Efficacy and safety between early use and late use of celecoxib in hip osteoarthritis patients who receive total hip arthroplasty: a randomized, controlled study - Chunxue Pu; Xue Jiang; Yuanxin Sun; Hui Lin; Shaochen Li (Inflammopharmacology, 2021)

Predicting circRNA-Disease Associations Based on Deep Matrix Factorization with Multi-source Fusion - Guobo Xie; Hui Chen; Yuping Sun; Guosheng Gu; Zhiyi Lin; Weiming Wang; Jianming Li (Interdisciplinary Sciences: Computational Life Sciences, 2021)

Driving forces for recovery of forest vegetation after harvesting a subalpine oak forest in eastern Tibetan Plateau - Qinli Xiong; Lingjuan Li; Xiaojin Luo; Xingjin He; Lin Zhang; Kaiwen Pan; Chenggang Liu; Hui Sun (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

Citric acid and AMF inoculation combination–assisted phytoextraction of vanadium (V) by Medicago sativa in V mining contaminated soil - Lang Qiu; Wenlong Gao; Zhigang Wang; Baoqin Li; Weimin Sun; Pin Gao; Xiaoxu Sun; Benru Song; Yanxu Zhang; Tianle Kong; Hanzhi Lin (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

Energy dissipation and fatigue damage evolution of sandstone under different upper limit stresses - Yidan Sun; Zhiwei Lin; Yu Yang (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2021)

On the Diurnal Cycle of Heavy Rainfall over the Sichuan Basin during 10–18 August 2020 - Rudi Xia; Yali Luo; Da-Lin Zhang; Mingxin Li; Xinghua Bao; Jisong Sun (Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 2021)
A sustained heavy rainfall event occurred over the Sichuan basin in southwest China during 10–18 August 2020, showing pronounced diurnal rainfall variations with nighttime peak and afternoon minimum values, except on the first day. Results show that the westward extension of the anomalously strong western Pacific subtropical high was conducive to the maintenance of a southerly low-level jet (LLJ) in and to the southeast of the basin, which favored continuous water vapor transport and abnormally high precipitable water in the basin. The diurnal cycle of rainfall over the basin was closely related to the periodic oscillation of the LLJ in both wind speed and direction that was caused by the combination of inertial oscillation and terrain thermal forcing. The nocturnally enhanced rainfall was produced by moist convection mostly initiated during the evening hours over the southwest part of the basin where high convective available potential energy with moister near-surface moist air was present. The convective initiation took place as cold air from either previous precipitating clouds from the western Sichuan Plateau or a larger-scale northerly flow met a warm and humid current from the south. It was the slantwise lifting of the warm, moist airflow above the cold air, often facilitated by southwest vortices and quasi-geostrophic ascent, that released the convective instability and produced heavy rainfall.

Physical and Numerical Investigations on Wave Run-Up and Dissipation under Breakwater with Fence Revetment - Enjin Zhao; Lin Mu; Zhaoyang Hu; Xinqiang Wang; Junkai Sun; Zhiyong Zhang (Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2021)
Revetment elements and protective facilities on a breakwater can effectively weaken the impact of waves. In order to resist storm surges, there is a plan to build a breakwater on the northern shore of Meizhou Bay in Putian City, China. To better design it, considering different environmental conditions, physical and numerical experiments were carried out to accurately study the effects of the breakwater and its auxiliary structures on wave propagation. In the experiments, the influence of the wave type, initial water depth, and the structure of the fence plate are considered. The wave run-up and dissipation, the wave overtopping volume, and the structure stability are analyzed. The results indicate that the breakwater can effectively resist the wave impact, reduce the wave run-up and overtopping, and protect the rear buildings. In addition, under the same still water depth and significant wave height, the amount of overtopped water under regular waves is larger than that under irregular waves. With the increase of the still water depth and significant wave height, the overtopped water increases, which means that when the storm surge occurs, damage on the breakwater under the high tide level is greater than that under the low tide level. Besides, the fence plate can effectively dissipate energy and reduce the overtopping volume by generating eddy current in the cavity. Considering the stability and the energy dissipation capacity of the fence plate, it is suggested that a gap ratio of 50% is reasonable.

Characterization and identification of SFDC ‐1, a novel AmpC ‐type β‐lactamase in Serratia fonticola - Xu Dong; Peiyao Zhang; Kexin Zhou; Jialei Liang; Qiaoling Li; Xueya Zhang; Danying Zhou; Wei Lu; Zhewei Sun; Hongmao Liu; Junwan Lu; Xi Lin; et al. (Environmental Microbiology, 2021)
Summary The clinical and environmental infections caused by AmpC β‐lactamases have been increasingly reported recently. In this study, we characterize the novel chromosome‐encoded AmpC β‐lactamase SFDC‐1 identified in Serratia fonticola strain R28, which was isolated from a rabbit raised on a farm in southern China. SFDC‐1 shared the highest amino acid identity of 79.6% with the functionally characterized AmpC β‐lactamase gene bla YRC‐1 , although it had highly homologous functionally uncharacterized relatives in the same species from different sources, including some of the clinical significance. The cloned bla SFDC‐1 exhibited resistance to a broad spectrum of β‐lactam antibiotics, including most cephalosporins with the highest resistance to ampicillin, cefazolin and ceftazidime, with increased MIC levels ≥128‐fold compared with the control strains. The purified SFDC‐1 showed catalytic activities against β‐lactams with the highest catalytic activity to cefazolin. The genetic context of bla SFDC‐1 and its relatives was conserved in the chromosome, and no mobile genetic elements were found surrounding them.

Two new diterpenoids with their antiproliferative activities from the supercritical fluid extraction of Croton crassifolius root - Chao Liu; Rui-rui Zhang; Qing-lin Niu; Jing Zhang; Mu-xuan Wang; Na-na Meng; Qing Wang; Jin-yue Sun; Wen-liang Wang (Natural Product Research, 2021)

Phenolic glycosides and flavonoids with antioxidant and anticancer activities from Desmodium caudatum - Qian-Nan Xu; Dan Zhu; Guang-Hui Wang; Ting Lin; Cui-Ling Sun; Rong Ding; Wen-Jing Tian; Hai-Feng Chen (Natural Product Research, 2021)

A New Instrumental Array in Sichuan, China, to Monitor Vibrations and Perturbations of the Lithosphere, Atmosphere, and Ionosphere - Chieh-Hung Chen; Yang-Yi Sun; Kai Lin; Chen Zhou; Rui Xu; Haiyin Qing; Yongxin Gao; Tao Chen; Fei Wang; Huaizhong Yu; Peng Han; Chi-Chia Tang; et al. (Surveys in Geophysics, 2021)

The ER membrane protein complex subunit Emc3 controls angiogenesis via the FZD4/WNT signaling axis - Mu Yang; Shujin Li; Wenjing Liu; Xiao Li; Yunqi He; Yeming Yang; Kuanxiang Sun; Lin Zhang; Wanli Tian; Lixin Duan; Huafu Chen; Dezhong Yao; et al. (Science China Life Sciences, 2021)

A comparison of multiplatform wind products in the South China Sea during summer and autumn in 2019 - Yuxin Liu; Mingsen Lin; Xingwei Jiang; Xiujun Sun; Xiangzhou Song (Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2021)

Structure and variation of root-associated bacterial communities of Cyperus rotundus L. in the contaminated soils around Pb/Zn mine sites - Pin Gao; Benru Song; Rui Xu; Xiaoxu Sun; Hanzhi Lin; Fuqing Xu; Baoqin Li; Weimin Sun (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

Associations between air pollution exposure and birth defects: a time series analysis - Shu Sun; Qi Zhang; Xinmiao Sui; Liu Ding; Jie Liu; Mei Yang; Qihong Zhao; Chao Zhang; Jiahu Hao; Xiujun Zhang; Shilei Lin; Rui Ding; et al. (Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 2021)

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

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

Spatiotemporal change of vegetation coverage recovery and its driving factors in the Wenchuan earthquake-hit areas - Xiao-fei Sun; Lin-guo Yuan; Ying-zhi Zhou; Huai-yong Shao; Xian-feng Li; Ping Zhong (Journal of Mountain Science, 2021)

Aquimarina algicola sp. nov., isolated from the surface of a marine red alga - Xun-Ke Sun; Yan-Lin Zhong; Xu-Yang Chen; Guan-Jun Chen; Zong-Jun Du (Archives of Microbiology, 2021)

Decadal variation of thermocline-sea surface temperature feedback in the tropical Indian Ocean and the underlying mechanisms - Meiqi Zhang; Shuangwen Sun; Lin Liu; Yongcan Zu; Lin Feng (Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2021)

Fighting climate change: soil bacteria communities and topography play a role in plant colonization of desert areas - Xiao Sun; Jin Pei; Lei Zhao; Bashir Ahmad; Lin‐Fang Huang (Environmental Microbiology, 2021)
Summary Global warming has exacerbated desertification in arid regions. Exploring the environmental variables and microbial communities that drive the dynamics of geographic patterns of desert crops is important for large‐scale standardization of crops that can control desertification. Here, predictions based on future climate data from CMIP6 show that a steady expand in the suitable production areas for three desert plants ( Cistanche deserticola , Cynomorium songaricum and Cistanche salsa ) under global warming, demonstrating their high adaptability to future climate change. We examined the biogeography of three desert plant soil bacteria communities and assessed the environmental factors affecting the community assembly process. The α‐diversity significantly decreased along elevated latitudes, indicating that the soil bacterial communities of the three species have latitude diversity patterns. The neutral community model evaluated 66.6% of the explained variance of the bacterial community in the soil of desert plants and Modified Stochasticity Ratio Streptomyces eurythermus and OTU4672: Streptomyces flaveus ) drive the colonization of three desert plants. This research offers a promising solution for desert management in arid areas under global warming.

