Dehydration at subduction zones and the geochemistry of slab fluids - Wancai Li; Huaiwei Ni (Science China Earth Sciences, 2020)

β-Actin facilitates etoposide-induced p53 nuclear import - Wenjing Qi; Jinjiao Li; Xiaohua Pei; Yueshuang Ke; Qingpan Bu; Xiuzhen Ni (Journal of Biosciences, 2020)

Identification, tissue distribution, periprandial expression, and anorexigenic effect of spexin in Siberian sturgeon, Acipenser baeri - Zhengzhi Tian; Shaoqi Xu; Mei Wang; Ya Li; Hu Chen; Ni Tang; Bin Wang; Xin Zhang; Zhiqiong Li (Fish Physiology and Biochemistry, 2020)

Safety of azithromycin in pediatrics: a systematic review and meta-analysis - Linan Zeng; Peipei Xu; Imti Choonara; Zhenyan Bo; Xiangchen Pan; Wenyan Li; Xiaofeng Ni; Tao Xiong; Can Chen; Leshan Huang; Shamim Ahmad Qazi; Dezhi Mu; et al. (European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 2020)
Purpose To evaluate the toxicity of azithromycin in neonates, infants, and children. Methods A systematic review was performed for relevant studies using Medline (Ovid), PubMed, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, EMBASE, CINAHL, and International Pharmaceutical Abstracts. We calculated the pooled incidence of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) associated with azithromycin based on prospective studies (RCTs and prospective cohort studies) and analyzed the risk difference (RD) of ADRs between azithromycin and placebo or other antibiotics using meta-analysis of RCTs. Results We included 133 studies with 4243 ADRs reported in 197,675 neonates, infants, and children who received azithromycin. The safety of azithromycin as MDA in pediatrics was poorly monitored. The main ADRs were diarrhea and vomiting. In prospective non-MDA studies, the most common toxicity was gastrointestinal ADRs (938/1967; 47.7%). The most serious toxicities were cardiac (prolonged QT or irregular heart beat) and idiopathic hypertrophic pyloric stenosis (IHPS). Compared with placebo, azithromycin did not show increased risk ADRs based on RCTs (risk difference − 0.17 to 0.07). The incidence of QT prolonged was higher in the medium-dosage group (10–30 mg/kg/day) than that of low-dosage group (≤ 10 mg/kg/day) (82.0% vs 1.2%). Conclusion The safety of azithromycin as MDA needs further evaluation. The most common ADRs are diarrhea and vomiting. The risk of the most serious uncommon ADRs (cardiac-prolonged QT and IHPS) is unknown.

Pregabalin-associated stuttering and frequent blepharospasm: case report and review. - Lingzhi Ge; Ang Li; Ni Wang; Ping Li; Hongyan Xin; Wenfei Li (DARU Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2020)
Herpes zoster is an acute, painful, herpes skin disease caused by varicella-zoster virus, which may cause viral meningitis. Pregabalin has been shown to be efficacious in the treatment of pain in patients with herpes zoster. However, it has the side effects of neurotoxicity. We describe a 68-year-old female patient with herpes zoster, and she was treated with pregabalin. The patient presented with stuttering and frequent blepharospasm after 3 days of pregabalin treatment. Pregabalin was discontinued, the symptoms of stuttering and frequent blepharospasm completely resolved without any special treatment after one week. In this case, the etiology of stuttering and frequent blepharospasm may be related to pregabalin. Clinicians should be alert to the rare symptoms associated with the use of pregabalin.

Toxicity Changes of Heavily Polluted River Sediments on Daphnia magna Before and After Dredging - Li-Ling Zhang; Zhou-Tao Pei; Ya-Ni Zhao; Jing Zhang; Rou-Rou Xu; Meng Zhang; Wen-Qiang Wang; Li-Wei Sun; Guang-Can Zhu (Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 2020)

Comparative transcriptome analysis of gynoecious and monoecious inflorescences reveals regulators involved in male flower development in the woody perennial plant Jatropha curcas - Mei-Li Zhao; Mao-Sheng Chen; Jun Ni; Chuan-Jia Xu; Qing Yang; Zeng-Fu Xu (Plant Reproduction, 2020)

Hydrogeochemical Characteristics and Impact of Arsenic Released from a Gold Deposit in Tibet - Hongyu Gu; Huayong Ni; Yingchun Wang; Yujie Liu; Dan Li; Zhi Zhang (Mine Water and the Environment, 2020)

SNP of AHSA2 gene in three cattle breeds using snapshot technology - Shu-Zhu Cheng; E. Guang-Xin; Cheng-Li Liu; Wang-Dui Basang; Yan-Bin Zhu; Ri-Su Na; Yan-Guo Han; Yan Zeng; Xiao Wang; Wei-Wei Ni; Bai-Gao Yang; Xing-Hai Duan; et al. (Journal of Genetics, 2020)

Possible effects of leaf tissue characteristics of oilseed rape Brassica napus on probing and feeding behaviors of cabbage aphids Brevicoryne brassicae - Zhong-Ping Hao; Hai-Xia Zhan; Ling-Ling Gao; Fang Huang; Li-Ni Zhu; Shu-Min Hou (Arthropod-Plant Interactions, 2020)

The change of fracture conductivity caused by coal fines with different particle sizes displaced by single-phase water - Xiaoming Ni; Quanzhong Li; Zheng Zhao; Zedong Liu; Wenlong Han (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2020)

Seasonal and spatial variability in surface p CO 2 and air–water CO 2 flux in the Chesapeake Bay - Baoshan Chen; Wei‐Jun Cai; Jean R. Brodeur; Najid Hussain; Jeremy M. Testa; Wenfei Ni; Qian Li (Limnology and Oceanography, 2020)
Interactions between riverine inputs, internal cycling, and oceanic exchange result in dynamic variations in the partial pressure of carbon dioxide ( p CO 2 ) in large estuaries. Here, we report the first bay‐wide, annual‐scale observations of surface p CO 2 and air–water CO 2 flux along the main stem of the Chesapeake Bay, revealing large annual variations in p CO 2 (43–3408 μ atm) and a spatial‐dependence of p CO 2 on internal and external drivers. The low salinity upper bay was a net source of CO 2 to the atmosphere (31.2 mmol m −2 d −1 ) supported by inputs of CO 2 ‐rich Susquehanna River water and the respiration of allochthonous organic matter, but part of this region was also characterized by low p CO 2 during spring and fall phytoplankton blooms. p CO 2 decreased downstream due to CO 2 ventilation supported by long water residence times, stratification, mixing with low p CO 2 water masses, and carbon removal by biological uptake. The mesohaline middle bay was a net CO 2 sink (−5.8 mmol m −2 d −1 ) and the polyhaline lower bay was nearly in equilibrium with the atmosphere (1.0 mmol m −2 d −1 ). Although the main stem of the bay was a weak CO 2 source (3.7 ± 3.3 × 10 9 mol C) during the dry hydrologic (calendar) year 2016, our observations showed higher river discharge could decrease CO 2 efflux. In contrast to many other estuaries worldwide that are strong sources of CO 2 to the atmosphere, the Chesapeake Bay and potentially other large estuaries are very weak CO 2 sources in dry years, and could even turn into a CO 2 sink in wet years.

Could urinary ACE2 protein level help identify individuals susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 infection and complication? - Xiaotian Ni; Changqing Sun; Yaping Tian; Yanjie Huang; Tongqing Gong; Lan Song; Xing Yang; Kai Li; Nairen Zheng; Jianping Wang; Hongxing Wu; Ruoxian Zhang; et al. (Science China Life Sciences, 2020)

Decreased serum albumin level indicates poor prognosis of COVID-19 patients: hepatic injury analysis from 2,623 hospitalized cases - Wei Huang; Chenze Li; Zhiquan Wang; Hong Wang; Ning Zhou; Jiangang Jiang; Li Ni; Xin A. Zhang; Dao-Wen Wang (Science China Life Sciences, 2020)

Modeling Damage Evolution in Heterogeneous Granite Using Digital Image-Based Grain-Based Model - Xunjian Hu; Ni Xie; Qizhi Zhu; Liang Chen; PengCheng Li (Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, 2020)

Breastfeeding improves dynamic reorganization of functional connectivity in preterm infants: a temporal brain network study - Weiming Niu; Xinfen Xu; Hongxi Zhang; Yao Zhang; Shaoqing Ni; Tianmei Liu; Qiufang Li; Can Lai; Yu Sun (Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, 2020)

A pair of new neo -clerodane diterpenoid epimers from the roots of Croton crassifolius and their anti-inflammatory - Dong-Bo Zhang; Zhi-Shu Tang; Pei Xie; Yan-Ni Liang; Jin-Gao Yu; Zhen Zhang; Dong-Zhu Duan; Chun-Li Cui; Zhong-Xing Song; Li Ren; Zheng Wang; Dao-Geng Yu (Natural Product Research, 2020)

Origin of the springtime South China Sea Warm Current in the southwestern Taiwan Strait: Evidence from seawater oxygen isotope - Dongyu Chen; Ergang Lian; Yeqiang Shu; Shouye Yang; Yalong Li; Chao Li; Pengfei Liu; Ni Su (Science China Earth Sciences, 2020)

Variation in Gut Microbiota of Captive Bengal Slow Lorises - Qingyong Ni; Xin He; Bo Zeng; Xiangyun Meng; Huailiang Xu; Ying Li; Mingyao Yang; Diyan Li; Yongfang Yao; Mingwang Zhang; Yan Li; Xiaolan Fan; et al. (Current Microbiology, 2020)

Puerarin Alleviates Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Myocardial Fibrosis by Inhibiting PARP-1 to Prevent HMGB1-Mediated TLR4-NF-κB Signaling Pathway - Shu-Yuan Ni; Xing-Long Zhong; Ze-Hua Li; Dong-Jian Huang; Wen-Ting Xu; Yan Zhou; Cai-Wen Ou; Min-Sheng Chen (Cardiovascular Toxicology, 2020)

Numerical Simulation of a Polar Ship Moving in Level Ice Based on a One-Way Coupling Method - Bao-Yu Ni; Zi-Wang Chen; Kai Zhong; Xin-Ang Li; Yan-Zhuo Xue (Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2020)
In most previous ice–ship interaction studies involving fluid effects, ice was taken as unbreakable. Building breakable level ice on water domain is still a big challenge in numerical simulation. This paper overcomes this difficulty and presents a numerical modeling of a ship moving in level ice on the water by using a one-way CFD-DEM (computational fluid dynamics-discrete element method) coupling method. The detailed numerical processes and techniques are introduced. The ice crack propagation process including radial and circular cracks have been observed. Numerical results are compared with previous experimental data and good agreement has been achieved. The results show that water resistance is an order of magnitude smaller than ice resistance during the ice-breaking process. Ice resistance shows strong oscillation along with ice failure process, which are affected by ship speed and ice thickness significantly.

