Pre-symptomatic local brain activity and functional connectivity alterations in nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients who developed radiation encephalopathy following radiotherapy - You-ming Zhang; Jian-ming Gao; Hong Zhou; Li Li; Li-zhi Liu; Zai-de Han; Xiao-ping Yi; Wei-hua Liao (Brain Imaging and Behavior, 2020)

Comparative iTRAQ Proteomics Reveals Multiple Effects of Selenium Yeast on Dairy Cows in Parturition - Zhi-hua Ren; Li-peng Bai; Liu-hong Shen; Zheng-zhong Luo; Zi-han Zhou; Zhi-cai Zuo; Xiao-ping Ma; Jun-liang Deng; Ya Wang; Sheng-yu Xu; Yu-heng Luo; Sui-zhong Cao; et al. (Biological Trace Element Research, 2020)

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

N-acyl-homoserine lactones (AHLs) in intertidal marsh: diversity and potential role in nitrogen cycling - Zongxiao Zhang; Yanling Zheng; Ping Han; Hongpo Dong; Xia Liang; Guoyu Yin; Dianming Wu; Yi Yang; Sitong Liu; Min Liu; Lijun Hou (Plant and Soil, 2020)

Comparing GWAS and Brain Structure-Specific Gene Expression Profiles Identifies Psychiatric Disorder-Related Brain Structures at Different Developmental Stages - Xin Qi; Cuiyan Wu; Yanan Du; Shiqiang Cheng; Yan Wen; Mei Ma; Chujun Liang; Li Liu; Bolun Cheng; Lu Zhang; Ping Li; Feng Zhang (Neuroscience Bulletin, 2020)

Land subsidence monitoring in sinking coastal areas using distributed fiber optic sensing: a case study - Su-Ping Liu; Bin Shi; Kai Gu; Cheng-Cheng Zhang; Ji-Long Yang; Song Zhang; Peng Yang (Natural Hazards, 2020)

Characterization of the promoter of the nitrate transporter-encoding gene nrtA in Aspergillus nidulans - Yangyi Liu; Haoxiang Li; Jingyi Li; Yao Zhou; Zhemin Zhou; Ping Wang; Shengmin Zhou (Molecular Genetics and Genomics, 2020)

Colletotrichum neorubicola sp. nov., a new leaf anthracnose pathogen of raspberry from northeast China - Li-Ping Liu; Yu Wang; Peng-Lei Qiu; Bo Zhang; Lin Zhang; Na Wang; Yu Li; Jie Gao; Tom Hsiang (Mycological Progress, 2020)

Antiangiogenic effects of AG36, a triterpenoid saponin from Ardisia gigantifolia stapf. - Li-Hua Mu; Li-Hua Wang; Yu-Ning Wang; Ping Liu; Can Yan (Journal of Natural Medicines, 2020)

Establishment of reference intervals of biochemical analytes for healthy Chinese volunteers during the screening process in clinical pharmacology trials - Ping Zhong; Huanwen Chen; Xi Luo; Jianfeng Liu (European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 2020)

Characterization of Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia at three tertiary comprehensive hospitals in southern China - Yan-Hui Chen; Xue-Yao Fang; Yue-Ting Li; Yan-Ling Liu; Ya-Ping Hang; Yan-Ping Xiao; Xing-Wei Cao; Qiao-Shi Zhong; Long-Hua Hu (Brazilian Journal of Microbiology, 2020)

Autophagy: a promising process for the treatment of acetaminophen-induced liver injury - Qiuhua Tan; Yongjian Liu; Xiaoyi Deng; Jiajia Chen; Ping-Ju Tsai; Pei-Hsuan Chen; Manxiang Ye; Jiao Guo; Zhengquan Su (Archives of Toxicology, 2020)

An Examination of the Predictability of Tropical Cyclone Genesis in High-Resolution Coupled Models with Dynamically Downscaled Coupled Data Assimilation Initialization - Mingkui Li; Shaoqing Zhang; Lixin Wu; Xiaopei Lin; Ping Chang; Gohkan Danabasoglu; Zhiqiang Wei; Xiaolin Yu; Huiqin Hu; Xiaohui Ma; Weiwei Ma; Haoran Zhao; et al. (Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 2020)