Leaf area index remote sensing based on Deep Belief Network supported by simulation data - Lin Sun; Weiyan Wang; Chen Jia; Xirong Liu (International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2021)

Late Cretaceous adakitic rocks from the western Tibetan Plateau: implications for the subduction of the Neo-Tethys Ocean - Wei Wang; Qing-Guo Zhai; Pei-Yuan Hu; Sun-Lin Chung; Yue Tang; Hai-Tao Wang; Zhi-Cai Zhu; Hao Wu; Zhi-Qiang Huang (International Geology Review, 2021)

Petrological and isotopic data from Eocene granites in the Luocang area, South Lhasa terrane, Tibet: implications for the India–Eurasia collision - J.-G. Gao; F. Ding; J.-Q. Lin; Q.-H. Zhu; Y. Sun; X.-G. Xie (Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2021)

How do different nitrogen application levels and irrigation practices impact biological nitrogen fixation and its distribution in paddy system? - Yanhui Zhang; Tianlong Hu; Hui Wang; Haiyang Jin; Qi Liu; Zhibin Lin; Benjuan Liu; Hongtao Liu; Zhe Chen; Xinwu Lin; Xiaojie Wang; Jing Ma; et al. (Plant and Soil, 2021)

Seagrass (Zostera marina) promotes nitrification potential and selects specific ammonia oxidizers in coastal sediments - Xianbiao Lin; Pengfei Zheng; Songbao Zou; Feifei Sun; Xiaoli Zhang; Jun Gong (Journal of Soils and Sediments, 2021)

Nuclear-localized eukaryotic translation initiation factor 1A is involved in mouse preimplantation embryo development - Yue Liu; Jiandong Sun; Yang Su; Jianmin Lin; Chengyu Lv; Kaien Mo; Songhua Xu; Shie Wang (Journal of Molecular Histology, 2021)

Synthesis of 3D graphene-based materials and their applications for removing dyes and heavy metals - Hefei Sun; Yan Lin; Hagio Takeshi; Xinze Wang; Deyi Wu; Yanqin Tian (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

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

Transcriptome Analysis Provides New Insights into Host Response to Hepatopancreatic Necrosis Disease in the Black Tiger Shrimp Penaeus monodon - Jichen Zhao; Xieyan Chen; Zihao He; Guoliang Chen; Zhaojian Lin; Yongkui Liu; Chengbo Sun; Wei Wang (Journal of Ocean University of China, 2021)

Identification of TYROBP and FCER1G as Key Genes with Prognostic Value in Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma by Bioinformatics Analysis - Licheng Wang; Yun Lin; Yi Yuan; Fei Liu; Kai Sun (Biochemical Genetics, 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)

Three-dimensional properties of mesoscale cyclonic warm-core and anticyclonic cold-core eddies in the South China Sea - Wenjin Sun; Yu Liu; Gengxin Chen; Wei Tan; Xiayan Lin; Yuping Guan; Changming Dong (Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2021)

Ambient climate determines the directional trend of community stability under warming and grazing - Peipei Liu; Wangwang Lv; Jianping Sun; Caiyun Luo; Zhenhua Zhang; Xiaoxue Zhu; Xingwu Lin; Jichuang Duan; Guangping Xu; Xiaofeng Chang; Yigang Hu; Qiaoyan Lin; et al. (Global Change Biology, 2021)
Changes in ecological processes over time in ambient treatments are often larger than the responses to manipulative treatments in climate change experiments. However, the impacts of human‐driven environmental changes on the stability of natural grasslands have been typically assessed by comparing differences between manipulative plots and reference plots. Little is known about whether or how ambient climate regulates the effects of manipulative treatments and their underlying mechanisms. We collected two datasets, one a 36‐year long‐term observational dataset from 1983 to 2018, and the other a 10‐year manipulative asymmetric warming and grazing experiment using infrared heaters with moderate grazing from 2006 to 2015 in an alpine meadow on the Tibetan Plateau. The 36‐year observational dataset shows that there was a nonlinear response of community stability to ambient temperature with a positive relationship between them due to an increase in ambient temperature in the first 25 years and then a decrease in ambient temperature thereafter. Warming and grazing decreased community stability with experiment duration through an increase in legume cover and a decrease in species asynchrony, which was due to the decreasing background temperature through time during the 10‐year experiment period. Moreover, the temperature sensitivity of community stability was higher under the ambient treatment than under the manipulative treatments. Therefore, our results suggested that ambient climate may control the directional trend of community stability while manipulative treatments may determine the temperature sensitivity of the response of community stability to climate relative to the ambient treatment. Our study emphasizes the importance of the context dependency of the response of community stability to human‐driven environmental changes.

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

MS1 is essential for male fertility by regulating the microsporocyte cell plate expansion in soybean - Xiaolong Fang; Xiaoyuan Sun; Xiangdong Yang; Qing Li; Chunjing Lin; Jie Xu; Wenjun Gong; Yifan Wang; Lu Liu; Limei Zhao; Baohui Liu; Jun Qin; et al. (Science China Life Sciences, 2021)

Climate change impacts on China’s marine ecosystems - Bin Kang; Gretta T. Pecl; Longshan Lin; Peng Sun; Peidong Zhang; Yuan Li; Linlin Zhao; Xin Peng; Yunrong Yan; Chunyan Shen; Wentao Niu (Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 2021)

Effects of Heat Stress on Gut Microbiome in Rats - Qian Qu; Hua Li; Lin Bai; Shiwei Zhang; Jiaqi Sun; Weijie Lv; Chunxin Ye; Cui Liu; Dayou Shi (Indian Journal of Microbiology, 2021)
Gut microbiome, as the largest and most important micro-ecosystem, plays a critical role in health. The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether heat stress modulates the composition and diversity of the gut microbiome in rats. The heat stress model was prepared in rats with the heating temperature maintained at 35–38°C. Cecum contents were collected after heat stress for 3 h and days 1, 3 and 7. Total DNA was extracted for 16 S rRNA sequencing and analysis of intestinal microbiome composition and diversity. The study showed that the composition of the intestinal microbiome of heat stress group was changed. And the heat stress modulated key phylotypes of gut microbiota at the level of phylum and genus. In particular, the genus of Lactobacillus and Bacteroides were significantly reduced, whereas the Oscillospira and Clostridium were increased by heat stress. Meanwhile, the rats under the heat stress encountered the change in carbohydrate metabolism, amino acid metabolism, and membrane transport to defense against stress. Taken together, the composition and structure of gut microbiome were affected by heat stress and some key phylotypes were also significantly altered. We conclude that the heat stress could impact multiple biological functions, via altering the gut microbiome.

Metagenomic analysis revealed the sulfur- and iron- oxidation capabilities of heterotrophic denitrifying sludge - Kailong Huang; Qiaoling Li; Haohao Sun; Xu-Xiang Zhang; Hongqiang Ren; Lin Ye (Ecotoxicology, 2021)

Antimicrobial Activity of Natural Plant Compound Carvacrol Against Soft Rot Disease Agent Dickeya zeae - Shangbo Jiang; Jingxin Zhang; Qiyun Yang; Dayuan Sun; Xiaoming Pu; Huifang Shen; Qiqin Li; Zhongwen Wang; Birun Lin (Current Microbiology, 2021)

Enhancing oil recovery through immiscible water-alternating-CO2 in tight oil formations—a case study of Yaoyingtai Field in China - Hua Liu; Lin Chen; Xiangfang Li; Hongya Wang; Zheng Sun (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2021)

Estimation and Long-term Trend Analysis of Surface Solar Radiation in Antarctica: A Case Study of Zhongshan Station - Zhaoliang Zeng; Zemin Wang; Minghu Ding; Xiangdong Zheng; Xiaoyu Sun; Wei Zhu; Kongju Zhu; Jiachun An; Lin Zang; Jianping Guo; Baojun Zhang (Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 2021)

Elevated pCO2 Impedes Succession of Phytoplankton Community From Diatoms to Dinoflagellates Along With Increased Abundance of Viruses and Bacteria - Ruiping Huang; Jiazhen Sun; Yunlan Yang; Xiaowen Jiang; Zhen Wang; Xue Song; Tifeng Wang; Di Zhang; He Li; Xiangqi Yi; Shouchang Chen; Nanou Bao; et al. (Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021)
Eutrophic coastal regions are highly productive and greatly influenced by human activities. Primary production supporting the coastal ecosystems is supposed to be affected by progressive ocean acidification driven by increasing CO 2 emissions. In order to investigate the effects of high p CO 2 (HC) on eutrophic plankton community structure and ecological functions, we employed 9 mesocosms and carried out an experiment under ambient (∼410 ppmv) and future high (1000 ppmv) atmospheric p CO 2 conditions, using in situ plankton community in Wuyuan Bay, East China Sea. Our results showed that HC along with natural seawater temperature rise significantly boosted biomass of diatoms with decreased abundance of dinoflagellates in the late stage of the experiment, demonstrating that HC repressed the succession from diatoms to dinoflagellates, a phenomenon observed during algal blooms in the East China Sea. HC did not significantly influence the primary production or biogenic silica contents of the phytoplankton assemblages. However, the HC treatments increased the abundance of viruses and heterotrophic bacteria, reflecting a refueling of nutrients for phytoplankton growth from virus-mediated cell lysis and bacterial degradation of organic matters. Conclusively, our results suggest that increasing CO 2 concentrations can modulate plankton structure including the succession of phytoplankton community and the abundance of viruses and bacteria in eutrophic coastal waters, which may lead to altered biogeochemical cycles of carbon and nutrients.