Cytotoxic triquinane-type sesquiterpenoids from the endophytic fungus Cerrena sp. A593 - Hong-Xin Liu; Hai-Bo Tan; Yu-Chan Chen; Sai-Ni Li; Hao-Hua Li; Wei-Min Zhang (Natural Product Research, 2020)

An integrated system for rapid assessment of ecological quality based on remote sensing data - Qian Ding; Li Wang; Meichen Fu; Ni Huang (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020)

The Role of Arachidonic Acid Metabolism in Myocardial Ischemia–Reperfusion Injury - Changjiang Zhang; Meiling He; Lihua Ni; Ke He; Ke Su; Yinzhi Deng; Yuanhong Li; Hao Xia (Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics, 2020)

Significance of the spatial point pattern and Fry analysis in mineral exploration - Dezhi Zheng; Chunzhong Ni; Shitao Zhang; Zhong Chen; Junwei Zhong; Jun Zhu; Yujian Li; Yongfeng Yan (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2020)

Electrolytic enrichment method for tritium determination in the Arctic Ocean using liquid scintillation counter - Feng Lin; Tao Yu; Wen Yu; Jialin Ni; Li Lin (Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2020)

The impact of secondary inorganic aerosol emissions change on surface air temperature in the Northern Hemisphere - Chunjiang Zhou; Peng Liu; Gang Huang; Jintai Lin; Kaiming Hu; Lulu Chen; Jingxu Wang; Sixuan Li; Su Wang; Ruijing Ni (Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 2020)

Ablation of olfactory bulb glutamatergic neurons induces depressive-like behaviors and sleep disturbances in mice - Mao-Yun Yuan; Ze-Ka Chen; Jian Ni; Tian-Xiao Wang; Shi-Yu Jiang; Hui Dong; Wei-Min Qu; Zhi-Li Huang; Rui-Xi Li (Psychopharmacology, 2020)

Intestinal Polyp Recognition Based on Salient Codebook Locality-Constrained Linear Coding with Annular Spatial Pyramid Matching - Dongwei He; Sheng Li; Xiongxiong He; Liping Chang; Ni Zhang; Qianru Jiang (Journal of Medical and Biological Engineering, 2020)

Functional genetic variants in centrosome-related genes CEP72 and YWHAG confer susceptibility to gastric cancer - Jing Ni; Jinchen Wang; Yao Fu; Caiwang Yan; Meng Zhu; Yue Jiang; Jiaping Chen; Yanbing Ding; Xiangshan Fan; Gang Li; Guangfu Jin (Archives of Toxicology, 2020)

Annual Characteristics, Source Analysis of PM1-Bound Potentially Harmful Elements in the Eastern District of Chengdu, China - Jinjin Wang; Yi Huang; Ting Li; Huibin Shi; Min He; Xin Cheng; Shijun Ni; Chengjiang Zhang (Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 2020)

Application of convolutional neural network in predicting groundwater potential using remote sensing: a case study in southeastern Liaoning, China - Haoli Xu; Daqing Wang; Zhibin Ding; Zhengdong Deng; Yue Shi; Dehao Yu; Jie Li; Borui Ni; Xiaolan Zhao; Xin Ye (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2020)

Characterization, tissue distribution of resistin gene and the effect of fasting and refeeding on resistin mRNA expression in Siberian sturgeon ( Acipenser baerii ) - Ni Tang; Yanlin Liu; Zhengzhi Tian; Shaoqi Xu; Mei Wang; Hu Chen; Bin Wang; Ya Li; Yan Wang; Song Yang; Liulan Zhao; Defang Chen; et al. (Journal of Fish Biology, 2020)
Resistin as an adipokine identified from rodents in 2001 is involved in many biological processes. However, little is known about this gene in fish. We cloned Siberian sturgeon ( Acipenser baerii ) resistin cDNA of 795 base pairs, encoding 107 amino acids, which showed 38–40% identity to human and rodents. Real‐time quantitative PCR showed that the resistin gene was widely distributed in tissues of Siberian sturgeon, with the highest expression in liver. After fasting for 1, 3, 6 and 10 days, the expression of the resistin gene in the liver of Siberian sturgeon decreased significantly, and after refeeding on the 10 days of fasting the resistin mRNA expression increased rapidly, suggesting that resistin may play an important role in liver in response to starvation. Taken together, these results suggest that resistin may be involved in the regulation of energy homeostasis in liver.

Characterization of a major quantitative trait locus on the short arm of chromosome 4B for spike number per unit area in common wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) - Jinghui Li; Shaozhe Wen; Chaofeng Fan; Minghu Zhang; Shuai Tian; Wenjing Kang; Wenxin Zhao; Chan Bi; Qiuyan Wang; Shuang Lu; Weilong Guo; Zhongfu Ni; et al. (Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2020)

NO is involved in H2-induced adventitious rooting in cucumber by regulating the expression and interaction of plasma membrane H+-ATPase and 14-3-3 - Changxia Li; Dengjing Huang; Chunlei Wang; Ni Wang; Yandong Yao; Weifang Li; Weibiao Liao (Planta, 2020)

Analysis of pituitary transcriptomics indicates that lncRNAs are involved in the regulation of sheep estrus - Xiaoyue Li; Cunyuan Li; Yueren Xu; Rui Yao; Huixiang Li; Wei Ni; Renzhe Quan; Mengdan Zhang; Li Liu; Shuting Yu; Yaseen Ullah; Ruirui Hu; et al. (Functional & Integrative Genomics, 2020)

Source apportionment and health risk assessment of air pollution particles in eastern district of Chengdu - Yi Huang; Li Wang; Shipeng Zhang; Meng Zhang; Jinjin Wang; Xin Cheng; Ting Li; Min He; Shijun Ni (Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 2020)

Extensimonas perlucida sp. nov., a Novel Bacterium Isolated from Sludge - Qian Peng; Mengyao Sheng; Zhou Yang; Haiyan Ni; Qinfen Li; Yi Li; Jian He (Current Microbiology, 2020)

Plasma-enhanced catalytic activation of CO2 in a modified gliding arc reactor - Hao Zhang; Li Li; Ruiyang Xu; Jingying Huang; Ni Wang; Xiaodong Li; Xin Tu (Waste Disposal & Sustainable Energy, 2020)
For the first time, this paper demonstrates a synergistic effect from the combination of a gliding arc discharge plasma with a photocatalyst TiO 2 for CO 2 dissociation. The effects of adding a tray downstream the discharge and the combination of the catalyst with plasma have been investigated. Two different combination modes of plasma catalysis, i.e . , in-plasma catalysis and post-plasma catalysis, have been evaluated with the emphasis on the analysis of potential mechanisms. The results show that modifying the gliding arc reactor by the addition of a tray can enhance the fraction of gas treated by plasma, thus improving the reaction performance. An exceptional synergistic effect of combining the gliding arc discharge with TiO 2 for CO 2 activation forms in the in-plasma catalysis mode. The presence of TiO 2 significantly enhances the CO 2 conversion by 138% and the energy efficiency by 133% at a flow rate of 2 L/min. The plasma activation effect, which produces energetic electrons that can create the electron–hole pairs on the catalyst surface, is believed to be the major contributor to the generation of the plasma catalysis synergy. This mechanism has been further evidenced by the negligible influence of the post-plasma catalysis on the reaction performance.

Effects of Bacillus cereus PAS38 on Immune-Related Differentially Expressed Genes of Spleen in Broilers - Xiaoxiao Gu; Jiao Zhang; Jiajun Li; Zhenhua Wang; Jie Feng; Jianzhen Li; Kangcheng Pan; Xueqin Ni; Dong Zeng; Bo Jing; Dongmei Zhang (Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins, 2020)

Gene transfer and nucleotide sequence evolution by Gossypium cytoplasmic genomes indicates novel evolutionary characteristics - Ting-Ting Zhang; Heng Liu; Qi-Yuan Gao; Ting Yang; Jian-Ni Liu; Xiong-Feng Ma; Zhong-Hu Li (Plant Cell Reports, 2020)

Coupling and Decoupling of High Biomass Phytoplankton Production and Hypoxia in a Highly Dynamic Coastal System: The Changjiang (Yangtze River) Estuary - Feng Zhou; Fei Chai; Daji Huang; Mark Wells; Xiao Ma; Qicheng Meng; Huijie Xue; Jiliang Xuan; Pengbin Wang; Xiaobo Ni; Qiang Zhao; Chenggang Liu; et al. (Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020)

The semidominant mutation w5 impairs epicuticular wax deposition in common wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) - Linghong Li; Zhongqi Qi; Lingling Chai; Zhaoyan Chen; Tianya Wang; Mingyi Zhang; Mingshan You; Huiru Peng; Yingyin Yao; Zhaorong Hu; Mingming Xin; Weilong Guo; et al. (Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2020)

NaCl improved Cd tolerance of the euhalophyte Suaeda glauca but not the recretohalophyte Limonium aureum - Songlin Zhang; Xilu Ni; Muhammad Arif; Jie Zheng; Annastacia Stubbs; Changxiao Li (Plant and Soil, 2020)

