly serious. In this work, we studied the novel florfenicol resistance mechanism of an animal-derived Leclercia adecarboxylata strain R25 with high-level florfenicol resistance. A random genomic DNA library was constructed to screen the novel florfenicol resistance gene. Gene cloning, gene knockout, and complementation combined with the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) detection were conducted to determine the function of the resistance-related gene. Sequencing and bioinformatics methods were applied to analyze the structure of the resistance gene-related sequences. Finally, we obtained a regulatory gene of an RND (resistance-nodulation-cell division) system, ramA , that confers resistance to florfenicol and other antibiotics. The ramA -deleted variant (LA-R25Δ ramA ) decreased the level of resistance against florfenicol and several other antibiotics, while a ramA -complemented strain (pUCP24-prom- ramA/ LA-R25Δ ramA ) restored the drug resistance. The whole-genome sequencing revealed that there were five RND efflux pump genes ( mdtABC , acrAB , acrD , acrEF , and acrAB -like) encoded over the chromosome, and ramA located upstream of the acrAB -like genes. The results of this work suggest that ramA confers resistance to florfenicol and other structurally unrelated antibiotics, presumably by regulating the RND efflux pump genes in L. adecarboxylata R25.

Two novel recombinant avian leukosis virus isolates from Luxi gamecock chickens - Peikun Wang; Jianrui Niu; Cong Xue; Zhaoqing Han; Amro Abdelazez; Zhang Xinglin (Archives of Virology, 2020)

Time-reverse location of microseismic sources in viscoelastic orthotropic anisotropic medium based on attenuation compensation - Tang Jie; Liu Ying-Chang; Wen Lei; Li Cong (Applied Geophysics, 2020)

Use of QSAR and SSD methods on deriving predicted no-effect concentrations in seawater and sediment for ten individual parent- and alkyl-PAHs and a case study on the assessment of their ecological risks from the Dalian Bay, China - Ying Wang; Xing Liu; Yi Cong; Jin Fei; Juying Wang; Dian Zhang; Liang Liu; Jingli Mu; Ziwei Yao (Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2020)

Numerical and Experimental Study of Flow Field between the Main Hull and Demi-Hull of a Trimaran - Cong Sun; Chunyu Guo; Chao Wang; Lianzhou Wang; Jianfeng Lin (Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2020)
The interactions between the main hull and demi-hull of trimarans have been arousing increasing attention, and detailed circumferential flow fields greatly influence trimaran research. In this research, the unsteady wake flow field of a trimaran was obtained by Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations on the basis of the viscous flow principles with consideration of the heaving and pitching of the trimaran. Then, we designed an experimental method based on particle-image velocimetry (PIV) and obtained a detailed flow field between the main hull and demi-hull of the trimaran. A trimaran model with one demi-hull made of polycarbonate material with 90% light transmission rate and a refractive index 1.58 (close to that of water 1.33) was manufactured as the experiment sample. Using polycarbonate material, the laser-sheet light-source transmission and high-speed camera recording problems were effectively rectified. Moreover, a nonstandard calibration was added into the PIV flow field measurement system. Then, we established an inverse three-dimensional (3D) distortion coordinate system and obtained the corresponding coordinates by using optics calculations. Further, the PIV system spatial mapping was corrected, and the real flow field was obtained. The simulation results were highly consistent with the experimental data, which showed the methods established in this study provided a strong reference for obtaining the detailed flow field information between the main hull and demi-hull of trimarans.

A C‐type lectin with antibacterial activity in weather loach, Misgurnus anguillicaudatus - Xiao‐Wen Zhang; Cong‐Hui Yang; Hong‐Quan Zhang; Xin‐Tong Pan; Ze‐Yu Jin; Hong‐Wei Zhang; Xiao‐Hua Xia (Journal of Fish Diseases, 2020)
C‐type lectins are carbohydrate‐binding proteins that play important roles in immunity by serving as pattern recognition receptors. In the present study, a novel nattectin‐like C‐type lectin was obtained from the weather loach, Misgurnus anguillicaudatus , designated as MaCTL. MaCTL encodes a peptide with 165 amino acids, with a signal peptide and a single C‐type lectin domain (CTLD), containing a galactose‐specific QPD motif and a conserved Ca 2+ ‐binding site. Transcripts of MaCTL were significantly upregulated after immune challenge with its pathogen A. hydrophila . In vitro assays with recombinant MaCTL protein revealed that it exhibited hemagglutinating and bacterial agglutinating activities, in a Ca 2+ ‐dependent manner. MaCTL was found to bind to a wide range of bacteria, as well as bind to bacterial polysaccharides LPS and PGN. Moreover, MaCTL displayed antimicrobial activity by inhibiting the growth of bacteria. These results collectively suggest that MaCTL is involved in the antibacterial defence of weather loach.