Elevated temperature increases the accumulation of microbial necromass nitrogen in soil via increasing microbial turnover - Xu Wang; Chao Wang; M. Francesca Cotrufo; Lifei Sun; Ping Jiang; Ziping Liu; Edith Bai (Global Change Biology, 2020)
Microbial‐derived nitrogen (N) is now recognized as an important source of soil organic N. However, the mechanisms that govern the production of microbial necromass N, its turnover, and stabilization in soil remain poorly understood. To assess the effects of elevated temperature on bacterial and fungal necromass N production, turnover, and stabilization, we incubated 15 N‐labeled bacterial and fungal necromass under optimum moisture conditions at 10°C, 15°C, and 25°C. We developed a new 15 N tracing model to calculate the production and mineralization rates of necromass N. Our results showed that bacterial and fungal necromass N had similar mineralization rates, despite their contrasting chemistry. Most bacterial and fungal necromass 15 N was recovered in the mineral‐associated organic matter fraction through microbial anabolism, suggesting that mineral association plays an important role in stabilizing necromass N in soil, independently of necromass chemistry. Elevated temperature significantly increased the accumulation of necromass N in soil, due to the relatively higher microbial turnover and production of necromass N with increasing temperature than the increases in microbial necromass N mineralization. In conclusion, we found elevated temperature may increase the contribution of microbial necromass N to mineral‐stabilized soil organic N.

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)

Structural features of an acidic polysaccharide with the potential of promoting osteoblast differentiation from Lycium ruthenicum Murr. - Shu-Qi Wang; Bing Liu; Su Liu; Song-Zi Xie; Li-Hua Pan; Xue-Qiang Zha; Qiang-Ming Li; Jian-Ping Luo (Natural Product Research, 2020)

Aquaporins mediated arsenite transport in plants: Molecular mechanisms and applications in crop improvement - Fenglin Deng; Xue Liu; Yanshan Chen; Bala Rathinasabapathi; Christopher Rensing; Jian Chen; Jue Bi; Ping Xiang; Lena Q. Ma (Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, 2020)

Microporotriol, a new cadinane-type sesquiterpenoid from the cultures of the wood-decay fungus Microporus affinis HFG829 - Zhen-Zhu Zhao; Ji-Kai Liu; He-Ping Chen (Natural Product Research, 2020)

Identification and fine mapping of spot blotch (Bipolaris sorokiniana) resistance gene Sb4 in wheat - Panpan Zhang; Guanghao Guo; Qiuhong Wu; Yongxing Chen; Jingzhong Xie; Ping Lu; Beibei Li; Lingli Dong; Miaomiao Li; Rongge Wang; Chengguo Yuan; Huaizhi Zhang; et al. (Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2020)

Chopper Sugarcane Combine Harvester with Middle-Mounted Primary Extractor - Tao Wu; Xiao-Ling Liang; Qing-Ting Liu; Zeng-Xue Zhang; Hai Xu; Ji-Bai Huang; Jin-Xin Li; Xiao-Ping Zou (Sugar Tech, 2020)

Haploidentical stem cell transplantation in patients with chronic myelomonocytic leukemia - Yu-Qian Sun; Chen Zhao; Yu Wang; Chen-Hua Yan; Xiao-Hui Zhang; Lan-Ping Xu; Kai-Yan Liu; Xiao-Jun Huang (Science China Life Sciences, 2020)

Effect of Freezing and Thawing on Microstructure Damage and Dynamic Flexural Tension of Granite - Chuanju Liu; JunRen Deng; Songtao Yu; Ping Li; Yun Lin (Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, 2020)

Corticosterone Induced the Increase of proBDNF in Primary Hippocampal Neurons Via Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress - Yu Liu; Guang-Jing Zou; Bo-Xuan Tu; Zhao-Lan Hu; Cong Luo; Yan-Hui Cui; Yang Xu; Fang Li; Ru-Ping Dai; Fang-Fang Bi; Chang-Qi Li (Neurotoxicity Research, 2020)

Blockade of HCN2 Channels Provides Neuroprotection Against Ischemic Injury via Accelerating Autophagic Degradation in Hippocampal Neurons - Cheng Chen; Li Liu; Ya-Qiao Shu; Ping Jing; Yun Lu; Xiao-Xue Zhang; Xian-Gang Zong; Lian-Jun Guo; Chang-Jun Li (Neuroscience Bulletin, 2020)

Responses of Primary Afferent Fibers to Acupuncture-Like Peripheral Stimulation at Different Frequencies: Characterization by Single-Unit Recording in Rats - Ran Huo; Song-Ping Han; Feng-Yu Liu; Xiao-Jing Shou; Ling-Yu Liu; Tian-Jia Song; Fu-Jun Zhai; Rong Zhang; Guo-Gang Xing; Ji-Sheng Han (Neuroscience Bulletin, 2020)

Pectobacterium carotovorum subsp. brasiliensis and Pectobacterium parmentieri as causal agents of potato blackleg and soft rot in China - Wen Li-ping; Zhong Min; Ren Min-hua; Li Xing-wei; Liu Qiong-guang (Journal of Plant Pathology, 2020)