RIG-I aggravates interstitial fibrosis via c-Myc-mediated fibroblast activation in UUO mice - Zhuanli Zhou; Jiayun Ni; Jingyao Li; Chuanbing Huo; Naijun Miao; Fan Yin; Qian Cheng; Dan Xu; Hongyan Xie; Panpan Chen; Peiqing Zheng; Yingying Zhang; et al. (Journal of Molecular Medicine, 2020)
Progressive tubulointerstitial fibrosis is the common final outcome for all kidney diseases evolving into chronic kidney disease (CKD), whereas molecular mechanisms driving fibrogenesis remain elusive. Retinoic acid-inducible gene-I (RIG-I), an intracellular pattern recognition receptor, is originally identified participating in immune response by recognizing virus RNA. Here, we revealed for the first time that RIG-I was induced in unilateral ureteral obstruction (UUO) and folic acid (FA) renal fibrosis models and moderate-degree renal fibrosis patients. Besides, we found RIG-I was mainly located in renal tubular epithelial cells and promoted the production and release of inflammatory cytokines, such as interleukin (IL)-1β and IL-6 through activation of NF-κB. Inflammatory cytokines released by tubular epithelial cells activated c-Myc-mediated TGF-β/Smad signaling in fibroblasts, which in turn aggravated interstitial fibrosis by promoting fibroblast activation and production of extracellular matrix components (ECM). Deficiency of RIG-I attenuated renal fibrosis by the regulation of inflammatory responses, c-Myc expression, and fibroblast activation. Besides, gene silencing of RIG-I reduced inflammatory cytokines in cultured tubular epithelial cells treated with Angiotensin II. Knockdown of c-Myc or c-Myc inhibitor blocked IL-1β-induced fibroblast activation. Collectively, our study demonstrates that RIG-I plays a significant role in the progress of renal fibrosis via regulating c-Myc-mediated fibroblast activation. Key messages • RIG-I was constantly elevated in kidneys from renal fibrotic mice. • RIG-I facilitated inflammatory cytokine production in tubular epithelial cells. • RIG-I aggravated renal fibrosis via c-Myc-mediated TGF-β/Smad activation.

Gypenosides Prevent H2O2-Induced Retinal Ganglion Cell Apoptosis by Concurrently Suppressing the Neuronal Oxidative Stress and Inflammatory Response - Hong-Kan Zhang; Yuan Ye; Kai-Jun Li; Zhen-ni Zhao; Jian-Feng He (Journal of Molecular Neuroscience, 2020)
Our previous study demonstrated that gypenosides (Gp) exert protective effects on retinal nerve fibers and axons in a mouse model of experimental autoimmune optic neuritis. However, the therapeutic mechanisms remain unclear. Thus, in this study, a model of oxidative damage in retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) was established to investigate the protective effect of Gp, and its possible influence on oxidative stress in RGCs. Treatment of cells with H 2 O 2 induced RGC injury owing to the generation of intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS). In addition, the activities of antioxidative enzymes decreased and the expression of inflammatory factors increased, resulting in an increase in cellular apoptosis. Gp helped RGCs to become resistant to oxidation damage by directly reducing the amount of ROS in cells and exerting protective effects against H 2 O 2 -induced apoptosis. Treatment with Gp also reduced the generation of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) and cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2), and increased nuclear respiratory factor 2 (Nrf-2) levels so as to increase the levels of heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) and glutathione peroxidase 1/2 (Gpx1/2), which can enhance antioxidation in RGCs. In conclusion, our data indicate that neuroprotection by Gp involves its antioxidation and anti-inflammation effects. Gp prevents apoptosis through a mitochondrial apoptotic pathway. This finding might provide novel insights into understanding the mechanism of the neuroprotective effects of gypenosides in the treatment of optic neuritis.

Cell membrane damage induced by continuous stress of artemisinin sustained-release microspheres (ASMs) on Microcystis aeruginosa at different physiological stages - Lixiao Ni; Feifei Yue; Jianhua Zhang; Shiyi Rong; Xuanyu Liu; Yifei Wang; Peifang Wang; Danye Li; Na Wang; Hanqi Wu; Shiyin Li (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020)

Earliest-known intentionally deformed human cranium from Asia - Xijun Ni; Qiang Li; Thomas A. Stidham; Yangheshan Yang; Qiang Ji; Changzhu Jin; Khizar Samiullah (Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 2020)

Identification of a novel D3 allele playing a role in nitrogen utilization - Ying Wang; Zhu Zhu; Ying Sun; Jile Ni; Jia Xie; Yangyang Li; Xiaobo Zhang; Xiaozhu Wen; Yuzhen Xiong; Xianchun Sang (Euphytica, 2020)

Effect of Freezing–Thawing Cycle on Soil Active Organic Carbon Fractions and Enzyme Activities in the Wetland of Sanjiang Plain, Northeast China - Fu Li; Shuying Zang; Yingnan Liu; Lan Li; Hongwei Ni (Wetlands, 2020)

Latest Middle Miocene fauna and flora from Kumkol Basin of northern Qinghai-Xizang Plateau and paleoenvironment - Qiang Li; Xinying Zhou; Xijun Ni; Bihong Fu; Tao Deng (Science China Earth Sciences, 2020)

Paleogene mammalian fauna exchanges and the paleogeographic pattern in Asia - Xijun Ni; Qiang Li; Chi Zhang; Khizar Samiullah; Limin Zhang; Yangheshan Yang; Wenxin Cao (Science China Earth Sciences, 2020)

GABAergic Abnormalities Associated with Sensorimotor Cortico-striatal Community Structural Deficits in ErbB4 Knockout Mice and First-Episode Treatment-Naïve Patients with Schizophrenia - Chengcheng Zhang; Peiyan Ni; Yikang Liu; Yang Tian; Jinxue Wei; Bo Xiang; Liansheng Zhao; Xiaojing Li; Xiaohong Ma; Wei Deng; Wanjun Guo; Rongjun Ni; et al. (Neuroscience Bulletin, 2020)

River damming affects energy flow and food web structure: a case study from a subtropical large river - Huijun Ru; Yunfeng Li; Qiang Sheng; Liqiao Zhong; Zhaohui Ni (Hydrobiologia, 2020)

The Role of Biochar in Reducing the Bioavailability and Migration of Persistent Organic Pollutants in Soil–Plant Systems: A Review - Ni Ni; Deyang Kong; Wenzhu Wu; Jian He; Zhengjun Shan; Juying Li; Yezhi Dou; Yueqing Zhang; Yang Song; Xin Jiang (Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 2020)

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

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

Evidence for the paternal mitochondrial DNA in the crucian carp-like fish lineage with hybrid origin - Shi Wang; Ni Jiao; Lu Zhao; Meiwen Zhang; Pei Zhou; Xuexue Huang; Fangzhou Hu; Conghui Yang; Yuqin Shu; Wuhui Li; Chun Zhang; Min Tao; et al. (Science China Life Sciences, 2020)

Preliminary study of the urinary proteome in Li and Han ethnic individuals from Hainan - Fanshuang Zhang; Xundou Li; Yanying Ni; Guangliang Shan; Youhe Gao (Science China Life Sciences, 2020)

Dynamic controls on riverine pCO2 and CO2 outgassing in the Dry-hot Valley Region of Southwest China - Maofei Ni; Jiachen Luo; Siyue Li (Aquatic Sciences, 2020)

TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access - Jens Kattge; Gerhard Bönisch; Sandra Díaz; Sandra Lavorel; Iain Colin Prentice; Paul Leadley; Susanne Tautenhahn; Gijsbert D. A. Werner; Tuomas Aakala; Mehdi Abedi; Alicia T. R. Acosta; George C. Adamidis; et al. (Global Change Biology, 2020)
Plant traits—the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological characteristics of plants—determine how plants respond to environmental factors, affect other trophic levels, and influence ecosystem properties and their benefits and detriments to people. Plant trait data thus represent the basis for a vast area of research spanning from evolutionary biology, community and functional ecology, to biodiversity conservation, ecosystem and landscape management, restoration, biogeography and earth system modelling. Since its foundation in 2007, the TRY database of plant traits has grown continuously. It now provides unprecedented data coverage under an open access data policy and is the main plant trait database used by the research community worldwide. Increasingly, the TRY database also supports new frontiers of trait‐based plant research, including the identification of data gaps and the subsequent mobilization or measurement of new data. To support this development, in this article we evaluate the extent of the trait data compiled in TRY and analyse emerging patterns of data coverage and representativeness. Best species coverage is achieved for categorical traits—almost complete coverage for ‘plant growth form’. However, most traits relevant for ecology and vegetation modelling are characterized by continuous intraspecific variation and trait–environmental relationships. These traits have to be measured on individual plants in their respective environment. Despite unprecedented data coverage, we observe a humbling lack of completeness and representativeness of these continuous traits in many aspects. We, therefore, conclude that reducing data gaps and biases in the TRY database remains a key challenge and requires a coordinated approach to data mobilization and trait measurements. This can only be achieved in collaboration with other initiatives.

Sliding Mode Control in Backstepping Framework for a Class of Nonlinear Systems - He Shen; Joseph Iorio; Ni Li (Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2019)
Both backstepping control (BC) and sliding mode control (SMC) have been studied extensively over the past few decades, and many variations of controller designs based on them can be found in the literature. In this paper, sliding mode control in a backstepping framework (SBC) for a class of nonlinear systems is proposed and its connections to SMC studied. SMC is shown to be a special case of SBC. Without losing generality, the regulation control problem is studied, while tracking control is achieved by replacing the states with the difference between the states and their desired values. The SBCs are designed for nonlinear single-input-single-output (SISO) and multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems with the presence of bounded uncertainties from unmodeled dynamics, parametric variations, disturbances, and measurement noise, and the closed loop systems are proven to be asymptotically stable using the Lyapunov stability theory. The comparison of SBC to SMC from the design process, chattering effects, and chatter reduction are also discussed. SBC inherits the merits of backstepping control in choosing gains independently, while leveraging useful nonlinear dynamics for controller design simplification. Hence, it provides more flexibility in controller design in the sense of controlling coverage speed and making use of useful nonlinearities in the dynamics. To demonstrate the effectiveness of SBC, an application on cruise tracking control of an autonomous underwater vehicle was studied.