A novel thermophilic anaerobic granular sludge membrane distillation bioreactor for wastewater reclamation - Chinh Cong Duong; Shiao-Shing Chen; Huy Quang Le; Hau-Ming Chang; Nguyen Cong Nguyen; Dan Thanh Ngoc Cao; I-Chieh Chien (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020)

Effects of ferric and manganese precursors on catalytic activity of Fe-Mn/TiO2 catalysts for selective reduction of NO with ammonia at low temperature - Huan Du; Zhitao Han; Qimeng Wang; Yu Gao; Cong Gao; Jingming Dong; Xinxiang Pan (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020)

Accelerated remediation of organochlorine pesticide-contaminated soils with phyto-Fenton approach: a field study - Trinh Dinh Tran; Nhung Thi Dao; Rei Sasaki; Minh Binh Tu; Giang Huong Minh Dang; Han Gia Nguyen; Hieu Minh Dang; Cong Huu Vo; Yoshihiko Inigaki; Noi Van Nguyen; Yutaka Sakakibara (Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 2020)

Sustaining Attention for a Prolonged Duration Affects Dynamic Organizations of Frequency-Specific Functional Connectivity - Jia Liu; Yongjie Zhu; Hongjin Sun; Tapani Ristaniemi; Fengyu Cong (Brain Topography, 2020)
Sustained attention encompasses a cascade of fundamental functions. The human ability to implement a sustained attention task is supported by brain networks that dynamically formed and dissolved through oscillatory synchronization. The decrement of vigilance induced by prolonged task engagement affects sustained attention. However, little is known about which stage or combinations are affected by vigilance decrement. Here, we applied an analysis framework composed of weighted phase lag index (wPLI) and tensor component analysis (TCA) to an EEG dataset collected during 80 min sustained attention task to examine the electrophysiological basis of such effect. We aimed to characterize the phase-coupling networks to untangle different phases involved in sustained attention and study how they are modulated by vigilance decrement. We computed the time–frequency domain wPLI from each block and subject and constructed a fourth-order tensor, containing the time, frequency, functional connectivity (FC), and blocks × subjects. This tensor was subjected to the TCA to identify the interacted and low-dimensional components representing the frequency-specific dynamic FC (fdFC). We extracted four types of neuromakers during a sustained attention task, namely the pre-stimulus alpha right-lateralized parieto-occipital FC, the post-stimulus theta fronto-parieto-occipital FC, delta fronto-parieto-occipital FC, and beta right/left sensorimotor FCs. All these fdFCs were impaired by vigilance decrement. These fdFCs, except for the beta left sensorimotor network, were restored by rewards, although the restoration by reward in the beta right sensorimotor network was transient. These findings provide implications for dissociable effects of vigilance decrement on sustained attention by utilizing the tensor-based framework.

Enhancement of S-adenosylmethionine production by deleting thrB gene and overexpressing SAM2 gene in Bacillus amyloliquefaciens - Cong Jiang; Liying Ruan; Xuetuan Wei; Ailing Guo (Biotechnology Letters, 2020)

Reduced nitrification by biochar and/or nitrification inhibitor is closely linked with the abundance of comammox Nitrospira in a highly acidic sugarcane soil - Shuang Li; Diwen Chen; Cong Wang; Dan Chen; Qing Wang (Biology and Fertility of Soils, 2020)

Effects of tidal currents on winter wind waves in the Qiongzhou Strait: a numerical study - Peng Bai; Zheng Ling; Cong Liu; Junshan Wu; Lingling Xie (Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2020)