Two novel pleiotropic loci associated with osteoporosis and abdominal obesity - Lu Liu; Xiao-Lin Yang; Hong Zhang; Zi-Jia Zhang; Xin-Tong Wei; Gui-Juan Feng; Ju Liu; Hui-Ping Peng; Rong Hai; Hui Shen; Qing Tian; Hong-Wen Deng; et al. (Human Genetics, 2020)

Size Effect on Mechanical Properties of Rock-Like Materials with Three Joints - Tao Dong; Ping Cao; Qibin Lin; Fei Wang; Zhizhen Liu; Ji Hao; Yezhen Xie (Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, 2020)

Effects of different dietary carbohydrate-to-lipid ratios on growth, plasma biochemical indexes, digestive, and immune enzymes activities of sub-adult orange-spotted grouper Epinephelus coioides - Hao Liu; Jun-Jiang Yang; Xiao-Hui Dong; Bei-Ping Tan; Shuang Zhang; Shu-Yan Chi; Qi-Hui Yang; Hong-Yu Liu; Yuan-Zhi Yang (Fish Physiology and Biochemistry, 2020)

The dynamic process of dietary soybean β-conglycinin in digestion, absorption, and metabolism among different intestinal segments in grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) - Xu-Dong Duan; Lin Feng; Wei-Dan Jiang; Pei Wu; Yang Liu; Jun Jiang; Bei-Ping Tan; Qi-Hui Yang; Sheng-Yao Kuang; Ling Tang; Xiao-Qiu Zhou (Fish Physiology and Biochemistry, 2020)

A family cluster of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infections - Xuesong Gao; Zheng Yuan; Di Yang; Hongjie Li; Yijin Zhang; Ping Gao; Xiaomin Liu; Wenshan Zhao; Te Xiao; Xuefei Duan (European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, 2020)

Reclassification of Brevibacterium frigoritolerans DSM 8801T as Bacillus frigoritolerans comb. nov. Based on Genome Analysis - Guo-Hong Liu; Bo Liu; Jie-Ping Wang; Jian-Mei Che; Peng-Fei Li (Current Microbiology, 2020)

Influence of dredger fill self-consolidation on development of negative skin friction of piles - Yao-hui Liu; Ping Yang; Shoubao Xue; Ya-fei Pan (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2020)

Impacts of climate anomalies on the interannual and interdecadal variability of autumn and winter haze in North China: A review - Jing Wang; Yanju Liu; Yihui Ding; Ping Wu; Zhiwei Zhu; Ying Xu; Qiaoping Li; Yingxian Zhang; Jinhai He; Julian X. L. Wang; Li Qi (International Journal of Climatology, 2020)
From the perspectives of remote sensing and climatic factors like surface meteorological parameters, large‐scale atmospheric circulations, and external forcing factors (EFFs), the authors synthesize and review spatiotemporal variations of PM 2.5 over North China and how climate anomalies affect autumn and winter haze variability in North China according to recent studies. This review focuses on both interannual and interdecadal timescales. It is shown that circulations play an important role in influencing haze variability. Atmospheric circulations, which would be modulated by EFFs like sea surface temperature, sea ice, and snowpack, can affect the climate variability in haze over North China via modulation of surface‐layer parameters that are closely connected with the haze phenomenon. Therefore, EFFs are deemed significant factors impacting the climate variability of haze over North China, serving as paramount precursory signals for haze prediction. Furthermore, this paper suggests potential future research directions for haze variability studies in North China on the basis of summarizing and concluding the associated processes/mechanisms on how climatic factors affect haze variability, which could provide reference for treating and forecasting in situ hazy conditions.

α -Tetralone glycosides from the green walnut husks of Juglans mandshurica Maxim. and their cytotoxic activities - Yuan-Yuan Zhou; Shuang Guo; Ying Wang; Hong-Juan Song; Hui-Rui Gao; Xiao-Juan Zhang; Yan-Ping Sun; Yan Liu; Bing-You Yang; Hai-Xue Kuang (Natural Product Research, 2020)

Microseismic Monitoring to Characterize Structure-Type Rockbursts: A Case Study of a TBM-Excavated Tunnel - Quan-Sheng Liu; Jian Wu; Xiao-Ping Zhang; Lie-Xian Tang; Chen Bi; Wei-Wei Li; Jin-Lin Xu (Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, 2020)

The bHLH gene family and its response to saline stress in Jilin ginseng, Panax ginseng C.A. Meyer - Lei Zhu; Mingzhu Zhao; Mengyao Chen; Li Li; Yue Jiang; Sizhang Liu; Yang Jiang; Kangyu Wang; Yanfang Wang; Chunyu Sun; Jing Chen; Ping Chen; et al. (Molecular Genetics and Genomics, 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)