Non-destructive Bioindicator of Little Egret (Egratta Garzetta) to Assess the Pollution of Highly Toxic Organic Pollutants in Poyang Lake Wetland - Zhonghua Zhao; Qianyu Li; Caiying Ni; Lu Zhang (Wetlands, 2019)

Selection and verification of candidate reference genes for gene expression by quantitative RT-PCR in Hibiscus hamabo Sieb.et Zucc. - Longjie Ni; Zhiquan Wang; Liangqin Liu; Jinbo Guo; Huogen Li; Chunsun Gu (Trees, 2019)

Interaction Between Variations in Dopamine D2 and Serotonin 2A Receptor is Associated with Short-Term Response to Antipsychotics in Schizophrenia - Liansheng Zhao; Huijuan Wang; Yamin Zhang; Jinxue Wei; Peiyan Ni; Hongyan Ren; Gang Li; Qiang Wang; Gavin P Reynolds; Weihua Yue; Wei Deng; Hao Yan; et al. (Neuroscience Bulletin, 2019)

Phosphate-Solubilizing Pseudomonas sp. Strain P34-L Promotes Wheat Growth by Colonizing the Wheat Rhizosphere and Improving the Wheat Root System and Soil Phosphorus Nutritional Status - Xixi Liu; Xiaoxun Jiang; Xiangyi He; Weirong Zhao; Yuanyuan Cao; Tingting Guo; Ting Li; Haiting Ni; Xinyun Tang (Journal of Plant Growth Regulation, 2019)

Effects of parental genetic distance on offspring growth performance in Pinus massoniana: significance of parental-selection in a clonal seed orchard - ZhouXian Ni; TianDao Bai; YaBin Chen; YiFa Huang; Li-An Xu (Euphytica, 2019)

Effects of cyanobacteria decomposition on the remobilization and ecological risk of heavy metals in Taihu Lake - Lixiao Ni; Guoxiu Gu; Shiyi Rong; Lingling Hu; Peifang Wang; Shiyin Li; Dandan Li; Xuanyu Liu; Yifei Wang; Kumud Acharya (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2019)

Comparative Serum Proteomic Analysis of the Effects of Sodium Selenate on a Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease - Ping Chen; Li-Xiang Wang; Xiao-Jing Sui; Shui-Ming Li; Yong Wang; Qiong Liu; Jia-Zuan Ni (Biological Trace Element Research, 2019)

The complete mitochondrial genome and phylogeny of a wild goral from the western Sichuan of China (Naemorhedus caudatus griseus) - Yongfang Yao; Diyan Li; Meng Xie; Qingyong Ni; Mingwang Zhang; Huailiang Xu (Conservation Genetics Resources, 2019)

Shear creep tests and creep constitutive model of marble with structural plane - Zhi-Lei He; Zhen-De Zhu; Xiao-Hui Ni; Zhi-jing Li (European Journal of Environmental and Civil Engineering, 2019)

Genetic dissection of a major QTL for kernel weight spanning the Rht-B1 locus in bread wheat - Dengan Xu; Weie Wen; Luping Fu; Faji Li; Jihu Li; Li Xie; Xianchun Xia; Zhongfu Ni; Zhonghu He; Shuanghe Cao (Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2019)

Fine mapping and candidate gene analysis of a QTL associated with leaf rolling index on chromosome 4 of maize (Zea mays L.) - Lulu Gao; Guanghui Yang; Yufeng Li; Nannan Fan; Hongjian Li; Ming Zhang; Ruibin Xu; Mingyi Zhang; Aiju Zhao; Zhongfu Ni; Yirong Zhang (Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2019)

Relationship between the application dosage of PP333 and the incidence of twig dieback in Chinese bayberry - Fangyong Chen; Yin Wang; Haizhi Ni; Yuping Li; Bangguo Yan (Phytoparasitica, 2019)

Significant population methylation divergence and local environmental influence in an invasive ascidian Ciona intestinalis at fine geographical scales - Ping Ni; Kieran J. Murphy; Russell C. Wyeth; Cory D. Bishop; Shiguo Li; Aibin Zhan (Marine Biology, 2019)

Improving the attractiveness and accessibility of campus green space for developing a sustainable university environment - Xinqin Li; Guoping Ni; Bart Dewancker (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2019)

3H-117, a structural protein of Heliothis virescens ascovirus 3h (HvAV-3h) - Ying Zhao; Huan Yu; Lei He; Ni Li; Guo-Hua Huang (Virus Genes, 2019)

Association analysis of polymorphism in the NR6A1 gene with the lumbar vertebrae number traits in sheep - Xiangyu Zhang; Cunyuan Li; Xiaoyue Li; Zhijin Liu; Wei Ni; Yang Cao; Yang Yao; Esenbay Islamov; Junchang Wei; Xiaoxu Hou; Shengwei Hu (Genes & Genomics, 2019)

Exploring the Potential of Mesoporous Silica as a Carrier for Puerarin: Characterization, Physical Stability, and In Vivo Pharmacokinetics - Zhi Wang; Bei-Ni Ye; Yong-Tai Zhang; Jian-Xu Xie; Wan-Si Li; Hong-Tao Zhang; Ying Liu; Nian-Ping Feng (AAPS PharmSciTech, 2019)

Allicin inhibits mouse colorectal tumorigenesis through suppressing the activation of STAT3 signaling pathway - Xiang Li; Jiahui Ni; Yixin Tang; Xu Wang; Huanhuan Tang; Haidong Li; Sulin Zhang; Xiaoyan Shen (Natural Product Research, 2019)

The characteristics of the structure, strain and kinematic vorticity of the Wulian detachment fault zone, Shandong Peninsula, China - Jinlong Ni; Junlai Liu; Yujie Sun; Xiaoxiao Shi; Shen Li (Science China Earth Sciences, 2019)

Characterization of enzyme-immobilized catalytic support and its exploitation for the degradation of methoxychlor in simulated polluted soils - Yan Huang; Jie Li; Yuxiang Yang; Hongming Yuan; Qinmei Wei; Xiangnong Liu; Yi Zhao; Chaoying Ni (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2019)

Phytotoxicity and oxidative effects of typical quaternary ammonium compounds on wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) seedlings - Yafei Li; Can Zhou; Shizhong Wang; Qingqi Lin; Zhuobiao Ni; Hao Qiu; Jean Louis Morel; Rongliang Qiu (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2019)

Effect of hillslope aspect on landform characteristics and erosion rates - Mian Li; Xuejian Shi; Zhenzhou Shen; Er Yang; Hongzhe Bao; Yongxin Ni (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2019)

Rainfall seasonality changes and its possible teleconnections with global climate events in China - Shulin Deng; Ni Yang; Manchun Li; Liang Cheng; Zhenjie Chen; Yanming Chen; Tan Chen; Xiaoqiang Liu (Climate Dynamics, 2019)

The Yudomski event and subsequent decline: new evidence from δ34S data of lower and middle Cambrian evaporites in the Tarim Basin, western China - Fan-wei Meng; Zhi-li Zhang; James D. Schiffbauer; Qin-gong Zhuo; Meng-jun Zhao; Pei Ni; Wen-hang Liu; Naveed Ahsan; Saif Ur Rehman (Carbonates and Evaporites, 2019)

Stiffness degradation of shear walls under cyclic loading: experimental study and modelling - Xiangyong Ni; Shuangyin Cao; Yizhu Li; Shuai Liang (Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 2019)

Identification of genomewide single-nucleotide polymorphisms associated with presummer, summer and autumn bolls in upland cotton - Guo-Li Feng; Feng-Yan Zhai; Hong-Liang Liu; Ni-Jiang Ai (Journal of Genetics, 2019)

Microbiological contamination in donor corneas preserved for medium-term - Gui-gang Li; Hui Zhu; Cai-ni Ji; Xin-jie Zang (Cell and Tissue Banking, 2019)

Construction of a high-density genetic map of tree peony (Paeonia suffruticosa Andr. Moutan) using restriction site associated DNA sequencing (RADseq) approach - Shiming Li; Shuzuo Lv; Kang Yu; Zhanying Wang; Yunfei Li; Xuemei Ni; Xin Jin; Gang Huang; Jie Wang; Shu Cheng; Erqiang Wang; Gengyun Zhang; et al. (Tree Genetics & Genomes, 2019)

Effect of Apolipoprotein E Genotypes on Huntington’s Disease Phenotypes in a Han Chinese Population - Xiao-Yan Li; Yan-Bin Zhang; Miao Xu; Hong-Rong Cheng; Yi Dong; Wang Ni; Hong-Lei Li; Zhi-Ying Wu (Neuroscience Bulletin, 2019)

Dorsolateral striatal miR-134 modulates excessive methamphetamine intake in self-administering rats - Jing-Jing Shi; Dan-Ni Cao; Hui-Fen Liu; Zhi-Yuan Wang; Guan-Yi Lu; Ning Wu; Wen-Hua Zhou; Jin Li (Metabolic Brain Disease, 2019)

Long non-coding RNA Mirt2 relieves lipopolysaccharide-induced injury in PC12 cells by suppressing miR-429 - Haibo Li; Yu Xu; Guoxiu Wang; Xuerong Chen; Wenqing Liang; Huawei Ni (Journal of Physiology and Biochemistry, 2019)

Binding properties of two ruthenium(II) polypyridyl complexes [Ru(bpy)2(dppz-Br)]2+ and [Ru(dmb)2(dppz-Br)]2+ with the RNA poly(U)•poly(A)*poly(U) triplex - Zanru Tan; Juan Zhu; Wen Ni; Xiaohua Liu; Yi Li; Lifeng Tan (JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, 2019)

Effect of light quality on regeneration and naphthoquinones accumulation of Arnebia euchroma - Jia Hu; Yao Leng; Yuanyuan Jiang; Su Ni; Li Zhang (Plant Biotechnology Reports, 2019)

Antitoxin HigA inhibits virulence gene mvfR expression in Pseudomonas aeruginosa - Yunxue Guo; Chenglong Sun; Yangmei Li; Kaihao Tang; Songwei Ni; Xiaoxue Wang (Environmental Microbiology, 2019)
Summary Toxin/antitoxin (TA) systems are ubiquitous in bacteria and archaea and participate in biofilm formation and stress responses. The higBA locus of the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa encodes a type II TA system. Previous work found that the higBA operon is cotranscribed and that HigB toxin regulates biofilm formation and virulence expression. In this study, we demonstrate that HigA antitoxin is produced at a higher level than HigB and that higA mRNA is expressed separately from a promoter inside higB during the late stationary phase. Critically, HigA represses the expression of mvfR , which is an important virulence‐related regulator, by binding to a conserved HigA palindrome (5′‐ TTAAC GTTAA ‐3′) in the mvfR promoter, and the binding of HigB to HigA derepresses this process. During the late stationary phase, excess HigA represses the expression of mvfR and higBA . However, in the presence of aminoglycoside antibiotics where Lon protease is activated, the degradation of HigA by Lon increases P. aeruginosa virulence by simultaneously derepressing mvfR and higB transcription. Therefore, this study reveals that the antitoxin of the P. aeruginosa TA system is integrated into the key virulence regulatory network of the host and functions as a transcriptional repressor to control the production of virulence factors.