Quorum sensing regulates ‘swim‐or‐stick’ lifestyle in the phycosphere - Cong Fei; Michael A. Ochsenkühn; Ahmed A. Shibl; Ashley Isaac; Changhai Wang; Shady A. Amin (Environmental Microbiology, 2020)
Summary Interactions between phytoplankton and bacteria play major roles in global biogeochemical cycles and oceanic nutrient fluxes. These interactions occur in the microenvironment surrounding phytoplankton cells, known as the phycosphere. Bacteria in the phycosphere use either chemotaxis or attachment to benefit from algal excretions. Both processes are regulated by quorum sensing (QS), a cell–cell signalling mechanism that uses small infochemicals to coordinate bacterial gene expression. However, the role of QS in regulating bacterial attachment in the phycosphere is not clear. Here, we isolated a Sulfitobacter pseudonitzschiae F5 and a Phaeobacter sp. F10 belonging to the marine Roseobacter group and an Alteromonas macleodii F12 belonging to Alteromonadaceae, from the microbial community of the ubiquitous diatom Asterionellopsis glacialis. We show that only the Roseobacter group isolates (diatom symbionts) can attach to diatom transparent exopolymeric particles. Despite all three bacteria possessing genes involved in motility, chemotaxis, and attachment, only S. pseudonitzschiae F5 and Phaeobacter sp. F10 possessed complete QS systems and could synthesize QS signals. Using UHPLC–MS/MS, we identified three QS molecules produced by both bacteria of which only 3‐oxo‐C 16:1 ‐HSL strongly inhibited bacterial motility and stimulated attachment in the phycosphere. These findings suggest that QS signals enable colonization of the phycosphere by algal symbionts.

Transgenic microalgae as bioreactors - Zhi-Cong Liang; Ming-Hua Liang; Jian-Guo Jiang (Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, 2020)

Early Paleozoic mantle evolution of East Kunlun Orogenic Belt in Qinghai, NW China: evidence from the geochemistry and geochronology of the Late Ordovician to Late Silurian mafic-ultramafic rocks in the Qimantag region - Xue-Peng Duan; Fan-Cong Meng; Li-Hui Jia (International Geology Review, 2020)

One new sterpurane sesquiterpene from cultures of the basidiomycete Pholiota nameko - Wan-Rong Niu; Cong-Liang Guo; Deng-Ji Lou; Rui-Ting Li; Qiao Xiang; Yu-Lin Zou; Xiu-Ming Cui; Xiao-Yan Yang (Natural Product Research, 2020)

Low Serum Uric Acid Levels Promote Hypertensive Intracerebral Hemorrhage by Disrupting the Smooth Muscle Cell-Elastin Contractile Unit and Upregulating the Erk1/2-MMP Axis - Ning Xiao; Tian-long Liu; Hao Li; Hao-chen Xu; Jing Ge; Hong-yan Wen; Cong-xia Bai; Li Song; Ying-ying Sun; Yin-hui Zhang; Ru-tai Hui; Wei-hua Song; et al. (Translational Stroke Research, 2020)

China’s intercropping leads to higher grain yield gains - Wen-Feng Cong (Science China Life Sciences, 2020)

Genome-wide transcriptome and proteome profiles indicate an active role of alternative splicing during de-etiolation of maize seedlings - Zhen Yan; Zhuo Shen; Zhe Li; Qing Chao; Lei Kong; Zhi-Fang Gao; Qing-Wei Li; Hai-Yan Zheng; Cai-Feng Zhao; Cong-Ming Lu; Ying-Wei Wang; Bai-Chen Wang (Planta, 2020)

Water sources of major plant species along a strong climatic gradient in the inland Heihe River Basin - Liangju Zhao; Cong Xie; Xiaohong Liu; Ninglian Wang; Zhang Yu; Xiying Dong; Lixin Wang (Plant and Soil, 2020)

ClPLD5, a phospholipase gene is involved in protection of cytoskeleton stability in pollen of self-imcompatible ‘Xiangshui’ lemon (Citrus limon) - Wei Lin; Minhphu Do; Mi Wei; Xinhua He; Yuan Liu; Zhiyi Fan; Shuwei Zhang; Cong Luo; Guixiang Huang; Guibing Hu (Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC), 2020)

Overexpression of the mango MiCO gene delayed flowering time in transgenic Arabidopsis - Yuan Liu; Cong Luo; Xiu-Juan Zhang; Xin-Xi Lu; Hai-Xia Yu; Xiao-Jie Xie; Zhi-Yi Fan; Xiao Mo; Xin-Hua He (Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC), 2020)