Epididymal initial segment-specific Cre recombinase activity in Lcn8-Cre knock-in mice - Qian-qian Gong; Zhi-lin Dou; Xiao Wang; Ke-yi Zhang; Hao Chen; Jian-gang Gao; Xiao-yang Sun (Molecular Biology Reports, 2021)

Root Defense in Salicylic Acid-Altering Arabidopsis Plants in Responses to Cadmium Stress - Qiyu Zhao; Chunxiu Gu; Yuehang Sun; Guangzhe Li; Lin-Lin Li; Lin Hao (Journal of Plant Growth Regulation, 2021)

Role of the microRNA-29 family in myocardial fibrosis - Changyan Li; Nan Wang; Peng Rao; Limeiting Wang; Di Lu; Lin Sun (Journal of Physiology and Biochemistry, 2021)

Conversion of rice husk into fermentable sugar and silica using acid-catalyzed ionic liquid pretreatment - YuJie Wang; Jing-yong Liu; Jian Sun; Sumarlin Shangdiar; Kassian T.T. Amesho; Yung-Chang Lin; Yen-Ping Peng; Ken-Lin Chang (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

Characteristics of bacterial community and ARGs profile in engineered goldfish tanks with stresses of sulfanilamide and copper - Benjamin Makimilua Tiimub; Zhen-chao Zhou; Lin Zhu; Yang Liu; Xin-Yi Shuai; Lan Xu; Christophe’ Niyungeko; Ling-Xuan Meng; Yu-Jie Sun; Hong Chen (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

Association between population density and infection rate suggests the importance of social distancing and travel restriction in reducing the COVID-19 pandemic - Heliang Yin; Tong Sun; Lan Yao; Yan Jiao; Li Ma; Lin Lin; J Carolyn Graff; Lotfi Aleya; Arnold Postlethwaite; Weikuan Gu; Hong Chen (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

Sensitive Techniques for POCT Sensing on the Residues of Pesticides and Veterinary Drugs in Food - Lin Liu; Yueying Gao; Jinghan Liu; Ying Li; Ziye Yin; Yuanyuan Zhang; Fuwei Pi; Xiulan Sun (Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 2021)

Current Progress on Antibiotic Sensing Based on Ratiometric Fluorescent Sensors - Jinghan Liu; Ying Li; Lin Liu; Yueying Gao; Yuanyuan Zhang; Ziye Yin; Fuwei Pi; Xiulan Sun (Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 2021)

Dietary inflammatory index and risk of colorectal adenoma: effect measure modification by race, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, cigarette smoking and body mass index? - Fangcheng Yuan; Lin Deng; Xiangqing Sun; Zhengyi Chen; Nitin Shivappa; Ashutosh K. Sheth; Gregory S. Cooper; James R. Hebert; Li Li (Cancer Causes & Control, 2021)

Abnormal brain activity patterns during spatial working memory task in patients with end-stage renal disease on maintenance hemodialysis: a fMRI study - Jinzhuang Huang; Lei Xie; Ruiwei Guo; Jinhong Wang; Jinquan Lin; Zongbo Sun; Shouxing Duan; Zhirong Lin; Hui Li; Shuhua Ma (Brain Imaging and Behavior, 2021)
Hemodialysis (HD) is associated with cognitive impairment in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). However, the neural mechanism of spatial working memory (SWM) impairment in HD-ESRD patients remains unclear. We investigated the abnormal alterations in SWM-associated brain activity patterns in HD-ESRD patients using blood oxygen level-dependent functional magnetic resonance imaging (BOLD-fMRI) technique during n-back tasks. Twenty-two HD-ESRD patients and 22 well-matched controls underwent an fMRI scan while undergoing a three-load n-back tasks with different difficulty levels. Cognitive and mental states were assessed using a battery of neuropsychologic tests. The HD-ESRD patients exhibited worse memory abilities than controls. Compared with the control group, the HD-ESRD patient group showed lower accuracy and longer response time under the n-back tasks, especially in the 2-back task. The patterns of brain activation changed under different working memory loads in the HD-ESRD patients, showing decreased activity in the right medial frontal gyrus and inferior frontal gyrus under 0-back and 1-back task, while more decreased activation in the bilateral frontal cortex, parietal lobule, anterior/posterior cingulate cortex and insula cortex under 2-back task. With the increase of task difficulty, the activation degree of the frontal and parietal cortex decreased. More importantly, we found that lower activation in frontal cortex and parietal lobule was associated with worse cognitive function in the HD-ESRD patients. These results demonstrate that the abnormal brain activity patterns of frontal cortex and parietal lobule may reflect the neural mediation of SWM impairment.

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)

The geochemical behavior of trace metals and nutrients in submerged sediments of the Three Gorges Reservoir and a critical review on risk assessment methods - Bin Wang; Shu Chen; Yuwei Chen; Nelson Belzile; Rui Zheng; Yuankun Yang; Kaibin Fu; Yongcan Chen; Binliang Lin; Zhaowei Liu; Jian Sun (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

Identification of three seagrass species in coral reef ecosystem by using multiple genes of DNA barcoding - Xiancheng Lin; Junde Dong; Qingsong Yang; Weiguo Zhou; Yan Wang; Ying Zhang; Manzoor Ahmad; Yingting Sun; Youshao Wang; Juan Ling (Ecotoxicology, 2021)

Maribacter hydrothermalis sp. nov., Isolated from Shallow-Sea Hydrothermal Systems Off Kueishantao Island - Huaying Lin; Dan Lin; Mu Zhang; Jianing Ye; Jia Sun; Kai Tang (Current Microbiology, 2021)

Seismic performance of precast bridge columns connected with grouted corrugated-metal duct through biaxial quasi-static experiment and modeling - Xia Zhanghua; Lin Shangshun; He Yongbo; Ge Jiping; Sun Jinlei (Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration, 2021)

Flavonoids from Artemisia rupestris and their synergistic antibacterial effects on drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus - Jiang-Er Lan; Xiao-Jin Li; Xiao-Feng Zhu; Zhong-Lin Sun; Jian-Ming He; Mire Zloh; Simon Gibbons; Qing Mu (Natural Product Research, 2021)

Houcaris gen. nov. from the early Cambrian (Stage 3) Chengjiang Lagerstätte expanded the palaeogeographical distribution of tamisiocaridids (Panarthropoda: Radiodonta) - Yu Wu; Dongjing Fu; Jiaxin Ma; Weiliang Lin; Ao Sun; Xingliang Zhang (PalZ, 2021)

Sleep Characteristics and Cerebrospinal Fluid Progranulin in Older Adults: The CABLE Study - Meng Wang; Fu-Rong Sun; Yan-Lin Bi; Ya-Hui Ma; Jian-Jun Yin; Xue-Ning Shen; Xiao-Tong Wang; Lan Tan; Jin-Tai Yu (Neurotoxicity Research, 2021)

Experimental Research on Adsorption Kinetic Characteristics of CH4, CO2, and N2 in Coal from Junggar Basin, China, at Different Temperatures - Wanjie Sun; Haifei Lin; Shugang Li; Xiangguo Kong; Hang Long; Min Yan; Yang Bai; Jiamin Tian (Natural Resources Research, 2021)

Monitoring and prediction of dust concentration in an open-pit mine using a deep-learning algorithm - Lin Li; Ruixin Zhang; Jiandong Sun; Qian He; Lingzhen Kong; Xin Liu (Journal of Environmental Health Science and Engineering, 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)

Modelling plant canopy effects on water-heat exchange in the freezing-thawing processes of active layer on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau - Lin-mao Guo; Juan Chang; Hong-liang Xu; Wen-jun Sun (Journal of Mountain Science, 2021)

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

Proteomic Response of the Brain to Hypoxic Stress in Marine Medaka Fish (Oryzias melastigma) - Keng Po Lai; Nathan Tam; Simon Yuan Wang; William Ka Fai Tse; Xiao Lin; Ting Fung Chan; Yin Tong; Jianwen Zhang; Doris Wai Ting Au; Rudolf Shiu Sun Wu; Richard Yuen Chong Kong (Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021)
Hypoxia is a serious issue that affects the marine environment, with a growing number of hypoxic “dead zones” occurring each year. Reports have indicated that hypoxia is detrimental to the reproductive function and sexual development of fish via the disruption of endocrine signaling in organs involved in the hypothalamus–pituitary–gonad axis, including the brain. While we previously reported that hypoxia induces transcriptome-wide alterations in the brain of marine medaka ( Oryzias melastigma ), whether these effects were reflected at the protein level remains unclear. Therefore, the present study used high-throughput proteomic sequencing along with bioinformatics analysis to assess the short-term and multi-generational effects of hypoxia on the brain proteome of O. melastigma . We identified 36,567 peptides and 7,599 proteins (1% false discovery rate in brain samples), with functions involved in cellular and metabolic processes such as signaling and reproductive processes as well as energy production and conversion. Furthermore, we determined that hypoxia resulted in the significant differential expressions of 33 upregulated and 69 downregulated proteins in the short-term exposure group and 24 upregulated and 52 downregulated proteins in the multi-generational exposure group. Pathway enrichment analysis of the deregulated proteins indicated that hypoxia could impair brain function by altering arachidonic acid metabolism, tight junctions, and adrenergic signaling under short-term hypoxic exposure and by altering p53 and PI3K–Akt signaling under multi-generational hypoxic exposure, which may lead to the onset of neurodegenerative disorders including Alzheimer’s disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Ingenuity pathway analysis of the deregulated proteins showed that hypoxia affected common signaling pathways in the brain (e.g., integrin, paxillin, and epithelial adherens junction signaling) under both short-term and multi-generational exposures. Hypoxia also deregulated pathways specific to short-term exposure (including integrin-linked kinase, calcium, and integrin signaling) and multi-generational exposure (including sphingosine-1-phosphate signaling, endocannabinoid neuronal synapse pathway, and endoplasmic reticulum stress pathway). Overall, our results provide additional insights into the mechanisms of hypoxia disrupting neuronal function at the protein level in marine medaka.