Is phosphorus a limiting factor to regulate the growth of phytoplankton in Daya Bay, northern South China Sea: a mesocosm experiment - Xingyu Song; Meiting Tan; Ge Xu; Xinying Su; Jihua Liu; Gaungyan Ni; Yao Li; Yehui Tan; Liangmin Huang; Pingping Shen; Gang Li (Ecotoxicology, 2019)

Acetylcholinesterase inhibitory active metabolites from the endophytic fungus Colletotrichum sp. YMF432 - Zhe Li; Ni Ma; Pei-Ji Zhao (Natural Product Research, 2019)

Apparent Correlations Between AMPK Expression and Brain Inflammatory Response and Neurological Function Factors in Rats with Chronic Renal Failure - Li Yang; Ni-Rong Gong; Qin Zhang; Ya-Bin Ma; Hui Zhou (Journal of Molecular Neuroscience, 2019)

Effects of short period feeding polysaccharides from marine macroalga, Ulva prolifera on growth and resistance of Litopenaeus vannamei against Vibrio parahaemolyticus infection - Hongxing Ge; Qian Ni; Zhao Chen; Jian Li; Fazhen Zhao (Journal of Applied Phycology, 2019)

The influence of syntectonic sedimentation on thrust belt deformation: a kinematic model example from the triangle zone within the Western Kunlun thrust belt - Tong Sun; Jiafu Qi; Qiang Ni; Peiling Ma; Changwei Han; Qiang Li; Pengyu Gong (International Journal of Earth Sciences, 2019)

Inequality of female health and its relation with urbanization level in China: geographic variation perspective - Hao Yang; Haixia Pu; Shaobing Wang; Runxiang Ni; Bin Li (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2019)

The neural signatures of egocentric bias in normative decision-making - Chunliang Feng; Xue Feng; Li Wang; Lili Wang; Ruolei Gu; Aiping Ni; Gopikrishna Deshpande; Zhihao Li; Yue-Jia Luo (Brain Imaging and Behavior, 2019)

Substitution of His260 residue alters the thermostability of Pseudoalteromonas carrageenovora arylsulfatase - Yanbing Zhu; Xiaoqian Yin; Han Liu; Hebin Li; Yanhong Chen; Lijun Li; Anfeng Xiao; Hui Ni (Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2019)

Phylogeography suggest the Yili Valley being the glacial refuge of the genus Ixiolirion (Amaryllidaceae) in China - Yan Li; Feng Song; Xue-Ni Zhang; Guang-Hui Lv (Systematics and Biodiversity, 2019)

Characteristics of runoff processes and nitrogen loss via surface flow and interflow from weathered granite slopes of Southeast China - Long-zhou Deng; Kai Fei; Tian-yu Sun; Li-ping Zhang; Xiao-juan Fan; Liang Ni (Journal of Mountain Science, 2019)

Measuring the area of cultivated land reclaimed from rural settlements using an unmanned aerial vehicle - Cunjian Yang; Guanghong Xu; Hechao Li; Defei Yang; He Huang; Jing Ni; Xiao Li; Xiao Xiang (Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2019)

Responses of nitrogen concentrations and pools to multiple environmental change drivers: A meta‐analysis across terrestrial ecosystems - Kai Yue; Yan Peng; Dario A. Fornara; Koenraad Van Meerbeek; Lars Vesterdal; Wanqin Yang; Changhui Peng; Bo Tan; Wei Zhou; Zhenfeng Xu; Xiangyin Ni; Li Zhang; et al. (Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2019)
Aim We sought to understand how the individual and combined effects of multiple environmental change drivers differentially influence terrestrial nitrogen (N) concentrations and N pools and whether the interactive effects of these drivers are mainly antagonistic, synergistic or additive. Location Worldwide. Time period Contemporary. Major taxa studied Plants, soil, and soil microbes in terrestrial ecosystems. Methods We synthesized data from manipulative field studies from 758 published articles to estimate the individual, combined and interactive effects of key environmental change drivers (elevated CO 2 , warming, N addition, phosphorus addition, increased rainfall and drought) on plant, soil, and soil microbe N concentrations and pools using meta‐analyses. We assessed the influences of moderator variables on these effects through structural equation modelling. Results We found that (a) N concentrations and N pools were significantly affected by the individual and combined effects of multiple drivers, with N addition (either alone or in combination with another driver) showing the strongest positive effects; (b) the individual and combined effects of these drivers differed significantly between N concentrations and N pools in plants, but seldom in soils and microbes; (c) additive effects of driver pairs on N concentrations and pools were much more common than synergistic or antagonistic effects across plants, soils and microbes; and (d) environmental and experimental factors were important moderators of the individual, combined and interactive effects of these drivers on terrestrial N. Main conclusions Our results indicate that terrestrial N concentrations and N pools, especially those of plants, can be significantly affected by the individual and combined effects of environmental change drivers, with the interactive effects of these drivers being mostly additive. Our findings are important because they contribute to the development of models to better predict how altered N availability affects ecosystem carbon cycling under future environmental changes.

The anxiolytic effects of Bai Le Mian capsule, a traditional Chinese hypnotic in mice - Tian-Xiao Wang; Yu-Er Wu; Wei Xu; Wan-Kun Gong; Jian Ni; Wei-Min Qu; Zhi-Li Huang (Sleep and Biological Rhythms, 2019)

Folate/Vitamin B Alleviates Hyperhomocysteinemia-Induced Alzheimer-Like Pathologies in Rat Retina - Jing Guo; Shaozhou Ni; Qihang Li; Jian-Zhi Wang; Ying Yang (Neuroscience Bulletin, 2019)

Treatment with MQA, a Derivative of Caffeoylquinic Acid, Provides Neuroprotective Effects against Cerebral Ischemia Through Suppression of the p38 Pathway and Oxidative Stress in Rats - Long Chen; Dan-ni Liu; Yu Wang; Xue-ying Liu; Shuai Han; Ke Zhang; Guo-yu Li; Xing Tian; Hang-yu Wang; Jin-hui Wang (Journal of Molecular Neuroscience, 2019)

Integration of white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) and green seaweed (Ulva prolifera) in minimum-water exchange aquaculture system - Hong-xing Ge; Qian Ni; Jian Li; Ji-tao Li; Zhao Chen; Fa-zhen Zhao (Journal of Applied Phycology, 2019)

Novel mutations in ZP1, ZP2, and ZP3 cause female infertility due to abnormal zona pellucida formation - Zhou Zhou; Caixia Ni; Ling Wu; Biaobang Chen; Yao Xu; Zhihua Zhang; Jian Mu; Bin Li; Zheng Yan; Jing Fu; Wenjing Wang; Lin Zhao; et al. (Human Genetics, 2019)

Calpain-2 promotes MKP-1 expression protecting cardiomyocytes in both in vitro and in vivo mouse models of doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity - Dong Zheng; Zhaoliang Su; Yi Zhang; Rui Ni; Guo-Chang Fan; Jeffrey Robbins; Long-Sheng Song; Jianmin Li; Tianqing Peng (Archives of Toxicology, 2019)

A multi‐scalar evaluation of differential impacts of canonical ENSO and ENSO Modoki on drought in China - Shulin Deng; Liang Cheng; Kang Yang; Yanming Chen; Yu Gao; Ni Yang; Manchun Li (International Journal of Climatology, 2019)
China has experienced alarming drought events during recent decades. In this study, we investigated monthly drought severity related to the eastern Pacific cooling (EPC), eastern Pacific warming (EPW), and central Pacific warming (CPW), and analysed the differential influence of canonical ENSO (c‐ENSO) and El Niño Modoki (ENSO_M) events on monthly droughts severity based on the SPEI at multiple timescales in China. The results show that (a) EPC episodes negatively affected 1‐ and 3‐month drought severity in southeast and northeast China with negative anomalies lower than −0.4 (

Assessing the response of satellite sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence and MODIS vegetation products to soil moisture from 2010 to 2017: a case in Yunnan Province of China - Zhuoya Ni; Hongyuan Huo; Shihao Tang; Zhao-Liang Li; Zhigang Liu; Shan Xu; Binglong Chen (International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2019)

Fast and accurate measurement of spectral emissivity with a portable field infrared spectrometer: ancillary equipment and methods - YuZe Zhang; Li Ni; Hua Wu; XiaoGuang Jiang; Ying Han (International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2019)

The quantitative assessment of the public excess disease burden advanced by inhalable particulate matter under different air quality standard targets in Tianjin, China - Qiang Zeng; Yang Ni; Guoxing Li; Dezheng Wang; Pei Li; Wenlong Zheng; Xin Wang; Guohong Jiang (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2019)