Stability evaluation of radial growth of Picea schrenkiana in different age groups in response to climate change in the eastern Tianshan Mountains - Liang Jiao; Ke Chen; Sheng-jie Wang; Xiao-ping Liu (Journal of Mountain Science, 2020)

De novo assembly and microsatellite marker development of the transcriptome of the endangered Brachymystax lenok tsinlingensis - Sien Wen; Ping Li; Feng Wang; Jiale Li; Haixia Liu; Ning Li (Genes & Genomics, 2020)

Serotonin-induced miR-221/222 contribute to the activation of hepatic stellate cells - Yi Xiang; Yu-Shui Ma; Ji-Bin Liu; Zhi-Jun Wu; Xiao-Ping Wang; Li-Ping Liu; Gao-Ren Wang; Da Fu; Wei Shi (Biologia, 2020)

Contamination characteristics of heavy metals in particle size fractions from street dust from an industrial city, Central China - Ping Zhong; Jia-Quan Zhang; Da-Mao Xu; Qian Tian; Tian-Peng Hu; Xiang-Yi Gong; Chang-Lin Zhan; Shan Liu; Xin-Li Xing; Shi-Hua Qi (Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health, 2020)

Bioactive Eudesmane sesquiterpenes from Artabotrys hongkongensis Hance - Qing Wen; Yan-Ping Liu; Gui Yan; Shuo Yang; Shi Hu; Jing Hua; Wen-Qing Yin; Guang-Ying Chen; Yan-Hui Fu (Natural Product Research, 2020)

Association between population migration and epidemic control of Coronavirus disease 2019 - Yu Ding; Sihui Luo; Xueying Zheng; Ping Ling; Tong Yue; Zhirong Liu; Jianping Weng (Science China Life Sciences, 2020)

The Role of 17β-Estrogen in Candida albicans Adhesion on Human Vaginal Epithelial Cells via FAK Phosphorylation - Ting Luan; Xia Liu; Pengyuan Mao; Xinyan Wang; Can Rui; Lina Yan; Yiquan Wang; Chong Fan; Ping Li; Xin Zeng (Mycopathologia, 2020)

Curcumin protects BV2 cells against lipopolysaccharide-induced injury via adjusting the miR-362-3p/TLR4 axis - Ping Xie; Ming Deng; Qinguo Sun; Bo Jiang; Hongjie Xu; Junqi Liu; Yan Zhou; Yonggang Ma; Zhonghui Chen (Molecular Biology Reports, 2020)

The effects of inhibiting the activation of hepatic stellate cells by lignan components from the fruits of Schisandra chinensis and the mechanism of schisanhenol - Xiaoli He; Jiamei Chen; Yongping Mu; Hua Zhang; Gaofeng Chen; Ping Liu; Wei Liu (Journal of Natural Medicines, 2020)

Calycosin Preserves BDNF/TrkB Signaling and Reduces Post-Stroke Neurological Injury after Cerebral Ischemia by Reducing Accumulation of Hypertrophic and TNF-α-Containing Microglia in Rats - Chien-Chin Hsu; Ting-Wei Kuo; Wen-Pin Liu; Ching-Ping Chang; Hung-Jung Lin (Journal of Neuroimmune Pharmacology, 2020)

Treg Cells Attenuate Neuroinflammation and Protect Neurons in a Mouse Model of Parkinson’s Disease - Yan Huang; Zhan Liu; Bei-Bei Cao; Yi-Hua Qiu; Yu-Ping Peng (Journal of Neuroimmune Pharmacology, 2020)

Automatic Striatal ROI Delineation for Semi-quantitative Analysis of 99mTc-TRODAT-1 Brain SPECT Imaging - Bang-Hung Yang; Kang-Ping Lin; Mei-Fen Chen; Jui-Hung Weng; Pan-Fu Kao; Wen-Chen Lin; Ren-Shyan Liu (Journal of Medical and Biological Engineering, 2020)

The isolation and culture of giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) breast milk cells - Chen Yijiao; Wang Donghui; Liu Yuliang; Li Feiping; He Ping; Cai Zhigang; Zhang Hao; Chen Min; Hou Rong; An Junhui (In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology - Animal, 2020)

Nr1d1 affects autophagy in the skeletal muscles of juvenile Nile tilapia by regulating the rhythmic expression of autophagy-related genes - Ping Wu; Jia Cheng; Lin Chen; Jing Xiang; Yaxiong Pan; Yongzhan Zhang; Tao Zheng; Naiyuan Liu; Wuying Chu; Jianshe Zhang (Fish Physiology and Biochemistry, 2020)