Status of the saker falcon in China - Jinbiao Sun; Andrew Dixon; Zhongru Gu; Zhenzhen Lin; Xiangjiang Zhan (Science China Life Sciences, 2021)

QTL mapping of the genetic basis of stem diameter in soybean - Chong-Yuan Sun; Yu-Ming Yang; Lin Jia; Xiao-Qian Liu; Huan-Qing Xu; Hai-Yan Lv; Zhong-Wen Huang; Dan Zhang (Planta, 2021)

Development and placement accuracy evaluation of an MR conditional robot for prostate intervention - Yuyang Lin; Yunlai Shi; Fugang Wang; Jun Zhang; Haichao Sun; Wenbo Wu (Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, 2021)

An Improved DDV Algorithm for the Retrieval of Aerosol Optical Depth From NOAA/AVHRR Data - Ruibo Li; Lin Sun; Huiyong Yu; Jing Wei; Xinpeng Tian (Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing, 2021)

Assessing ecological health of mangrove ecosystems along South China Coast by the pressure–state–response (PSR) model - Yu-Tu Wang; You-Shao Wang; Mei-Lin Wu; Cui-Ci Sun; Ji-Dong Gu (Ecotoxicology, 2021)

Cracking behaviors and strength of rock-like samples with steps of different geometries under shear stress - Hui-lin Le; Ji-hong Wei; Shao-rui Sun; Chu-chu Zhang (Journal of Mountain Science, 2021)

Depositional facies and diagenesis of the Lianglitage Formation in northwestern Tazhong Uplift, Tarim Basin, China: implications for the genesis of ultra-deep limestone reservoir - Da Gao; Changsong Lin; Lili Huang; Mingyi Hu; Ping Ren; Chunyan Sun; Yuru Zhao (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2021)

Microbial transformation of distinct exogenous substrates into analogous composition of recalcitrant dissolved organic matter - Jie Lian; Xiaoxuan Zheng; Xiaocun Zhuo; Yi‐Lung Chen; Chen He; Qiang Zheng; Ta‐Hui Lin; Jia Sun; Weidong Guo; Quan Shi; Nianzhi Jiao; Ruanhong Cai (Environmental Microbiology, 2021)
Summary Oceanic dissolved organic matter (DOM) comprises a complex molecular mixture which is typically refractory and homogenous in the deep layers of the ocean. Though the refractory nature of deep‐sea DOM is increasingly attributed to microbial metabolism, it remains unexplored whether ubiquitous microbial metabolism of distinct carbon substrates could lead to similar molecular composition of refractory DOM. Here, we conducted microbial incubation experiments using four typically bioavailable substrates (L‐alanine, trehalose, sediment DOM extract, and diatom lysate) to investigate how exogenous substrates are transformed by a natural microbial assemblage. The results showed that although each‐substrate‐amendment induced different changes in the initial microbial assemblage and the amended substrates were almost depleted after 90 days of dark incubation, the bacterial community compositions became similar in all incubations on day 90. Correspondingly, revealed by ultra‐high resolution mass spectrometry, molecular composition of DOM in all incubations became compositionally consistent with recalcitrant DOM and similar toward that of DOM from the deep‐sea. These results indicate that while the composition of natural microbial communities can shift with substrate exposures, long‐term microbial transformation of distinct substrates can ultimately lead to a similar refractory DOM composition. These findings provide an explanation for the homogeneous and refractory features of deep‐sea DOM.

Three new acenaphthene derivatives from rhizomes of Musa basjoo and their cytotoxic activity - Li Jiang; Bao Zhang; Yang Wang; Jia Sun; Xue Ma; Guangcheng Wang; Sihong Fu; Changhu Lin; YongJun Li (Natural Product Research, 2021)

Heavy metals and health risk of rice sampled in Yangtze River Delta, China - Jian Lin; Da Sun; Ziliang Zhang; Zengqiang Duan; Jinlong Dong (Food Additives & Contaminants Part B-Surveillance, 2021)

Maternal Separation-Induced Histone Acetylation Correlates with BDNF-Programmed Synaptic Changes in an Animal Model of PTSD with Sex Differences - Haoran Sun; Xianqiang Zhang; Yujia Kong; Luping Gou; Bo Lian; Yanyu Wang; Li Jiang; Qi Li; Hongwei Sun; Lin Sun (Molecular Neurobiology, 2021)

Calcium signalling mediated the regulation of growth and polysaccharide accumulation by light quality in Dendrobium officinale protocorms - Ting Lei; Suping Gao; Xiao Lin; Kaihui Zhang; Yingqi Liu; Wenji Li; Di Hu; Xiaofang Yu; Mingyan Jiang; Qibing Chen; Ying Sun (Horticulture, Environment, and Biotechnology, 2021)

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

Marinobacter shengliensis subsp. alexandrii Subsp. Nov., Isolated from Cultivable Phycosphere Microbiota of Highly Toxic Dinoflagellate Alexandrium catenella LZT09 and Description of Marinobacter shengliensis Subsp. shengliensis Subsp. Nov - Xi Yang; Rong Xiang; Nurhezreen Md Iqbal; Yu-Han Duan; Xiao-Ai Zhang; Lei Wang; Lin-Zeng Yu; Jia-Zhou Li; Ming-Fei Sun; Qiao Yang; Chun-Tian Zheng; Shen-Quan Liao (Current Microbiology, 2021)

Correction to: Bio-electrospraying is a safe technology for delivering human adipose-derived stem cells - Chuan Ye; Zhixu He; Yunfeng Lin; Yi Zhang; Jin Tang; Bo Sun; Minxian Ma; Jielin Liu; Long Yang; Houxiang Ren; Baoping Zhao (Biotechnology Letters, 2021)

Increased resting state functional irregularity of T2DM brains with high HbA1c: sign for impaired verbal memory function? - Xin Zhang; Ying Yu; Zhe-Sheng Shi; Ke Xu; Jia-Hao Feng; Ze-Yang Li; Xiang-Nan Zhang; Shu-Ning Shen; Yang Yang; Lin-Feng Yan; Jin Zhang; Qian Sun; et al. (Brain Imaging and Behavior, 2021)

DNAH17 is essential for rat spermatogenesis and fertility - Liling Chen; Jiamin Ouyang; Xueqing Li; Xueshan Xiao; Wenmin Sun; Shiqiang Li; Lin Zhou; Yuandong Liao; Qingjiong Zhang (Journal of Genetics, 2021)

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

Research on Accurate Prediction of the Container Ship Resistance by RBFNN and Other Machine Learning Algorithms - Yunfei Yang; Haiwen Tu; Lei Song; Lin Chen; De Xie; Jianglong Sun (Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2021)
Resistance is one of the important performance indicators of ships. In this paper, a prediction method based on the Radial Basis Function neural network (RBFNN) is proposed to predict the resistance of a 13500 transmission extension unit (13500TEU) container ship at different drafts. The predicted draft state in the known range is called interpolation prediction; otherwise, it is extrapolation prediction. First, ship features are extracted to make the resistance Rt prediction. The resistance prediction results show that the performance of the RBFNN is significantly better than the other four machine learning models, backpropagation neural network (BPNN), support vector machine (SVM), random forest (RF), and extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost). Then, the ship data is processed in a dimensionless manner, and the models mentioned above are used to predict the total resistance coefficient Ct of the container ship. The prediction results show that the RBFNN prediction model still performs well. Good results can be obtained by RBFNN in interpolation prediction, even when using part of dimensionless features. Finally, the accuracy of the prediction method based on RBFNN is greatly improved compared with the modified admiralty coefficient.

Fertilization alters protistan consumers and parasites in crop‐associated microbiomes - Anqi Sun; Xiao‐Yan Jiao; Qinglin Chen; Pankaj Trivedi; Zixin Li; Fangfang Li; Yong Zheng; Yongxin Lin; Hang‐Wei Hu; Ji‐Zheng He (Environmental Microbiology, 2021)
Summary Crop plants carry an enormous diversity of microbiota that provide massive benefits to hosts. Protists, as the main microbial consumers and a pivotal driver of biogeochemical cycling processes, remain largely understudied in the plant microbiome. Here, we characterized the diversity and composition of protists in sorghum leaf phyllosphere, and rhizosphere and bulk soils, collected from an 8‐year field experiment with multiple fertilization regimes. Phyllosphere was an important habitat for protists, dominated by Rhizaria, Alveolata and Amoebozoa. Rhizosphere and bulk soils had a significantly higher diversity of protists than the phyllosphere, and the protistan community structure significantly differed among the three plant–soil compartments. Fertilization significantly altered specific functional groups of protistan consumers and parasites. Variation partitioning models revealed that soil properties, bacteria and fungi predicted a significant proportion of the variation in the protistan communities. Changes in protists may in turn significantly alter the compositions of bacterial and fungal communities from the top‐down control in food webs. Altogether, we provide novel evidence that fertilization significantly affects the functional groups of protistan consumers and parasites in crop‐associated microbiomes, which have implications for the potential changes in their ecological functions under intensive agricultural managements.

Megafaunal Community Structure From the Abyssal to Hadal Zone in the Yap Trench - Dongsheng Zhang; Yadong Zhou; Jichao Yang; Thomas Linley; Ruiyan Zhang; Bo Lu; Peng Xu; Chengcheng Shen; Shiquan Lin; Yueyun Wang; Dong Sun; Xiaogu Wang; et al. (Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021)
Hadal trenches remain one of the unexplored ocean ecosystems due to the challenges of sampling at great depths. It is still unclear how a faunal community changes from the abyssal to the hadal zone, and which environmental variables are the key impacting factors. In this study, nine dives of the Human Occupied Vehicle (HOV) “ JIAOLONG ” were conducted from abyssal to hadal depths (4,435–6,796 m) in the Yap Trench on the southeastern boundary of the Philippine Sea Plate in the western Pacific, divided into 48,200 m video transects, to describe the megafaunal communities and reveal their relationship with environmental factors. A total of 1,171 megafauna organisms was recorded, 80 morphospecies (msps) from 8 phyla were identified based on the video data, most of which were reported for the first time in the Yap Trench. Arthropoda was the most abundant phylum and Echinodermata was the most diverse phylum of the megafaunal community. The faunal abundance increased with depth, whereas the Shannon diversity index decreased with depth. Cluster analysis suggested seven assemblages, with five abyssal groups, one mixed group, and one hadal dominant group. Although megafaunal communities changed gradually from abyssal zone to hadal zone, both PERMANOVA and PERMDISP analyses revealed that the communities are significantly different between abyssal zone and hadal zone, indicating 6,000 m as the boundary between the two depth zones. Depth, substrate, slope, and latitude were identified as four important environmental factors with significant influence on megafaunal community structure. This study proposed a transition pattern from the abyssal to hadal zone in the Yap Trench, highlighted the importance of habitat heterogeneity in structuring megafaunal community in a hadal trench.