Stromatolites in Middle Ordovician carbonate–evaporite sequences and their carbon and sulfur isotopes stratigraphy, Ordos Basin, northwestern China - Fan-Wei Meng; Zhi-li Zhang; Xian-qin Yan; Pei Ni; Wen-Hang Liu; Fu Fan; Gu-Wei Xie (Carbonates and Evaporites, 2019)

Transcriptomic analysis of cells in response to EV71 infection and 2Apro as a trigger for apoptosis via TXNIP gene - Chenguang Yao; Kanghong Hu; Caili Xi; Ni Li; Yanhong Wei (Genes & Genomics, 2019)

Numerical assessments of recharge-dominated groundwater flow and transport in the nearshore reclamation area in western Taiwan - Chuen-Fa Ni; Wei-Ci Li; Shaohua Marko Hsu; I-Hsien Lee; Chi-Ping Lin (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2019)

Oligosaccharides as co-encapsulating agents: effect on oral Lactobacillus fermentum survival in a simulated gastrointestinal tract - Ning Liao; Baolong Luo; Jing Gao; Xiaojuan Li; Zhixia Zhao; Yan Zhang; Yongqing Ni; Fengwei Tian (Biotechnology Letters, 2019)

Angiogenesis in pancreatic cancer: current research status and clinical implications - Shuo Li; Hua-Xiang Xu; Chun-Tao Wu; Wen-Quan Wang; Wei Jin; He-Li Gao; Hao Li; Shi-Rong Zhang; Jin-Zhi Xu; Zi-Hao Qi; Quan-Xing Ni; Xian-Jun Yu; et al. (Angiogenesis, 2019)

Overexpression and characterization of a thermostable β-agarase producing neoagarotetraose from a marine isolate Microbulbifer sp. AG1 - Yanbing Zhu; He Gao; Hebin Li; Hui Ni; Zedong Jiang; Lijun Li; Anfeng Xiao (Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2019)

Direct and indirect effects of climate on richness drive the latitudinal diversity gradient in forest trees - Chengjin Chu; James A. Lutz; Kamil Král; Tomáš Vrška; Xue Yin; Jonathan A. Myers; Iveren Abiem; Alfonso Alonso; Norm Bourg; David F.R.P. Burslem; Min Cao; Hazel Chapman; et al. (Ecology Letters, 2019)
Climate is widely recognised as an important determinant of the latitudinal diversity gradient. However, most existing studies make no distinction between direct and indirect effects of climate, which substantially hinders our understanding of how climate constrains biodiversity globally. Using data from 35 large forest plots, we test hypothesised relationships amongst climate, topography, forest structural attributes (stem abundance, tree size variation and stand basal area) and tree species richness to better understand drivers of latitudinal tree diversity patterns. Climate influences tree richness both directly, with more species in warm, moist, aseasonal climates and indirectly, with more species at higher stem abundance. These results imply direct limitation of species diversity by climatic stress and more rapid (co‐)evolution and narrower niche partitioning in warm climates. They also support the idea that increased numbers of individuals associated with high primary productivity are partitioned to support a greater number of species.

Biomass, activity and structure of rhizosphere soil microbial community under different metallophytes in a mining site - Wenhao Yang; Pei Li; Christopher Rensing; Wuzhong Ni; Shihe Xing (Plant and Soil, 2019)

Correlation between S100A11 and the TGF-β1/SMAD4 pathway and its effects on the proliferation and apoptosis of pancreatic cancer cell line PANC-1 - Yi-Fei Ji; Tao Li; Feng Jiang; Wen-Kai Ni; Cheng-Qi Guan; Zhao-Xiu Liu; Cui-Hua Lu; Run-Zhou Ni; Wei Wu; Ming-Bing Xiao (Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, 2019)

Identification of a novel strain, Streptomyces blastmyceticus JZB130180, and evaluation of its biocontrol efficacy against Monilinia fructicola - Mi Ni; Qiong Wu; Hong-li Wang; Wei-cheng Liu; Bin Hu; Dian-peng Zhang; Juan Zhao; De-wen Liu; Cai-ge Lu (Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE B, 2019)

Alterations in the Neurobehavioral Phenotype and ZnT3/CB-D28k Expression in the Cerebral Cortex Following Lithium-Pilocarpine-Induced Status Epilepticus: the Ameliorative Effect of Leptin - Hong Ni; Su-hong Chen; Li-li Li; Mei-fang Jin (Biological Trace Element Research, 2019)

P2X4R promotes airway remodeling by acting on the phenotype switching of bronchial smooth muscle cells in rats - Li Wang; Xiaoqian Feng; Bing Hu; Qingqing Xia; Xiuqin Ni; Yinli Song (Purinergic Signalling, 2018)

β2-AR regulates the expression of AKR1B1 in human pancreatic cancer cells and promotes their proliferation via the ERK1/2 pathway - Ming-Bing Xiao; Dan-Dan Jin; Yu-Jie Jiao; Wen-Kai Ni; Jin-Xia Liu; Li-Shuai Qu; Cui-Hua Lu; Run-Zhou Ni; Feng Jiang; Wei-Chang Chen (Molecular Biology Reports, 2018)

Neuregulin-1β modulates myogenesis in septic mouse serum-treated C2C12 myotubes in vitro through PPARγ/NF-κB signaling - Li Liu; Xueru Liu; Yiping Bai; Ni Tang; Jie Li; Yingying Zhang; Jiali Wu; Xiaobin Wang; Jicheng Wei (Molecular Biology Reports, 2018)

Contourlet-based hippocampal magnetic resonance imaging texture features for multivariant classification and prediction of Alzheimer’s disease - Ni Gao; Li-Xin Tao; Jian Huang; Feng Zhang; Xia Li; Finbarr O’Sullivan; Si-Peng Chen; Si-Jia Tian; Gehendra Mahara; Yan-Xia Luo; Qi Gao; Xiang-Tong Liu; et al. (Metabolic Brain Disease, 2018)

Primary study on the hypoglycemic mechanism of 5rolGLP-HV in STZ-induced type 2 diabetes mellitus mice - Yanan Wang; Minggang Li; Zaizhong Ni (Journal of Biosciences, 2018)

Influence of plant structure and flow path interactions on the plant purification system: dynamic evolution of the SO2 pollution - Ni Li; Zhe Wang; Zhongchao Zhang (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2018)

Development and characterization of chloroplast microsatellite markers for Pinus massoniana and their application in Pinus (Pinaceae) species - Zhouxian Ni; Pengyan Zhou; Meng Xu; Li-An Xu (Journal of Genetics, 2018)

The complete mitochondrial genome sequence and phylogenetic analysis of white-lipped deer (Cervus albirostris) - Pu Zhao; Huailiang Xu; Diyan Li; Meng Xie; Huaming Xu; Jiayun Wu; Anxiang Wen; Qingyong Ni; Mingwang Zhang; Qin Wang; Guangxiang Zhu; Tao He; et al. (Conservation Genetics Resources, 2018)

Uptake effects of toxic heavy metals from growth soils into jujube and persimmon of China - Yuewen Zheng; Danyu Shen; Shutian Wu; Yongxiang Han; Shiliang Li; Fubin Tang; Zhanglin Ni; Runhong Mo; Yihua Liu (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2018)

The primate extinction crisis in China: immediate challenges and a way forward - Baoguo Li; Ming Li; Jinhua Li; Pengfei Fan; Qingyong Ni; Jiqi Lu; Xuming Zhou; Yongcheng Long; Zhigang Jiang; Peng Zhang; Zhipang Huang; Chenming Huang; et al. (Biodiversity and Conservation, 2018)

Secondary metabolites from the Colletotrichum gloeosporioides A12, an endophytic fungus derived from Aquilaria sinensis - Hong-Xin Liu; Hai-Bo Tan; Yu-Chan Chen; Sai-Ni Li; Hao-Hua Li; Wei-Min Zhang (Natural Product Research, 2018)

Natural variation ofCsSTOP1in tea plant (Camellia sinensis) related to aluminum tolerance - Hua Zhao; Wei Huang; Yange Zhang; Ziwei Zhang; Yong Li; Che Tang; Jie Huang; Dejiang Ni (Plant and Soil, 2018)

Antidepressant-like action of agmatine in the acute and sub-acute mouse models of depression: a receptor mechanism study - Zhao-Di Chen; Wen-Qiang Chen; Zhi-Yuan Wang; Dan-Ni Cao; Ning Wu; Jin Li (Metabolic Brain Disease, 2018)

Modulation of miR-139-5p on chronic morphine-induced, naloxone-precipitated cAMP overshoot in vitro - Dan-Ni Cao; Jing-Jing Shi; Ning Wu; Jin Li (Metabolic Brain Disease, 2018)

Characterization, tissue distribution of apela and periprandial, fasting and refeeding changes of apela mRNA in Siberian sturgeon Acipenser baerii - Ni Tang; Jin Hao; Xin Zhang; Yuan B. Wu; Shu Y. Wang; Jin W. Qi; Zhen Z. Tian; Bin Wang; Hu Chen; De F. Chen; Zhi Q. Li (Journal of Fish Biology, 2018)
Apela identified from zebrafish Danio rerio for the first time in 2013 is a novel endogenous peptide ligand for the apelin receptor. To study the role of apela in regulating fish feeding, the complementary (c) DNA sequence of apela of Siberian sturgeon Acipenser baerii was cloned for the first time. The apela cDNA fragment of 836 bp was obtained by cloning. The open reading frame (ORF) of apela was 165 bp encoding a 54 amino acid, including 22 amino acids signal peptide and two proteolytic sites. Phylogenetic tree analysis showed that A. baerii apela was clustered with mammalian and amphibian sequences. A. baerii apela messeger (m)RNA was widely distributed in 11 tissues related to feeding, with high expressions in brain, oesophagus and stomach, especially in the brain. The level of apela mRNA in brain increased significantly after feeding. On the first day of fasting, apela expression in brain was significantly lower than that of the fed group, but after fasting for 3–15 days, the expression of apela in A. baerii brain was significantly higher than that in the fed group. After refeeding apela mRNA expression was obviously reduced. These results suggest that apela plays a bidirectional role in feeding regulation of A. baerii , which may serve as a short‐term satiation factor and a long‐term hunger factor.