Exploring slope spatial heterogeneity by nitrogen transfer and arbuscular mycorrhizal community - Yanyan Yu; Lu Zhao; Min Cui; Yutong Xiao; Cong Wang; Yuan Miao; Zhijie Chen; Yanhong Cao; Junqiang Zheng; Shijie Han (Journal of Soils and Sediments, 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)

Identification of salt-responsive genes using transcriptome analysis in Dunaliella viridis - Zhenyu Xing; Xiangnan Gao; Mingfang Wang; Yuting Cong; Xiaojie Chai (Journal of Applied Phycology, 2020)

A Risk Assessment Method for Metro Shield Tunnel Construction Based on Interval Number - Yeqin Zhang; Jiaming Zhang; Hailin Guo; Yang Zhou; Guofu Ma; Cong Wang (Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, 2020)

Application of progressive freezing on forward osmosis draw solute recovery - Huy Quang Le; Thi Xuan Quynh Nguyen; Shiao-Shing Chen; Chinh Cong Duong; Thanh Ngoc-Dan Cao; Hau-Ming Chang; Saikat Sinha Ray; Nguyen Cong Nguyen (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020)

Variations and Potential Factors of Gut Prokaryotic Microbiome During Spawning Migration in Coilia nasus - Cong-ping Ying; Min Jiang; Lei You; Jin-hao Tan; Yan-ping Yang; Yin-ping Wang; Kai Liu (Current Microbiology, 2020)

Sodium Para-aminosalicylic Acid Reverses Changes of Glutamate Turnover in Manganese-Exposed Rats - Zhao-Cong Li; Fang Wang; Shao-Jun Li; Lin Zhao; Jun-Yan Li; Yue Deng; Xiao-Juan Zhu; Yu-Wen Zhang; Dong-Jie Peng; Yue-Ming Jiang (Biological Trace Element Research, 2020)

Model test of the stability degradation of a prestressed anchored rock slope system in a corrosive environment - Cong Li; Rong-tang Zhang; Jie-bing Zhu; Zhi-jun Liu; Bo Lu; Bin Wang; Yu-zhou Jiang; Jie-sheng Liu; Ping Zeng (Journal of Mountain Science, 2020)

1H NMR Quantification of DHA and EPA in Fish Oil - Jinxiao Lv; Cong Wang; Xiuli Zhang; Zhihua Lv; Mingming Yu (Journal of Ocean University of China, 2020)

Study on the Geo-Environmental Evolution of the Laolonggou Lagoon Under the Impacts of the Caofeidian Reclamation Project in Hebei Province - Cong Yin; Siyuan Ye; Xiuli Feng; Yanhong Yin (Journal of Ocean University of China, 2020)

Petrological characteristics of lithospheric mantle beneath Nui Nua and Ba Ria areas, southern Vietnam - Cong Nguyen; Youngwoo Kil (Geosciences Journal, 2020)

Molecular characterization of an emerging reassortant mammalian orthoreovirus in China - Dandan Ye; Zhaoyang Ji; Hongyan Shi; Jianfei Chen; Da Shi; Liyan Cao; Jianbo Liu; Mingwei Li; Hui Dong; Zhaoyang Jing; Xiaobo Wang; Qiuge Liu; et al. (Archives of Virology, 2020)

Effects of dietary Lactobacillus plantarum C20015 on growth, immunity, and disease resistance in koi carp - Hai-peng Zhang; Wen-long Dong; Long Chen; Yi-ming Wang; Inam Muhammad; An-qi Ju; Xiao-feng Shan; Hong-xia Ma; Ling-cong Kong (Aquaculture International, 2020)

Description of Erythrobacter mangrovi sp. nov., an aerobic bacterium from rhizosphere soil of mangrove plant (Kandelia candel) - Yang-Hui Ye; Nusratgul Anwar; Maripat Xamxidin; Ran Zhang; Cen Yan; Yan-Fang Nie; Zhe Zhao; Cong Sun; Min Wu (Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, 2020)

Ultrastructural changes of Haematococcus pluvialis (Chlorophyta) in process of astaxanthin accumulation and cell damage under condition of high light with acetate - Bangxiang He; Lulu Hou; Feng Zhang; Xiaomei Cong; Zhendong Wang; Yalin Guo; Jiawei Shi; Ming Jiang; Xuecheng Zhang; Xiaonan Zang (Algae, 2020)