Clinacanthus nutans Mitigates Neuronal Death and Reduces Ischemic Brain Injury: Role of NF-κB-driven IL-1β Transcription - Mei-Han Kao; Jui-Sheng Wu; Wai-Mui Cheung; Jin-Jer Chen; Grace Y. Sun; Wei-Yi Ong; Deron R. Herr; Teng-Nan Lin (NeuroMolecular Medicine, 2021)

Recent advances on the machine learning methods in predicting ncRNA-protein interactions - Lin Zhong; Meiqin Zhen; Jianqiang Sun; Qi Zhao (Molecular Genetics and Genomics, 2021)

Spatial patterns of phytoplankton community and biomass along the Kuroshio Extension and adjacent waters in late spring - Yu Wang; Jianhua Kang; Xiuwu Sun; Jiang Huang; Yili Lin; Peng Xiang (Marine Biology, 2021)

The response to flooding of two overwintering rice stem borers likely accounts for their changing impacts - Guang-Hua Luo; Zhi-Xin Luo; Zhi-Ling Zhang; Yang Sun; Ming-Hong Lu; Zhao-Lin Shu; Zi-Hua Tian; Ary A. Hoffmann; Ji-Chao Fang (Journal of Pest Science, 2021)

Analysis of slug interference tests conducted in an artificial fracture - Yunfeng Dai; Yanrong Zhao; Jin Lin; Jiangbo Han; Xiaomin Sun; Wei Li; Jiufu Liu (Hydrogeology Journal, 2021)

Enhanced antioxidant capacity and upregulated transporter genes contribute to the UV-B-induced increase in blinin in Conyza blinii - Junyi Zhan; Qin Yang; Zhiyi Lin; Tianrun Zheng; Maojia Wang; Wenjun Sun; Tongliang Bu; Zizhong Tang; Chenglei Li; Xueyi Han; Haixia Zhao; Qi Wu; et al. (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

Fluorine enrichment of vegetables and soil around an abandoned aluminium plant and its risk to human health - Lingling He; Chenglong Tu; Shouyang He; Jiulai Long; Ya Sun; Yan Sun; Changhu Lin (Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 2021)

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

Leaf spot of Sapindus mukorossi caused by Diaporthe biconispora in China - Yuan-Zhi Si; Jian-Wei Sun; De-Wei Li; Lin Huang; Yue Ju; Li-HuaZhu (Australasian Plant Pathology, 2021)

Lentibacillus saliphilus. sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from a saltern in Korea - Yun Wang; Gang-Qiang Jiang; Hong-Ping Lin; Peng Sun; Hong-Yan Zhang; Dong-Mei Lu; Li-Yun Wang; Chang-Jin Kim; Shu-Kun Tang (Archives of Microbiology, 2021)

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

Evaluation of favourable hot dry rock areas in the east of the Yishu fault zone in China - Q. Deng; A. Jiang; Z. Tong; H. Lin; Z. Gao; X. Sun; M. Nie (Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2021)

The stratigraphic significance of early Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 4) trilobites from the Smith Bay Shale near Freestone Creek, Kangaroo Island - J. B. Jago; C. J. Bentley; J. R. Paterson; J. D. Holmes; T. R. Lin; X. W. Sun (Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2021)

The adaptability of typical precipitation ensemble prediction systems in the Huaihe River basin, China - Han Wang; Ping-an Zhong; Fei-lin Zhu; Qing-wen Lu; Yu-fei Ma; Sun-yu Xu (Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 2021)

Phylogenetic and ion-response analyses reveal a relationship between gene expansion and functional divergence in the Ca2+/cation antiporter family in Angiosperms - Ye Zheng; Lin-Bo Wang; Shu-Feng Sun; Shi-Ying Liu; Ming-Jia Liu; Juan Lin (Plant Molecular Biology, 2021)

Genome-wide analysis of CBL and CIPK family genes in cotton: conserved structures with divergent interactions and expression - Weinan Sun; Bing Zhang; Jinwu Deng; Lin Chen; Abid Ullah; Xiyan Yang (Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants, 2021)

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

Engrafted primary type-2 astrocytes improve the recovery of the nigrostriatal pathway in a rat model of Parkinson's disease - Yanyun Sun; Xiao-jun Lu; Xinghui Fu; Ye Zhang; Yan Zhan; Jiabing Liu; Lingxia Zhao; Chun-lin Xia (Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, 2021)

Transcriptome Profiling Reveals the Sexual Dimorphism of Gene Expression Patterns during Gonad Differentiation in the Half-Smooth Tongue Sole (Cynoglossus semilaevis) - Genmei Lin; Dong Gao; Jianguo Lu; Xiaowen Sun (Marine Biotechnology, 2021)

Influences of organic material application on the physically separated soil organic carbon and nitrogen fractions in rice fields - Qiaogang Yu; Jing Ye; Wanchun Sun; Hui Lin; Qiang Wang; Junwei Ma (Journal of Soils and Sediments, 2021)

Employing geochemistry and geochronology to unravel genesis and tectonic setting of iron oxide-apatite deposits of the Bafq-Saghand metallogenic belt, Central Iran - Seyed Afshin Majidi; Jafar Omrani; Valentin R. Troll; Franz A. Weis; Abdolrahim Houshmandzadeh; Ehsan Ashouri; Nima Nezafati; Sun-Lin Chung (International Journal of Earth Sciences, 2021)

Gentianella acuta prevents acute myocardial infarction induced by isoproterenol in rats via inhibition of galectin-3/TLR4/MyD88/NF-кB inflammatory signalling - Jia-Huan Sun; Hong-Xia Yang; Ting-Ting Yao; Yuan Li; Lin Ruan; Geng-Rui Xu; Chuang Zhang; Guo-Xin Guo; Ai-Ying Li (Inflammopharmacology, 2021)

Genotyping-by-sequencing to determine the genetic structure of a Tibetan medicinal plant Swertia mussotii Franch. - Yan Qiao; Fengxian Guo; Naxin Huo; Lin Zhan; Jiaqing Sun; Xixi Zuo; Zeguang Guo; Yong Q. Gu; Yi Wang; Yue Liu (Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, 2021)

Desorption of CO2, SO2, and NH3 in the vacuum evaporation of desulfurization wastewater - Guifang Chen; Xiaofei Sun; Yunqi Feng; Zhanlong Song; Lin Cui; Yanpeng Mao; Chunyuan Ma; Shouyan Chen (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

The contrasting effects of thermodynamic and dynamic processes on East Asian summer monsoon precipitation during the Last Glacial Maximum: a data-model comparison - Yong Sun; Haibin Wu; Masa Kageyama; Gilles Ramstein; Laurent Z. X. Li; Ning Tan; Yating Lin; Bo Liu; Weipeng Zheng; Wenchao Zhang; Liwei Zou; Tianjun Zhou (Climate Dynamics, 2021)
The Last Glacial Maximum (LGM; 21 ka BP) was the most recent glacial period when the global ice sheet volume was at a maximum. Therefore, the LGM can be used to investigate atmospheric dynamics under a climate that differed significantly from the present. This study quantitatively compares pollen records of boreal summer (June–July–August) precipitation with the PMIP3 LGM simulations. The data-model comparison shows an overall agreement on a drier than pre-industrial East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) climate. Nevertheless, 17 out of 55 records show a regional precipitation increase that is also simulated over the additional land mass area due to sea level drop. The thermodynamic and dynamic responses are analyzed to explain a drier LGM EASM as a combination of these two antagonistic mechanisms. Relatively low atmospheric moisture content was the main thermodynamic control on the lower LGM (relative to pre-industrial levels) EASM precipitation amounts in both the reconstructions and the models. In contrast, two dynamic processes in relation to stationary eddy activity act to increase EASM precipitation regionally in records and simulations, respectively. Precipitation increase in records is explained by dynamic enhancement of the horizontal moisture transport, while dynamic enhancement of the vertical moisture transport leads to simulated precipitation increase over the specific region where landmass was exposed during LGM along continental coastlines of China due to significant drop in sea level (relative to pre-industrial levels). Overall, the opposing effects of thermodynamic and dynamic processes on precipitation during the LGM provide a means to reconcile the spatial heterogeneity of recorded precipitation changes in sign, although data-model comparison suggests that the simulated dynamic wetting mechanism is too weak relative to the thermodynamic drying mechanism over data-model disagreement regions.