Identification and comparison of microRNAs in pituitary gland during prenatal and postnatal stages of sheep by deep sequencing - Xiaoyue Li; Cunyuan Li; Wei Ni; Dawei Wang; Xiaoxu Hou; Zhijin Liu; Yang Cao; Yang Yao; Xiangyu Zhang; Shengwei Hu (Journal of Genetics, 2018)

Complete mitochondrial genome and phylogenetic analysis of Sichuan deer (Cervus elaphus macneilli) - Qin Zhao; Huailiang Xu; Diyan Li; Meng Xie; Qingyong Ni; Mingwang Zhang; Yongfang Yao (Conservation Genetics Resources, 2018)

The complete mitochondrial genome sequence of a wild forest musk deer (Moschus berezovskii) - Qian Su; Yongfang Yao; Diyan Li; Huaming Xu; Jiayun Wu; Anxiang Wen; Meng Xie; Qingyong Ni; Mingwang Zhang; Huailiang Xu (Conservation Genetics Resources, 2018)

The complete mitochondrial genome of Myanmar warty newt Tylototriton shanorum (Salamandridae: Tylototriton) - Mingwang Zhang; Ye Jiang; Fuyao Han; Qingyong Ni; Ying Li; Yongfang Yao; Huailiang Xu (Conservation Genetics Resources, 2018)

The entire mitochondrial genome of Vietnam Warty Newt Paramesotriton deloustali (Salamandridae: Paramesotriton) with a new distribution record from China - Mingwang Zhang; Fuyao Han; Jiang Ye; Qingyong Ni; Ying Li; Yongfang Yao; Huailiang Xu (Conservation Genetics Resources, 2018)

3D FEM simulation of responses of LWD multi-mode resistivity imaging sonde - Zheng-Ming Kang; Shi-Zhen Ke; Xin Li; Jin-Tai Mi; Wei-Ning Ni; Ming-Yu Li (Applied Geophysics, 2018)

Investigation on pseudorabies prevalence in Chinese swine breeding farms in 2013–2016 - Yingyi Liu; Shuo Zhang; Qi Xu; Jiajun Wu; Xinyan Zhai; Shuo Li; Jing Wang; Jianqiang Ni; Lin Yuan; Xiaohui Song; Bolin Zhao; Zhi Zhou; et al. (Tropical Animal Health and Production, 2018)

Finger or Light: Stimulation Sensitivity of Visual Startle in the Coma Recovery Scale-Revised for Disorders of Consciousness - Feng Zhou; Hui Li; Kai Wang; Yanbin He; Yan Chen; Xiaoxiao Ni; Yechun Guo; Wei Lv; Jiechun Zhang; Qiuyou Xie; Ronghao Yu (Neuroscience Bulletin, 2018)

Biodegradation of Pendimethalin by Paracoccus sp. P13 - Haiyan Ni; Na Li; Jiguo Qiu; Qing Chen; Jian He (Current Microbiology, 2018)

Enhancing Stability of Exenatide-Containing Pressurized Metered-Dose Inhaler Via Reverse Microemulsion System - Xing Li; Ying Huang; Zhengwei Huang; Xiangyu Ma; Ni Dong; Wanxin Chen; Xin Pan; Chuanbin Wu (AAPS PharmSciTech, 2018)

Two new phenylpropanoids from the Chinese mangrove Ceriops tagal - Shu-Jun Ni; Jun Li; Min-Yi Li (Natural Product Research, 2018)

Use of Monte Carlo simulation to evaluate the efficacy of tigecycline and minocycline for the treatment of pneumonia due to carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae - Wentao Ni; Guobao Li; Jin Zhao; Junchang Cui; Rui Wang; Zhancheng Gao; Youning Liu (Infectious Diseases, 2018)

Targeted next-generation sequencing improves diagnosis of hereditary spastic paraplegia in Chinese patients - Cong Lu; Li-Xi Li; Hai-Lin Dong; Qiao Wei; Zhi-Jun Liu; Wang Ni; Aaron D. Gitler; Zhi-Ying Wu (Journal of Molecular Medicine, 2018)

Identification of an NDM-1-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae from diabetic foot ulcer in China - Shuai Ye; Li Ni; Sihu Wang; Wu Dai (Infectious Diseases, 2018)

Characteristics of distribution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineages in China - Haixia Chen; Li He; Chao Cai; Jingyi Liu; Junnan Jia; Liang Ma; Hairong Huang; Lixia Wang; Xumin Ni; Jimin Gao; Weimin Li (Science China Life Sciences, 2018)

Atlas of the Striatum and Globus Pallidus in the Tree Shrew: Comparison with Rat and Mouse - Rong-Jun Ni; Zhao-Huan Huang; Yu-Mian Shu; Yu Wang; Tao Li; Jiang-Ning Zhou (Neuroscience Bulletin, 2018)

A Neuron-Specific Gene Therapy Relieves Motor Deficits in Pompe Disease Mice - Ni-Chung Lee; Wuh-Liang Hwu; Shin-Ichi Muramatsu; Darin J. Falk; Barry J. Byrne; Chia-Hao Cheng; Nien-Chu Shih; Kai-Ling Chang; Li-Kai Tsai; Yin-Hsiu Chien (Molecular Neurobiology, 2018)

A comparison of CRISPR/Cas9 and siRNA-mediated ALDH2 gene silencing in human cell lines - Fei Wang; Tao Guo; Hongmei Jiang; Ruobi Li; Ting Wang; Ni Zeng; Guanghui Dong; Xiaowen Zeng; Daochuan Li; Yongmei Xiao; Qiansheng Hu; Wen Chen; et al. (Molecular Genetics and Genomics, 2018)

De novo assembly of mitochondrial genomes provides insights into genetic diversity and molecular evolution in wild boars and domestic pigs - Pan Ni; Ali Akbar Bhuiyan; Jian-Hai Chen; Jingjin Li; Cheng Zhang; Shuhong Zhao; Xiaoyong Du; Hua Li; Hui Yu; Xiangdong Liu; Kui Li (Genetica, 2018)

Distribution, relationship, and risk assessment of toxic heavy metals in walnuts and growth soil - Yongxiang Han; Zhanglin Ni; Shiliang Li; Minghua Qu; Fubin Tang; Runhong Mo; Caifen Ye; Yihua Liu (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2018)

Cu diffusivity in granitic melts with application to the formation of porphyry Cu deposits - Huaiwei Ni; Huifeng Shi; Li Zhang; Wan-Cai Li; Xuan Guo; Ting Liang (Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 2018)

Complete plastid genome of Larix potaninii var. macrocarpa, an endangered conifer endemic to China - Dai-Yu Qiu; Jiao Yang; Li Feng; Ding-Wen Ni; Cai-Xia Huang; Zhong-Hu Li (Conservation Genetics Resources, 2018)

Isolation and characterization of a waterlogging-responsive gene involved in ethylene biosynthesis in chrysanthemum - Zhiguo Zhang; Dongtao Luan; Gang Chen; Fang Xiao; Dongmei Yin; Dian Ni; Xiaorong Li; Lihong Qi (Acta Physiologiae Plantarum, 2018)

Developmental transcriptome analysis of floral transition in Rosa odorata var. gigantea - Xuelian Guo; Chao Yu; Le Luo; Huihua Wan; Ni Zhen; Yushu Li; Tangren Cheng; Jia Wang; Huitang Pan; Qixiang Zhang (Plant Molecular Biology, 2018)

Optimization and characterization of biosurfactant production from kitchen waste oil using Pseudomonas aeruginosa - Chunyan Chen; Ni Sun; Dongsheng Li; Sihua Long; Xiaoyu Tang; Guoqing Xiao; Linyuan Wang (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2018)

Enhancement of nitrogen and phosphorus removal in landscape water using polymeric ferric sulfate as well as the synergistic effect of four kinds of natural rocks as promoter - Xuejiao Huang; Mi Feng; Chengsheng Ni; Deti Xie; Zhenlun Li (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2018)

Estimating aboveground biomass using Pléiades satellite image in a karst watershed of Guizhou Province, Southwestern China - Yin-ming Guo; Jian Ni; Li-bin Liu; Yang-yang Wu; Chun-zi Guo; Xin Xu; Qiao-lian Zhong (Journal of Mountain Science, 2018)

Identification of a melatonin receptor type 1A gene (AccMTNR1A) in Apis cerana cerana and its possible involvement in the response to low temperature stress - Guilin Li; Yanming Zhang; Yong Ni; Ying Wang; Baohua Xu; Xingqi Guo (The Science of Nature, 2018)

Correction to: Arctic Micromonas uses protein pools and non-photochemical quenching to cope with temperature restrictions on Photosystem II protein turnover - Guangyan Ni; Gabrielle Zimbalatti; Cole D. Murphy; Audrey B. Barnett; Christopher M. Arsenault; Gang Li; Amanda M. Cockshutt; Douglas A. Campbell (Photosynthesis Research, 2018)

Simultaneous nitrification and denitrification with different mixed nitrogen loads by a hypothermia aerobic bacterium - Tengxia He; Zhenlun Li; Deti Xie; Quan Sun; Yi Xu; Qing Ye; Jiupai Ni (Biodegradation, 2018)

A novel allele of TaGW2-A1 is located in a finely mapped QTL that increases grain weight but decreases grain number in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) - Huijie Zhai; Zhiyu Feng; Xiaofen Du; Yane Song; Xinye Liu; Zhongqi Qi; Long Song; Jiang Li; Linghong Li; Huiru Peng; Zhaorong Hu; Yingyin Yao; et al. (Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2018)

Phosphorus accumulation and sorption characteristics of P-enriched soils in the Dian Lake basin, southwestern China - Guo-Sheng Zhang; Jiang-Xue Xue; Zhen-Wei Ni; Jian-Cha Li (Journal of Soils and Sediments, 2018)