Removal of SO2 and NOx from flue gas using mud-phosphorus slurry - Lijuan Jia; Zizhen Li; Qian Yu; Jiyun Gao; Chenhui Liu; Tiancheng Liu; Ping Ning; Fang Wang (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020)

The research trends of metal-organic frameworks in environmental science: a review based on bibliometric analysis - Juan Li; Liangjie Wang; Yongqiang Liu; Yonghui Song; Ping Zeng; Yajie Zhang (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020)

Research on intelligent prediction and zonation of basin-scale flood risk based on LSTM method - Minzhi Yang; Ping-an Zhong; Jieyu Li; Weifeng Liu; Yinghui Li; Kun Yan; Yinyang Yuan; Yihui Gao (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2020)

Common and specific altered amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations in Parkinson’s disease patients with and without freezing of gait in different frequency bands - Huiqing Hu; Jingwu Chen; Huiyuan Huang; Caihong Zhou; Shufei Zhang; Xian Liu; Lijuan Wang; Ping Chen; Kun Nie; Lixiang Chen; Shuai Wang; Biao Huang; et al. (Brain Imaging and Behavior, 2020)

Soil microbial biomass and community responses to experimental precipitation change: A meta-analysis - Shan Xu; Weixin Geng; Emma J. Sayer; Guoyi Zhou; Ping Zhou; Chengshuai Liu (Soil Ecology Letters, 2020)

Reverse time migration imaging of tunnels via the finite element method using an unstructured mesh - Jing Wang; Jiang-Ping Liu; Fei Cheng; Huai-Jie Yang; Yi-Fan Huang (Applied Geophysics, 2020)

Predicting postmortem interval based on microbial community sequences and machine learning algorithms - Ruina Liu; Yuexi Gu; Mingwang Shen; Huan Li; Kai Zhang; Qi Wang; Xin Wei; Haohui Zhang; Di Wu; Kai Yu; Wumin Cai; Gongji Wang; et al. (Environmental Microbiology, 2020)
Summary Microbes play an essential role in the decomposition process but were poorly understood in their succession and behaviour. Previous researches have shown that microbes show predictable behaviour that starts at death and changes during the decomposition process. Research of such behaviour enhances the understanding of decomposition and benefits estimating the postmortem interval (PMI) in forensic investigations, which is critical but faces multiple challenges. In this study, we combined microbial community characterization, microbiome sequencing from different organs (i.e. brain, heart and cecum) and machine learning algorithms [random forest (RF), support vector machine (SVM) and artificial neural network (ANN)] to investigate microbial succession pattern during corpse decomposition and estimate PMI in a mouse corpse system. Microbial communities exhibited significant differences between the death point and advanced decay stages. Enterococcus faecalis , Anaerosalibacter bizertensis , Lactobacillus reuteri , and so forth were identified as the most informative species in the decomposition process. Furthermore, the ANN model combined with the postmortem microbial data set from the cecum, which was the best combination among all candidates, yielded a mean absolute error of 1.5 ± 0.8 h within 24‐h decomposition and 14.5 ± 4.4 h within 15‐day decomposition. This integrated model can serve as a reliable and accurate technology in PMI estimation.

Two new aromatic polyketides from a deep-sea fungus Penicillium sp. SCSIO 06720 - Cui Guo; Xiu-Ping Lin; Sheng-Rong Liao; Bin Yang; Xue-Feng Zhou; Xian-Wen Yang; Xin-Peng Tian; Jun-Feng Wang; Yong-Hong Liu (Natural Product Research, 2020)

Detection of serum IgM and IgG for COVID-19 diagnosis - Ling Zhong; Junlan Chuan; Bo Gong; Ping Shuai; Yu Zhou; Yi Zhang; Zhilin Jiang; Dingding Zhang; Xiaoqi Liu; Shi Ma; Yi Huang; He Lin; et al. (Science China Life Sciences, 2020)

NK cell reconstitution following unmanipulated HLA-mismatched/haploidentical transplantation compared with matched sibling transplantation - Li-Juan Hu; Xun-Hong Cao; Xing-Xing Yu; Xue-Fei Liu; Xiao-Su Zhao; Ying-Jun Chang; Xiao-Hui Zhang; Lan-Ping Xu; Yu Wang; Kai-Yan Liu; Xiao-Jun Huang; Xiang-Yu Zhao (Science China Life Sciences, 2020)

Phylogenetic analysis of achaete–scute complex genes in metazoans - Yong Wang; Guang-Dong Wang; Qin-Liu He; Zhi-Peng Luo; Liu Yang; Qin Yao; Ke-Ping Chen (Molecular Genetics and Genomics, 2020)