Sex-specific effects of cigarette smoking on caudate and amygdala volume and resting-state functional connectivity - Fuchun Lin; Xu Han; Yao Wang; Weina Ding; Yawen Sun; Yan Zhou; Hao Lei (Brain Imaging and Behavior, 2021)

Transcriptome and Metabolome Analyses of Sea Cucumbers Apostichopus japonicus in Southern China During the Summer Aestivation Period - Qiuhua Yang; Xusheng Zhang; Zhen Lu; Ruifang Huang; Ngoc Tuan Tran; Jianshao Wu; Fuyuan Yang; Hui Ge; Chenhui Zhong; Qian Sun; Chen Zhou; Qi Lin (Journal of Ocean University of China, 2021)

Correction to: Glaciimonas soli sp. nov., a soil bacterium isolated from the forest of a high elevation mountain - Wei-Sheng Huang; Li-Ting Wang; Jun-Ning Sun; Jwo-Sheng Chen; Ssu-Po Huang; Shih-Ting Lin; Lina Huang; Wung Yang Shieh (Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, 2021)

Experimental evidence for long‐term coexistence of copiotrophic and oligotrophic bacteria in pelagic surface seawater - Yi Li; Zhi‐Bin Wang; Xi‐Ying Zhang; Yan‐Ru Dang; Lin‐Lin Sun; Wei‐Peng Zhang; Hui‐Hui Fu; Gui‐Peng Yang; Min Wang; Andrew McMinn; Xiu‐Lan Chen; Yin Chen; et al. (Environmental Microbiology, 2021)
Summary Most marine copiotrophic bacteria can produce extracellular enzymes to degrade biopolymers into bio‐available smaller solutes, while oligotrophic bacteria usually cannot. Bacterial extracellular enzymes and enzymatic products can be a common resource that could be utilized by both copiotrophs and oligotrophs; when present, oligotrophs may outcompete the enzyme‐producing copiotrophs. However, copiotrophs and oligotrophs consistently coexist in the ocean. How they maintain coexistence has still not been experimentally studied. In this study, the interaction and coexistence of a copiotroph and an oligotroph, isolated from the same surface seawater sample and utilizing the same proteinaceous substrate, were experimentally investigated. The copiotroph could secrete extracellular proteases to degrade and then utilize the proteinaceous substrate. The oligotroph was unable to utilize the proteinaceous substrate by itself, but could grow by using the hydrolysate amino acids. The copiotroph outcompeted the oligotroph by adsorbing the amino acids quickly and having a higher growth rate in the rich medium. The oligotroph survived by adapting to low concentration of nutrients. The copiotroph and oligotroph were able to maintain long‐term (up to 142 days) coexistence in the laboratory. This study indicates that differences in the utilization of different concentrations of nutrients can drive the coexistence of marine copiotrophs and oligotrophs.

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

Preliminary study on relationships among nutritional risk, serum prealbumin, and peripheral blood T cell subsets in patients with severe COVID-19 - Yanli Li; Yanbo Sun; Jing He; Peng Zhao; Pengju Luo; Jinsong Bai; Weiming Li; Shumin Li; Yueying Lin; Yunyun Cen (Infectious Diseases, 2021)

Understanding the dynamical-microphysical-electrical processes associated with severe thunderstorms over the Beijing metropolitan region - Xiushu Qie; Shanfeng Yuan; Zhixiong Chen; Dongfang Wang; Dongxia Liu; Mengyu Sun; Zhuling Sun; Abhay Srivastava; Hongbo Zhang; Jingyu Lu; Hui Xiao; Yongheng Bi; et al. (Science China Earth Sciences, 2021)

Verification of the biomass transfer hypothesis under moderate grazing across the Tibetan plateau: a meta-analysis - Jian Sun; Tianyu Zhan; Miao Liu; Zhenchao Zhang; Yi Wang; Shiliang Liu; Gao-lin Wu; Guohua Liu; Atsushi Tsunekawa (Plant and Soil, 2021)

Moisture effects on the active prokaryotic communities in a saline soil unraveled by 18O-informed metagenomics - Yeliang Dai; Yanshuo Pan; Yue Sun; Jun Zeng; Guangming Liu; Wenhui Zhong; Xuanzhen Li; Yucheng Wu; Xiangui Lin (Journal of Soils and Sediments, 2021)

Improved control of Frankliniella occidentalis on greenhouse pepper through the integration of Orius sauteri and neonicotinoid insecticides - Qing-cai Lin; Hao Chen; Dirk Babendreier; Jin-ping Zhang; Feng Zhang; Xiao-yan Dai; Zuo-wen Sun; Zhao-peng Shi; Xiao-lin Dong; Guang-an Wu; Yi Yu; Li Zheng; et al. (Journal of Pest Science, 2021)

Adsorptive Removal of Low-Concentration Cr(VI) in Aqueous Solution by Mg–Al Layered Double Oxides - Lin Fan; Bo Zhou; Sheng Zhang; Sihai Hu; Xiaohui Mi; Ran Sun; Yaoguo Wu (Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 2021)

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

A new phenolic glycoside from Trollius chinensis Bunge with anti-inflammatory and antibacterial activities - Jie Feng; Danyang Zhao; Qiannan Xu; Xiangzhong Liu; Mi Zhou; Xiansheng Ye; Ting Lin; Guanghui Wang; Cuiling Sun; Rong Ding; Wenjing Tian; Haifeng Chen (Natural Product Research, 2020)

The razor clam Sinonovacula constricta uses the strategy of conversion of toxic ammonia to glutamine in response to high environmental ammonia exposure - Huan Zhang; Gaigai Sun; Zhihua Lin; Hanhan Yao; Yinghui Dong (Molecular Biology Reports, 2020)

Distribution Characteristics of Soil Organic Phosphorus Fractions in the Inner Mongolia Steppe - Xiaoya Zhu; Xiaorong Zhao; Qimei Lin; Alamus; Hai Wang; Honglin Liu; Wenxue Wei; Xuecheng Sun; Yongtao Li; Guitong Li (Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, 2020)

Enhancing the production of a marine diatom (Skeletonema costatum) with low-frequency ultrasonic irradiation - Rediat Abate; Shuang Song; Vishal Patil; Changping Chen; Junrong Liang; Lin Sun; Xuesong Li; Bangqin Huang; Yahui Gao (Journal of Applied Phycology, 2020)

Management of Gout-associated MSU crystals-induced NLRP3 inflammasome activation by procyanidin B2: targeting IL-1β and Cathepsin B in macrophages - Chun-Ying Qiao; Ying Li; Yue Shang; Min Jiang; Jian Liu; Zi-Ying Zhan; Huan Ye; Yong-Ce Lin; Jing-Ya Jiao; Rong-Hui Sun; Zhi-Hong Zhang; Mei-Hua Piao; et al. (Inflammopharmacology, 2020)

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

Genetic diversity and population structure in bearded iris cultivars derived from Iris × germanica L. and its related species I. pumila L., I. variegata L., I. pallida Lam. - Fengtong Li; Ye Sun; Chungui Liu; Yuan Yuan; Lin Zheng; Xiulan Chen; Jianzhong Bao (Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, 2020)

Shear Behavior of Bolt-Reinforced Joint Rock Under Varying Stress Environment - Hang Lin; Penghui Sun; Yifan Chen; Yixian Wang; Yanlin Zhao (Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, 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.

Physiological and molecular responses to ocean acidification among strains of a model diatom - Ruiping Huang; Jiancheng Ding; Jiazhen Sun; Yang Tian; Chris Bowler; Xin Lin; Kunshan Gao (Limnology and Oceanography, 2020)
Differential responses of diatoms, an important group of marine primary producers to ocean acidification, have been well documented. However, studies so far are based on limited representative strains from key species. Investigation of strain level responses will help us better understand the contrasting discrepancy in diatom responses to ocean acidification. Here, we selected four strains of the model diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum isolated from different regions of the global ocean, representing all genotypes based on internal transcribed spacer 2 sequences, and investigated strain‐specific responses to ocean acidification. In response to ocean acidification, changes in carbon metabolism varied among strains, although no significant effects of ocean acidification on growth rates or pigments were observed in any strains. The expression of genes encoding plasma membrane bicarbonate transporters was downregulated in strain Pt4, reflecting a potential decrease in active uptake, which was not observed in the other strains. Reduction of CO 2 concentrating mechanism efficiency was also indicated by the regulated expression of genes encoding carbonic anhydrases that catalyze the interconversion of and CO 2 in the pyrenoids and pyrenoid‐penetrating thylakoid, which exhibited different patterns among the strains. Under ocean acidification conditions, C4‐like metabolism appeared to redistribute carbon flux to gluconeogenesis in strain Pt1, and lipid synthesis in strains Pt8 and Pt11, rather than participating in net photosynthetic carbon fixation. These variations were incompletely correlated with phylogenetic relationship in different strains, implying that the habitat‐adapted imprints of the different strains could also be responsible for their differential responses to ocean acidification.

Geochemical constraints on the origin of late Cenozoic basalts in the Mt. Changbai volcanic field, NE China: evidence for crustal recycling - Ming Lei; Zhengfu Guo; Yutao Sun; Maoliang Zhang; Lihong Zhang; Lin Ma (International Geology Review, 2020)

Incorporation of Hydroxamate Siderophore and Associated Fe Into Marine Particles in Natural Seawater - Peng Lin; Chen Xu; Luni Sun; Wei Xing; Peter H. Santschi (Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020)

FW0622, a new siderophore isolated from marine Verrucosispora sp. by genomic mining - Wei Zhao; Fei Peng; Chuan-xi Wang; Yang Xie; Ru Lin; Zhi-kai Fang; Fei Sun; Yun-yang Lian; Hong Jiang (Natural Product Research, 2020)

Ferrous iron-induced increases in capitate glandular trichome density and upregulation of CbHO-1 contributes to increases in blinin content in Conyza blinii - Tianrun Zheng; Maojia Wang; Junyi Zhan; Wenjun Sun; Qin Yang; Zhiyi Lin; Tongliang Bu; Zizhong Tang; Chenglei Li; Jun Yan; Zhi Shan; Hui Chen (Planta, 2020)

Os4BGlu14, a monolignol β-Glucosidase, negatively affects seed longevity by influencing primary metabolism in rice - Rui-Juan Ren; Pei Wang; Li-Na Wang; Jing-Ping Su; Lin-Jing Sun; Yue Sun; De-Fu Chen; Xi-Wen Chen (Plant Molecular Biology, 2020)

Activation of p62-Keap1-Nrf2 Pathway Protects 6-Hydroxydopamine-Induced Ferroptosis in Dopaminergic Cells - Yiran Sun; Libo He; Taoyu Wang; Wan Hua; Huan Qin; Jingjin Wang; Li Wang; Wanqin Gu; Tingting Li; Na Li; Xinanbei Liu; Fang Chen; et al. (Molecular Neurobiology, 2020)

MicroRNA-761 modulates foam cell formation and inflammation through autophagy in the progression of atherosclerosis - Chao Wang; Wei Yang; Xiaofei Liang; Wei Song; Jing Lin; Yan Sun; Xiuru Guan (Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, 2020)