Dominant complementary interaction between OsC1 and two tightly linked genes, Rb1 and Rb2, controls the purple leaf sheath in rice - Wei Hu; Tianhao Zhou; Zhongmin Han; Cong Tan; Yongzhong Xing (Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2020)

Joint PP and PS Pre-stack Seismic Inversion for Stratified Models Based on the Propagator Matrix Forward Engine - Cong Luo; Jing Ba; José M. Carcione; Guangtan Huang; Qiang Guo (Surveys in Geophysics, 2020)

Evidence of constraint in the 3D genome for trans-splicing in human cells - Cong Liu; Yiqun Zhang; Xiaoli Li; Yan Jia; Feifei Li; Jing Li; Zhihua Zhang (Science China Life Sciences, 2020)

A novel, major, and validated QTL for the effective tiller number located on chromosome arm 1BL in bread wheat - Jiajun Liu; Huaping Tang; Xiangru Qu; Hang Liu; Cong Li; Yang Tu; Shuiqing Li; Ahsan Habib; Yang Mu; Shoufeng Dai; Mei Deng; Qiantao Jiang; et al. (Plant Molecular Biology, 2020)

Fully multi-target segmentation for breast ultrasound image based on fully convolutional network - Yingtao Zhang; Yan Liu; Hengda Cheng; Ziyao Li; Cong Liu (Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, 2020)

Aggregation behavior of juvenile Neptunea cumingii and effects on seed production - Zhenglin Yu; Zhi Hu; Hao Song; Tao Xu; Meijie Yang; Cong Zhou; Tao Zhang (Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2020)

The role of oceanic feedbacks in the 2014–2016 El Niño events as derived from ocean reanalysis data - Cong Guan; Fan Wang; Shijian Hu (Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2020)

The genetic diversity of group-1 homoeologs and characterization of novel LMW-GS genes from Chinese Xinjiang winter wheat landraces (Triticum aestivum L.) - Xinkun Hu; Shoufen Dai; Yongliang Yan; Yaxi Liu; Jinbo Zhang; Zifeng Lu; Yuming Wei; Youliang Zheng; Hua Cong; Zehong Yan (Journal of Applied Genetics, 2020)

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Knockdown of long non-coding RNA TUG1 depresses apoptosis of hippocampal neurons in Alzheimer’s disease by elevating microRNA-15a and repressing ROCK1 expression - Xia Li; Sheng-Wu Wang; Xi-Ling LI; Feng-Yuan Yu; Hai-Ming Cong (Inflammation Research, 2020)

Characterization of bimetallic Fe/Ni nanoparticles supported by amphiphilic block copolymer and its application in removal of 1,1,1-trichloroethane in water - Kai Huang; Hao Bian; Meng Zhang; Cong Zhan; Can Li; Wei Zhang; Changzheng Cui; Qiang Lu; Kuangfei Lin; Jianhua Zhao (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020)

Optimising the measurement of peracetic acid to assess its degradation during drinking water disinfection - Kejia Zhang; Yulong San; Cong Cao; Tuqiao Zhang; Cheng Cen; Xinyan Zhou (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020)

Levels of 226Ra in groundwater samples collected in Phu Yen province, Vietnam associated with health risks to local population and impacts on the maize (Zea mays L.) soil - Van Thang Nguyen; Nguyen Phong Thu Huynh; Cong Hao Le (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020)

Relationship between the characterization of natural colloids and metal elements in surface waters - Caixia Yan; Yanru Sheng; Min Ju; Cong Ding; Qian Li; Ziwei Luo; Mingjun Ding; Minghua Nie (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020)

Membrane Distillation for Strategic Water Treatment Applications: Opportunities, Challenges, and Current Status - Hung Cong Duong; Ashley Joy Ansari; Ruth Habte Hailemariam; Yun Chul Woo; Thao Manh Pham; Lan Thi Ngo; Duong Thanh Dao; Long Duc Nghiem (Current Pollution Reports, 2020)

Complete genome analysis of a Staphylococcus aureus phage (vBSM-A1) - Huijun Geng; Meixia Zhang; Xiaoyu Li; Lili Wang; Cong Cong; Huijing Cui; Linhui Wang; Yongping Xu (Archives of Microbiology, 2020)

Permeability-enhanced rate model for coal permeability evolution and its application under various triaxial stress conditions - Jing Xie; Mingzhong Gao; Junjun Liu; Cong Li; Gaoyou Peng (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2020)