PDB-1 from Potentilla discolor Bunge suppresses lung cancer cell migration and invasion via FAK/Src and MAPK signaling pathways - Na-na Meng; Rui-rui Zhang; Chao Liu; Qing Wang; Xin-kun Wang; Xu Guo; Ping-ping Wang; Jin-yue Sun (Medicinal Chemistry Research, 2020)

Enhancement methane fermentation of Enteromorpha prolifera waste by Saccharomyces cerevisiae: batch kinetic investigation, dissolved organic matter characterization, and synergistic mechanism - Shunan Zhao; Ping Li; Hongli Fang; Liuying Song; Dunjie Li; Rutao Liu; Qigui Niu (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020)

An Injectable Nanocomposite Hydrogel for Potential Application of Vascularization and Tissue Repair - Yilei Ding; An-sha Zhao; Tianmei Liu; Ya-nan Wang; Yuan Gao; Jing-an Li; Ping Yang (Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 2020)

Deepened winter snow cover enhances net ecosystem exchange and stabilizes plant community composition and productivity in a temperate grassland - Ping Li; Emma J. Sayer; Zhou Jia; Weixing Liu; Yuntao Wu; Sen Yang; Chengzhang Wang; Lu Yang; Dima Chen; Yongfei Bai; Lingli Liu (Global Change Biology, 2020)
Global warming has greatly altered winter snowfall patterns, and there is a trend towards increasing winter snow in semi‐arid regions in China. Winter snowfall is an important source of water during early spring in these water‐limited ecosystems, and it can also affect nutrient supply. However, we know little about how changes in winter snowfall will affect ecosystem productivity and plant community structure during the growing season. Here, we conducted a 5‐year winter snow manipulation experiment in a temperate grassland in Inner Mongolia. We measured ecosystem carbon flux from 2014 to 2018 and plant biomass and species composition from 2015 to 2018. We found that soil moisture increased under deepened winter snow in early growing season, particularly in deeper soil layers. Deepened snow increased the net ecosystem exchange of CO 2 (NEE) and reduced intra‐ and inter‐annual variation in NEE. Deepened snow did not affect aboveground plant biomass (AGB) but significantly increased root biomass. This suggested that the enhanced NEE was allocated to the belowground, which improved water acquisition and thus contributed to greater stability in NEE in deep‐snow plots. Interestingly, the AGB of grasses in the control plots declined over time, resulting in a shift towards a forb‐dominated system. Similar declines in grass AGB were also observed at three other locations in the region over the same time frame and are attributed to 4 years of below‐average precipitation during the growing season. By contrast, grass AGB was stabilized under deepened winter snow and plant community composition remained unchanged. Hence, our study demonstrates that increased winter snowfall may stabilize arid grassland systems by reducing resource competition, promoting coexistence between plant functional groups, which ultimately mitigates the impacts of chronic drought during the growing season.

Prior Antiplatelet Therapy, Excluding Phosphodiesterase Inhibitor Is Associated with Poor Outcome in Patients with Spontaneous Intracerebral Haemorrhage - Zhuo-Hao Liu; Chi-Hung Liu; Po-Hsun Tu; Ping K. Yip; Ching-Chang Chen; Yu-Chi Wang; Nan-Yu Chen; Yu-Sheng Lin (Translational Stroke Research, 2020)

Study on the Interaction of Metro Shield Tunnel Construction Under-Crossing the Existing Longhai Railway - Bao Liu; Danhui Xi; Ping Xu (Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, 2020)

A new method for evaluating rock mass quality of slopes based on interval continuous mathematical models - Lixin Wu; Dixu Liu; Ping Cao (Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, 2020)

Characterization of brain microstructural abnormalities in cirrhotic patients without overt hepatic encephalopathy using diffusion kurtosis imaging - Qing Sun; Wenliang Fan; Yuan Liu; Yan Zou; Natalie Wiseman; Zhifeng Kou; Ping Han (Brain Imaging and Behavior, 2020)
Cirrhosis is a major public health concern. However, little is known about the neurobiological mechanisms underlying brain microstructure alterations in cirrhotic patients. The purpose of this prospective study was to investigate brain microstructural alterations in cirrhosis with or without minimal hepatic encephalopathy (MHE) and their relationship with patients’ neurocognitive performance and disease duration using voxel-based analysis of diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI). DKI data were acquired from 30 cirrhotic patients with MHE, 31 patients without MHE (NMHE) and 59 healthy controls. All DKI-derived parametric maps were compared across the three groups to investigate their group differences. Correlation analyses were further performed to assess relationships between altered imaging parameters and clinical data. Voxel-based analysis of DKI data results showed that MHE/NMHE patients had increased radial diffusivity, axial diffusivity (AD) and mean diffusivity in addition to decreased axial kurtosis (AK) and fractional anisotropy of kurtosis in several regions. Compared to controls, these regions were primarily the cingulum, temporal and frontal cortices. The DKI metrics (i.e., AK and AD) were correlated with clinical variables in the two patient groups. In conclusion, DKI is useful for detecting brain microstructural abnormalities in MHE and NMHE patients. Abnormal DKI parameters suggest alterations in brain microstructural complexity in cirrhotic patients, which may contribute to the neurobiological basis of neurocognitive impairment. These results may provide additional information on the pathophysiology of cirrhosis.