Genetic diversity analysis reveals new badnaviruses infecting banana in South China - Xue-Qin Rao; Zi-Lin Wu; Wan Wang; Lin Zhou; Jie Sun; Hua-Ping Li (Journal of Plant Pathology, 2020)

First report of ramie mosaic virus on passion fruit in Guangdong, southern China - Li Juan Chen; Dong Lei Sun; Ying Lin Lu; Yu Xing An (Journal of Plant Pathology, 2020)

Global sensitivity analysis on a numerical model of seawater intrusion and its implications for coastal aquifer management: a case study in Dagu River Basin, Jiaozhou Bay, China - Di Zhang; Yun Yang; Jianfeng Wu; Xilai Zheng; Guanqun Liu; Xiaomin Sun; Jin Lin; Jichun Wu (Hydrogeology Journal, 2020)

Effects of intercropping accumulator plants and applying their straw on the growth and cadmium accumulation of Brassica chinensis L. - Yi Tang; Liming Wang; Yongdong Xie; Xuena Yu; LiJin Lin; Huanxiu Li; Ming’an Liao; Zhihui Wang; Guochao Sun; Dong Liang; Hui Xia; Xun Wang; et al. (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020)

Liver Function of Male Rats Exposed to Manganese at Different Time Points - Xiaonian Zhu; Lin Yang; Yonghua He; Yi Sun; Wenxiang Shi; Chaoyan Ou (Biological Trace Element Research, 2020)

Chemoheterotrophic diazotrophs contribute to nitrogen incorporation in a semi-arid desert - Lin Miao; Wei Feng; Yuqing Zhang; Yuxuan Bai; Yanfei Sun; Weiwei She; Henan Mao; Zongrui Lai; Shugao Qin (Biology and Fertility of Soils, 2020)

Evaluation on the allocative efficiency of agricultural factors in the five Central Asian countries - Guogang Wang; Lin Zhang; Yuzhu Sun; Yantao Yang; Chengji Han (Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2020)

Complete genome sequence of a novel recombinant avian leukosis virus isolated from a three-yellow chicken - Tao Sun; Ximei Wang; Wei Han; Xiaoling Ma; Weili Yin; Baohai Fang; Xiao Lin; Yang Li (Archives of Virology, 2020)

Infusion of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells Improves Regenerative Niche in Thioacetamide-Injured Mouse Liver - Ying-Hsien Kao; Yu-Chun Lin; Po-Huang Lee; Chia-Wei Lin; Po-Han Chen; Tzong-Shyuan Tai; Yo-Chen Chang; Ming-Huei Chou; Chih-Yang Chang; Cheuk-Kwan Sun (Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, 2020)

Impact of prophylactic/preemptive donor lymphocyte infusion and intensified conditioning for relapsed/refractory leukemia: a real-world study - Yu Wang; Qi-Fa Liu; De-Pei Wu; Jing-Bo Wang; Xi Zhang; Heng-Xiang Wang; Feng Gao; Shun-Qing Wang; Zi-Min Sun; Jian Ouyang; Kai-Lin Xu; Su-Jun Gao; et al. (Science China Life Sciences, 2020)

LMDS-1, a potential TrkB receptor agonist provides a safe and neurotrophic effect for early-phase Alzheimer’s disease - Chia-Hao Fan; Chia-Wei Lin; Hei-Jen Huang; Guey-Jen Lee-Chen; Ying-Chieh Sun; Wenwei Lin; Chiung-Mei Chen; Kuo-Hsuan Chang; Ming-Tsan Su; Hsiu Mei Hsieh-Li (Psychopharmacology, 2020)

The molecular mechanism underlying cadmium resistance in NHX1 transgenic Lemna turonifera was studied by comparative transcriptome analysis - Jie Yao; Jinge Sun; Yikai Chen; Leqian Shi; Lin Yang; Yong Wang (Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC), 2020)

Mu-Opioid Receptors Expressed in Glutamatergic Neurons are Essential for Morphine Withdrawal - Xin-Yan Zhang; Qing Li; Ye Dong; Wei Yan; Kun Song; Yong-Qin Lin; Yan-Gang Sun (Neuroscience Bulletin, 2020)

A novel freshwater cyanophage vB_MelS-Me-ZS1 infecting bloom-forming cyanobacterium Microcystis elabens - Wei Lin; Dengfeng Li; Zhitong Sun; Yigang Tong; Xiaojun Yan; Chunlin Wang; Xianglilan Zhang; Guangqian Pei (Molecular Biology Reports, 2020)

MODIS Aerosol Optical Depth Inversion Over Urban Areas Supported by BRDF/Albedo Products - Wenhua Zhang; Lin Sun; Lishu Lian; Yikun Yang (Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing, 2020)

The gut-microbiota-testis axis mediated by the activation of the Nrf2 antioxidant pathway is related to prepuberal steroidogenesis disorders induced by di-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate - Tian-Xin Zhao; Yue-Xin Wei; Jun-Ke Wang; Lin-Dong Han; Mang Sun; Yu-Hao Wu; Lian-Ju Shen; Chun-Lan Long; Sheng-De Wu; Guang-Hui Wei (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020)

El Niño phase-dependent high-frequency variability in Western Equatorial Pacific - Ming Sun; Tim Li; Lin Chen (Climate Dynamics, 2020)

2D slope stability analysis based on Pan’s maximum principle - Xiao Gang Wang; Xing Chao Lin; Ping Sun; Xu Li; Yu Jie Wang; Yong Yu Ling (Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, 2020)

Irregular structural networks of gray matter in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus - Chuanlong Cao; Wanqing Liu; Qing Zhang; Jian-lin Wu; Yumei Sun; Danyang Li; Hongyu Fan; Feifei Wang (Brain Imaging and Behavior, 2020)

Selenium Deficiency in Chickens Induces Intestinal Mucosal Injury by Affecting the Mucosa Morphology, SIgA Secretion, and GSH-Px Activity - Xianjing He; Yucai Lin; Shuai Lian; Dongbo Sun; Donghua Guo; Jianfa Wang; Rui Wu (Biological Trace Element Research, 2020)

Carbon emission efficiency of thermal power in different regions of China and spatial correlations - Jin Zhu; Huaping Sun; Dequn Zhou; Lin Peng; Chuanwang Sun (Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 2020)

FGOALS-g3 Model Datasets for CMIP6 Flux-Anomaly-Forced Model Intercomparison Project - Yaqi Wang; Zipeng Yu; Pengfei Lin; Hailong Liu; Jiangbo Jin; Lijuan Li; Yanli Tang; Li Dong; Kangjun Chen; Yiwen Li; Qian Yang; Mengrong Ding; et al. (Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 2020)
The Flux-Anomaly-Forced Model Intercomparison Project (FAFMIP) is an endorsed Model Intercomparison Project in phase 6 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6). The goal of FAFMIP is to investigate the spread in the atmosphere-ocean general circulation model projections of ocean climate change forced by increased CO 2 , including the uncertainties in the simulations of ocean heat uptake, global mean sea level rise due to ocean thermal expansion and dynamic sea level change due to ocean circulation and density changes. The FAFMIP experiments have already been conducted with the Flexible Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System Model, gridpoint version 3.0 (FGOALS-g3). The model datasets have been submitted to the Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF) node. Here, the details of the experiments, the output variables and some baseline results are presented. Compared with the preliminary results of other models, the evolutions of global mean variables can be reproduced well by FGOALS-g3. The simulations of spatial patterns are also consistent with those of other models in most regions except the North Atlantic and the Southern Ocean, indicating large uncertainties in the regional sea level projections of these two regions.

New evidence for Jurassic continental rifting in the northern Sanandaj Sirjan Zone, western Iran: the Ghalaylan seamount, southwest Ghorveh - Hossein Azizi; Fatemeh Nouri; Robert J. Stern; Marie Azizi; Federico Lucci; Yoshihiro Asahara; Mohammad Hossein Zarinkoub; Sun Lin Chung (International Geology Review, 2020)

Gene UCHL1 expresses specifically in mouse uterine decidual cells in response to estrogen - Lishuang Hao; Di Song; Mengfei Zhuang; Yan Shi; Lin Yu; Yaping He; Jian Wang; Tingting Zhang; Zhaogui Sun (Histochemistry and Cell Biology, 2020)

The correlation analyses of bacterial community composition and spatial factors between freshwater and sediment in Poyang Lake wetland by using artificial neural network (ANN) modeling - Ran Sun; Zuxin Tu; Lin Fan; Zixia Qiao; Xiaoyan Liu; Sihai Hu; Guohua Zheng; Yaoguo Wu; Ruiwu Wang; Xiaohui Mi (Brazilian Journal of Microbiology, 2020)

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

Prenylated isoflavones with potential antiproliferative activities from Mappianthus iodoides - Yan-Ping Liu; Li-Li Sun; Xiang-Lin Zhang; Hai-Yuan Niu; Zheng-Hong Pan; Yan-Hui Fu (Natural Product Research, 2020)

Dietary risk assessment of pesticide residues on Tremella fuciformis Berk (snow fungus) from Fujian Province of China - Qinghua Yao; Sun-an Yan; Hanzhen Chen; Jie Li; Qiu Lin (Food Additives & Contaminants: Part A, 2020)

Changes of Enzymatic Activities, Substrate Utilization Pattern, and Microbial Community Diversity in Heavy Metal-Contaminated Soils - Sun Yuebing; Zheng Shunan; Wang Lin; Liang Xuefeng; Xu Yingming (Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 2020)

A Facile and Sensitive DNA Sensing of Harmful Algal Blooms Based on Graphene Oxide Nanosheets - Le Qiang; Yu Zhang; Chao Wu; Yingkuan Han; Suchun Wang; Yanyan Wang; Congcong Zhang; Guangzhou Liu; Qi Wu; Hong Liu; Ian R. Jenkinson; Jun Sun; et al. (Marine Biotechnology, 2020)