Cellulomonas macrotermitis sp. nov., a chitinolytic and cellulolytic bacterium isolated from the hindgut of a fungus-growing termite - Xinxin Sun; Jingjing Li; Jiao Du; Hesheng Xiao; Jinfeng Ni (Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, 2018)

One evidence of cocaine- and amphetamine-regulated transcript (CART) has the bidirectional effects on appetite in Siberian sturgeon (Acipenser baerii) - Xin Zhang; Yundi Gao; Ni Tang; Jinwen Qi; Yuanbing Wu; Jin Hao; Shuyao Wang; Defang Chen; Zhiqiong Li (Fish Physiology and Biochemistry, 2018)

Quantitative Holocene climatic reconstructions for the lower Yangtze region of China - Jianyong Li; John Dodson; Hong Yan; Weiming Wang; James B. Innes; Yongqiang Zong; Xiaojian Zhang; Qinghai Xu; Jian Ni; Fengyan Lu (Climate Dynamics, 2018)

A novel Scan SAR imaging method for maritime surveillance via L p regularization - Jia-cheng Ni; Qun Zhang; Yu-fu Yin; Ying Luo; Li Sun (International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2018)

Global Terrestrial Water Storage Changes and Connections to ENSO Events - Shengnan Ni; Jianli Chen; Clark R. Wilson; Jin Li; Xiaogong Hu; Rong Fu (Surveys in Geophysics, 2018)

Microhabitat use of the western black-crested gibbon inhabiting an isolated forest fragment in southern Yunnan, China: implications for conservation of an endangered species - Qingyong Ni; Zongli Liang; Meng Xie; Huailiang Xu; Yongfang Yao; Mingwang Zhang; Yan Li; Ying Li; Xuelong Jiang (Primates, 2018)

Kinetic and Thermodynamic Studies of Chlorinated Organic Compound Degradation by Siderite-Activated Peroxide and Persulfate - Ni Yan; Mengjiao Li; Yali Liu; Fei Liu; Mark L. Brusseau (Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 2017)

Role of the Hippocampus in Distinct Memory Traces: Timing of Match and Mismatch Enhancement Revealed by Intracranial Recording - Bing Ni; Ruijie Wu; Tao Yu; Hongwei Zhu; Yongjie Li; Zuxiang Liu (Neuroscience Bulletin, 2017)

Effects of stocking density on lipid deposition and expression of lipid-related genes in Amur sturgeon (Acipenser schrenckii) - Yuanyuan Ren; Haishen Wen; Yun Li; Jifang Li; Feng He; Meng Ni (Fish Physiology and Biochemistry, 2017)

Investigation of Perfluoroalkyl Substances (PFASs) in Sediments from the Urban Lakes of Anqing City, Anhui Province, China - Fasong Li; Hanyu Huang; Zhibing Xu; Hui Ni; Hao Yan; Ran Chen; Yan Luo; Wei Pan; Jinyun Long; Xiaofang Ye; Xiaofen Qian; Guangming Yu (Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 2017)

Coral Ba/Ca and Mn/Ca ratios as proxies of precipitation and terrestrial input at the eastern offshore area of Hainan Island - Qiaowen Jiang; Zhimin Cao; Daoru Wang; Yuanchao Li; Zhongjie Wu; Jianyu Ni (Journal of Ocean University of China, 2017)

A novel missense mutation of $$ADAR1$$ ADAR 1 gene in a Chinese family leading to dyschromatosis symmetrica hereditaria and literature review - Shuai-Mei Liu; Meng-Xia Ni; Ming-Chao Zhang; Pei-Ran Zhu; Qiu-Yu Wu; Wei-Jun Jiang; Jing Zhang; Wei-Wei Li; Xin-Yi Xia (Journal of Genetics, 2017)

Rapid response to changing environments during biological invasions: DNA methylation perspectives - Xuena Huang; Shiguo Li; Ping Ni; Yangchun Gao; Bei Jiang; Zunchun Zhou; Aibin Zhan (Molecular Ecology, 2017)
Dissecting complex interactions between species and their environments has long been a research hot spot in the fields of ecology and evolutionary biology. The well‐recognized Darwinian evolution has well‐explained long‐term adaptation scenarios; however, “rapid” processes of biological responses to environmental changes remain largely unexplored, particularly molecular mechanisms such as DNA methylation that have recently been proposed to play crucial roles in rapid environmental adaptation. Invasive species, which have capacities to successfully survive rapidly changing environments during biological invasions, provide great opportunities to study molecular mechanisms of rapid environmental adaptation. Here, we used the methylation‐sensitive amplified polymorphism (MSAP) technique in an invasive model ascidian, Ciona savignyi , to investigate how species interact with rapidly changing environments at the whole‐genome level. We detected quite rapid DNA methylation response: significant changes of DNA methylation frequency and epigenetic differentiation between treatment and control groups occurred only after 1 hr of high‐temperature exposure or after 3 hr of low‐salinity challenge. In addition, we detected time‐dependent hemimethylation changes and increased intragroup epigenetic divergence induced by environmental stresses. Interestingly, we found evidence of DNA methylation resilience, as most stress‐induced DNA methylation variation maintained shortly (~48 hr) and quickly returned back to the control levels. Our findings clearly showed that invasive species could rapidly respond to acute environmental changes through DNA methylation modifications, and rapid environmental changes left significant epigenetic signatures at the whole‐genome level. All these results provide fundamental background to deeply investigate the contribution of DNA methylation mechanisms to rapid contemporary environmental adaptation.

Rapid and sensitive detection of redspotted grouper nervous necrosis virus ( RGNNV ) infection by aptamer–coat protein–aptamer sandwich enzyme‐linked apta‐sorbent assay ( ELASA ) - L Zhou; P Li; S Ni; Y Yu; M Yang; S Wei; Q Qin (Journal of Fish Diseases, 2017)
Redspotted grouper nervous necrosis virus ( RGNNV ) is one of the most devastating pathogens in the aquaculture of the grouper, Epinephlus sp., worldwide. The early and rapid diagnosis of RGNNV is important for the prevention of RGNNV infection. In this study, an aptamer (A10)‐based sandwich enzyme‐linked apta‐sorbent assay ( ELASA ) was developed for RGNNV diagnosis. This sandwich ELASA showed high specificity for the RGNNV coat protein ( CP ) and virions in virus‐infected cells and tissues. At the optimized working concentration of 200 nM of aptamer, the ELASA could detect RGNNV in the lysates of as few as 4 × 10 3 RGNNV ‐infected GB cells. Incubation for 10 min was sufficient to produce accurate results. The sandwich ELASA was most stable at incubation temperatures of 4–25°C, but could still distinguish RGNNV ‐infected samples from the controls at 37°C. It could detect RGNNV infection in brain lysates diluted 1/10, with results consistent with those of reverse transcription PCR , although with 10% less sensitivity. The main equipment required includes dissection tools, a water bath, Pierce™ Streptavidin Coated Plates and a microplate reader. The sandwich ELASA has great potential utility for the rapid and sensitive diagnosis of RGNNV in its early stages by fish farmers.

Abietane diterpenoids from Cephalotaxus lanceolata - Xiao-Jiao Chen; Ling Ni; Mei-Fen Bao; Li Wang; Xiang-Hai Cai (Natural Product Research, 2017)

Effects of virus infection on plant growth, root development and phytohormone levels in in vitro-cultured pear plants - Jie Chen; Hui-Hui Tang; Liu Li; Shi-Jiao Qin; Guo-Ping Wang; Ni Hong (Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC), 2017)

Disrupted Brain Structural Connectivity: Pathological Interactions Between Genetic APOE ε4 Status and Developed MCI Condition - Chao Ma; Jun Wang; Junying Zhang; Kewei Chen; Xin Li; Ni Shu; Yaojing Chen; Zhen Liu; Zhanjun Zhang (Molecular Neurobiology, 2017)

Mechanism of post-seismic floods after the Wenchuan earthquake in the upper Minjiang River, China - Ding Hairong; Li Yong; Shao Chongjian; Lauvence Svirchev; Xu Qiang; Yan Zhaokun; Yan Liang; Ni Shijun; Shi Zeming (Journal of Earth System Science, 2017)

PCDD/F formation during thermal desorption of chlorobenzene contaminated soil - Zhonghua Zhao; Mingjiang Ni; Xiaodong Li; Tong Chen; Alfons Buekens; Jianhua Yan (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2017)

Screening and identification of a specific peptide binding to cervical cancer cells from a phage-displayed peptide library - Chunyan Li; Ning Gao; Qinqin Xue; Ni Ma; Yuqin Hu; Jianfang Zhang; Biliang Chen; Yingchun Hou (Biotechnology Letters, 2017)

A potent indolylquinoline alleviates growth of human lung cancer cell tumorspheres - Yu-Ling Ni; Chang-Hung Hsieh; Seung-Hun Kim; Jing-Ping Wang; Chun-Li Su; Ching-Fa Yao; Kang Fang (Apoptosis, 2017)

Prediction of nitrogen release from sigmoid-type controlled release fertilizers in greenhouse production of strawberry and cucumber - Qiang Xiao; Xiaohui Fan; Xiaohui Ni; Lixia Li; Xinpeng Xu; Wenping Yi (Science China Life Sciences, 2017)

Characterization of extracellular polymeric substance (EPS) fractions produced by Microcystis aeruginosa under the stress of linoleic acid sustained-release microspheres - Lixiao Ni; Danye Li; Shiyi Rong; Lili Su; Wei Zhou; Peifang Wang; Chao Wang; Shiyin Li; Kumud Acharya (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2017)

The complete mitogenome sequence of Tylototriton ziegleri (Amphibia: Caudata) - Ye Jiang; Zhimin Wei; Fuyao Han; Qingyong Ni; Yongfang Yao; Huailiang Xu; Ying Li; Dingqi Rao; Mingwang Zhang (Conservation Genetics Resources, 2017)