Effects of Organic Copper on Growth Performance and Oxidative Stress in Mice - Mingyu Zhi; Ping Tang; Ying Liu; Da He; Suxia Zheng (Biological Trace Element Research, 2020)

Advances in Urban Meteorological Research in China - Shiguang Miao; Weimei Jiang; Ping Liang; Hongnian Liu; Xuemei Wang; Jianguo Tan; Ning Zhang; Ju Li; Wupeng Du; Lin Pei (Journal of Meteorological Research, 2020)

Evaluating the Genetic Correlations Between Left-Handedness and Mental Disorder Using Linkage Disequilibrium Score Regression and Transcriptome-Wide Association Study - Bolun Cheng; Chujun Liang; Ping Li; Li Liu; Shiqiang Cheng; Mei Ma; Lu Zhang; Xin Qi; Yan Wen; Feng Zhang (Biochemical Genetics, 2020)

The loess landslide on 15 march 2019 in Shanxi Province, China - Wenhui Shi; Yanrong Li; Weiwei Zhang; Jin Liu; Shengdi He; Ping Mo; Fanfan Guan (Landslides, 2020)
On 15 March 2019, a fatal deep-seated landslide occurred at the village of Zaoling in Xiangning County of Shanxi Province, China. Extending to an area of about 120 m by 85 m, with an estimated displaced mass volume of 72,000 m 3 , the landslide left 20 people dead, 13 injured, and 8 buildings destroyed. There were no precursory signals prior to the event, and usual triggering mechanisms for a landslide were absent. Investigation conducted immediately after the incident revealed that the landslide was initiated in a 1.0 to 1.5-m thick-softened layer located at 40 m depth along the contact between the loess and interbedded paleosol layer. This softened layer was highly saturated due to the perched water on top of the relatively impervious paleosol layer and became a critical weak zone since the shear strength of loess is very sensitive to water content. We suggest that the perched water originated from extensive long-term unsaturated seepage of rainwater and local rapid percolation along preferential channels such as sinkholes and root network. The Zaoling landslide confirms that unlike most landslides in non-loess areas, loess landslides can occur without identifiable triggering events. They can result from gradual build up of instability due to slow (in the span of hundred years) accumulation of deep soil water. Based on the lessons learned from this landslide event, suggestions are given for the planning of urban and rural development in loess areas. Due to the fact that the process leading to the development of such a landslide is largely concealed, further research should be aimed at gaining a more thorough understanding of the mechanism of this landslide type.

Identification of Key Candidate Genes and Pathways of Candida albicans-Infected Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells and Drug Screening - Wei Jiang; Ping Liu; Jianlei Zhang; Wenjie Yang (Indian Journal of Microbiology, 2020)
Candida albicans is a common opportunistic pathogen that can cause serious infection by blood transmission. C. albicans enters the blood circulation and adheres to the endothelial cells of the vascular wall. However, the detailed mechanism of the effect of C. albicans on the endothelial cells remains unclear. In this study, the microarray expression profile of human umbilical vein endothelial cells exposed to C. albicans was analyzed. The 191 up-regulated genes were enriched in TNF, T cell receptor, and NF-kappa B signaling pathways. The 71 down-regulated genes were enriched in pyruvate metabolic, purine nucleotide metabolic, purine nucleotide biosynthetic, and humoral immune response processes. Gene set enrichment analysis showed that apoptosis, oxidative phosphorylation, IL6/JAK/STAT3 signaling pathways were enriched. Moreover, two hub genes with a high degree of connectivity, namely, MYC and IL6, were selected. Molecular screening of traditional Chinese medicine libraries was performed on the basis of the structure of MYC protein. The okanin had the highest docking score. MYC might be used as molecular targets for treatment. In addition, okanin may inhibit the infection of C. albicans . Thus, MYC can be subjected to further research.