Evaluation of freezing tolerance in Actinidia germplasm based on relative electrolyte leakage - Shihang Sun; Xiujuan Qi; Ran Wang; Miaomiao Lin; Jinbao Fang (Horticulture, Environment, and Biotechnology, 2020)

Comprehensive Geophysical Investigation and Analysis of Lining Leakage for Water-Rich Rock Tunnels: A Case Study of Kaiyuan Tunnel, Jinan, China - Chunjin Lin; Xintong Wang; Lichao Nie; Huaifeng Sun; Zhenhao Xu; Yuchao Du; Lang Liu (Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, 2020)

Bioaccessibility and health risk assessment of trace metals in soils of greenhouse vegetable production near the industrial areas of the Yangtze River Delta, China - Lanqin Yang; Lin Di; Feili Sun; Wenfei Tian; Biao Huang; Gang Fan (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020)

Long-term influence of maize stover and its derived biochar on soil structure and organo-mineral complexes in Northeast China - Qiang Sun; Jun Meng; Binoy Sarkar; Yu Lan; Li Lin; Haifeng Li; Xu Yang; Tiexin Yang; Wenfu Chen; Hailong Wang (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020)

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

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

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

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

Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells combine with normothermic machine perfusion to improve rat donor liver quality—the important role of hepatic microcirculation in donation after circulatory death - Liu Yang; Huan Cao; Dong Sun; Bin Hou; Ling Lin; Zhong-Yang Shen; Hong-Li Song (Cell and Tissue Research, 2020)
Donation after circulatory death (DCD) can expand the donor pool effectively. A gap remains in outcome between DCD livers and living donor livers, warranting improved DCD liver quality and urgent resolution. Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMMSCs) can regulate immunity, participate in the anti-inflammatory response, and secrete cytokines. We investigated the effect of BMMSCs combined with normothermic machine perfusion (NMP) on DCD liver quality, and the role of microcirculation therein. Rat thoracic aortas were clipped to obtain DCD livers, and a rat NMP system was established. The DCD livers were grouped by preservation method: normal, static cold storage (SCS), NMP (P), and BMMSCs plus NMP (BP); storage time was up to 8 h. Liver function in outflow perfusate was detected by biochemical methods; liver tissue histopathology was observed by hematoxylin–eosin staining; hepatocyte ultrastructure was observed by transmission electron microscopy; hepatocyte apoptosis was detected by terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase dUTP nick end labeling; liver microcirculation–related indicators were detected by immunofluorescence, immunohistochemistry, Western blotting, and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Compared with SCS, P and BP significantly improved liver function and liver histological damage, reduced hepatocyte apoptosis, and repaired hepatocyte mitochondrial damage after 6 h in vitro. BP also significantly inhibited intrahepatic macrophage activation and intercellular adhesion, improved endothelial damage, and significantly improved endothelin 1–nitric oxide balance and microcirculation perfusion. In conclusion, BP can improve DCD liver microcirculation and quality. The mechanism may be the improvement of improve hepatic sinusoidal endothelial injury and microcirculation perfusion by inhibiting macrophage activation and intercellular adhesion.

Glaciimonas soli sp. nov., a soil bacterium isolated from the forest of a high elevation mountain - Wei-Sheng Huang; Li-Ting Wang; Jun-Ning Sun; Jwo-Sheng Chen; Ssu-Po Huang; Shih-Ting Lin; Lina Huang; Wung Yang Shieh (Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, 2020)

Ancestral niche separation and evolutionary rate differentiation between sister marine flavobacteria lineages - Chun‐Xu Xue; Hao Zhang; He‐Yu Lin; Ying Sun; Danli Luo; Yongjie Huang; Xiao‐Hua Zhang; Haiwei Luo (Environmental Microbiology, 2020)
Summary Marine flavobacteria are specialists for polysaccharide degradation. They dominate in habitats enriched with polysaccharides, but are also prevalent in pelagic environments where polysaccharides are less available. These niches are likely occupied by distinct lineages, but evolutionary processes underlying their niche differentiation remain elusive. Here, genomic analyses and physiological assays indicate that the sister flavobacteria lineages Leeuwenhoekiella and Nonlabens likely explore polysaccharide‐rich macroalgae and polysaccharide‐poor pelagic niches respectively. Phylogenomic analyses inferred that the niche separation likely occurred anciently and coincided with increased sequence evolutionary rate in Nonlabens compared with Leeuwenhoekiella . Further analyses ruled out the known mechanisms likely driving evolutionary rate acceleration, including reduced selection efficiency, decreased generation time and increased mutation rate. In particular, the mutation rates were determined using an unbiased experimental method, which measures the present‐day populations and may not reflect ancestral populations. These data collectively lead to a new hypothesis that an ancestral and transient mutation rate increase resulted in evolutionary rate increase in Nonlabens . This hypothesis was supported by inferring that gains and losses of genes involved in SOS response, a mechanism known to drive transiently increased mutation rate, coincided with evolutionary rate acceleration. Our analyses highlight the evolutionary mechanisms underlying niche differentiation of flavobacteria lineages.

Selenium accumulation characteristics of Cyphomandra betacea (Solanum betaceum) seedlings - Linjin Lin; Jing Sun; Tonghao Cui; Xiong Zhou; Ming’an Liao; Yunmin Huan; Liu Yang; Caifang Wu; Xianmin Xia; Yuxi Wang; Zhiyu Li; Jinpeng Zhu; et al. (Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants, 2020)

Effects of different flow velocities on behavior and TRPA1 expression in the sea cucumber Apostichopus japonicas - Chenggang Lin; Xiaolu Liu; Lina Sun; Shilin Liu; Jingchun Sun; Libin Zhang; Hongsheng Yang (Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2020)

Targeting Inflammation, PHA-767491 Shows a Broad Spectrum in Protein Aggregation Diseases - Yu-Han Chung; Chia-Wei Lin; Hsin-Yu Huang; Shu-Ling Chen; Hei-Jen Huang; Ying-Chieh Sun; Guan-Chiun Lee; Guey-Jen Lee-Chen; Ya-Ching Chang; Hsiu Mei Hsieh-Li (Journal of Molecular Neuroscience, 2020)

Methylation of Phospholipase A2 Group VII Gene Is Associated with Brain Arteriovenous Malformations in Han Chinese Populations - Yuchun Liu; Xizheng Wu; Sheng Nie; Shengjun Zhou; Shuyuan Xiao; Xiang Gao; Zhiqing Lin; Jie Sun; Yi Huang (Journal of Molecular Neuroscience, 2020)

EGF neutralization antibodies attenuate liver fibrosis by inhibiting myofibroblast proliferation in bile duct ligation mice - Hufeng Xu; Lin Liu; Min Cong; Tianhui Liu; Shujie Sun; Hong Ma; Hong You; Jidong Jia; Ping Wang (Histochemistry and Cell Biology, 2020)

Streptomyces taklimakanensis sp. nov., an actinomycete isolated from the Taklimakan desert - Lin-Lin Yuan; Li-Li Zhang; Xiao-Xia Luo; Zhan-Feng Xia; Bei-Bei Sun; Hong Zeng (Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, 2020)

Preparation and Characterization of PVA-Co-PE Drug-Loaded Nanofiber Membrane by Electrospinning Technology - Si Sheng; Xiaoying Yin; Fangmei Chen; Yixin Lv; Lin Zhang; Menghui Cao; Yun Sun (AAPS PharmSciTech, 2020)

Enhanced Antitumor Efficacy of Curcumin-Loaded PLGA Nanoparticles Coated with Unique Fungal Hydrophobin - Lu Sun; Hui Xu; Jing-hua Xu; Shao-ning Wang; Jun-wei Wang; Hong-feng Zhang; Wei-ru Jia; Lin-sen Li (AAPS PharmSciTech, 2020)

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

Experimental demonstration of the importance of keystone communities for maintaining metacommunity biodiversity and ecosystem functioning - Xian Yang; Jiaqi Tan; Kevin Harry Sun; Lin Jiang (Oecologia, 2020)

Quantitative Relationship Between Argillaceous Caprock Thickness and Maximum Sealed Hydrocarbon Column Height - Cunfei Ma; Chengyan Lin; Chunmei Dong; Guoqiang Luan; Yu Zhang; Xiaolong Sun; Xiaocen Liu (Natural Resources Research, 2020)

Analyzing carbon emission transfer network structure among provinces in China: new evidence from social network analysis - Licheng Sun; Lin Qin; Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary; Jijian Zhang; Muhammad Mohsin; Imran Sharif Chaudhry (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020)

Depositional sequences and microfacies of Lower Carboniferous strata in the Marsel block of the Chu-Sarysu Basin, Southern Kazakhstan - Yuan Wang; Changsong Lin; Yanda Sun; Jingyan Liu; Hao Li; Haiquan He; Qinglong Wang; Muye Ji; Manli Zhang; Bozhi Zhao; Zhiyuan Zhang (Carbonates and Evaporites, 2020)

Spatial Relationships of Water Resources with Energy Consumption at Coal Mining Operations in China - Gang Lin; Dong Jiang; Jingying Fu; Donglin Dong; Wenjie Sun; Xiang Li (Mine Water and the Environment, 2020)

Surface currents measured by GPS drifters in Daya Bay and along the eastern Guangdong coast - Yang Gao; Yongxiang Huang; Hongyang Lin; Zhenyu Sun; Jia Zhu; Jianyu Hu (Frontiers of Earth Science, 2020)

Correction to: Effect of stomatal control on Populus simonii Carr stand transpiration in farmland shelterbelt, China’s semi-arid region - Shuai Fu; Yuan Xiao; Yi Luo; Lin Sun; Daishe Wu (Agroforestry Systems, 2020)

Effect of stomatal control on Populus simonii Carr stand transpiration in farmland shelterbelt, China’s semi-arid region - Shuai Fu; Yuan Xiao; Yi Luo; Lin Sun; Daishe Wu (Agroforestry Systems, 2020)