An environmentally friendly strategy for determining organic ultraviolet filters in seawater using liquid-phase microextraction with liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry - Ping-Chang Ku; Ting-Yu Liu; Shu Hui Lee; Te-An Kung; Wei-Hsien Wang (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020)

Enhanced adsorption of hydrophobic organic contaminants by high surface area porous graphene - Lixuan Ma; Kai Li; Chi Wang; Bo Liu; Hongbo Peng; Yi Mei; Ping Ning (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020)

Anti-inflammatory bibenzyls from the stems of Dendrobium huoshanense via bioassay guided isolation - Qiang-Ming Li; Hui Jiang; Xue-Qiang Zha; De-Ling Wu; Li-Hua Pan; Jun Duan; Jian Liu; Jian-Ping Luo (Natural Product Research, 2020)

Stilbenoids from aerial parts of Dendrobium plicatile - Dan-Na Chen; Yu-Ye Wang; Wen-Jian Liu; Yue-Juan Chen; Ya-Ping Wu; Jing-Xian Wang; Feng He; Lin Jiang (Natural Product Research, 2020)

Construction of an SNP-based high-density genetic map for Japanese plum in a Chinese population using specific length fragment sequencing - Qiu-ping Zhang; Xiao Wei; Ning Liu; Yu-ping Zhang; Ming Xu; Yu-jun Zhang; Xiao-xue Ma; Wei-sheng Liu (Tree Genetics & Genomes, 2020)
The Japanese plum ( Prunus salicina Lindl.) is one of the most important stone fruit crops in China. High-density linkage map is valuable resources which enhance functional genomics and genetic breeding studies. So far several Japanese plum linkage maps have been reported using different kinds of molecular markers; however, the marker numbers and chromosome coverage are limited. Recently, a newly developed strategy which genome sequencing towards specific-locus amplified fragments (SLAF) markers, has been proven to be powerful for rapid genotyping of genome-wide markers and for high-density genetic map construction. In this study, SLAF was used to genotype markers with 114 F1 seedlings from the ‘09–16’ × ‘Fortune’ cross. Suitable SLAF markers (160,344 out of 343,436,902 pair-end reads) were chosen to conduct genetic map construction, 16.31% of which were polymorphic. The overall integrated map contained 3,341 high quality SLAFs and 720 loci that were grouped in eight genetic linkage groups with a total length of 869.9 cM and an average distance of 1.21 cM, and only five gaps with a genetic distance > 5 cM between adjacent markers occurred in linkage group (LG) 3 and LG6. The number of markers with each LG ranged from 82.3 cM (LG3) to 138.3 cM (LG1). Aligning the map against the peach reference genome sequence (Prunus persica L.) indicated a strictly co-linear relationship between the LGs and peach genome, demonstrating the markers on ours LGs were well ordered. Overall, our studies identified large-scale of genetic markers and constructed high-density linkage maps for Japanese plum, which will obviously provide a solid foundation for marker-assisted selection and sequence assembly of the Japanese plum reference genome.

Strictly Lobar Cerebral Microbleeds Are Associated with Increased White Matter Volume - Pei-Ning Wang; Kun-Hsien Chou; Li-Ning Peng; Li-Kuo Liu; Wei-Ju Lee; Liang-Kung Chen; Ching-Po Lin; Chih-Ping Chung (Translational Stroke Research, 2020)

Lipofection-mediated genome editing using DNA-free delivery of the Cas9/gRNA ribonucleoprotein into plant cells - Wusheng Liu; Mary R. Rudis; Matthew H. Cheplick; Reginald J. Millwood; Jian-Ping Yang; Christine A. Ondzighi-Assoume; Garrett A. Montgomery; Kellie P. Burris; Mitra Mazarei; Jonathan D. Chesnut; Charles Neal Stewart (Plant Cell Reports, 2020)

MiR-125a-5p Regulates Vitamin D Receptor Expression in a Mouse Model of Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis - Han-Chun Long; Rui Wu; Chun-Feng Liu; Fei-Long Xiong; Zu Xu; Dian He; Yi-Fan Zhang; Bing Shao; Ping-An Zhang; Guang-Yin Xu; Lan Chu (Neuroscience Bulletin, 2020)

Roles of PTBP1 in alternative splicing, glycolysis, and oncogensis - Wei Zhu; Bo-lun Zhou; Li-juan Rong; Li Ye; Hong-juan Xu; Yao Zhou; Xue-jun Yan; Wei-dong Liu; Bin Zhu; Lei Wang; Xing-jun Jiang; Cai-ping Ren (Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE B, 2020)

Soil types differentiated their responses of aggregate stability to hydrological stresses at the riparian zones of the Three Gorges Reservoir - Yiguo Ran; Shengjun Wu; Kai Zhu; Wenjuan Li; Zhimei Liu; Ping Huang (Journal of Soils and Sediments, 2020)

A Meta-analysis of the Association Between SLC6A3 Gene Polymorphisms and Schizophrenia - Feng-ling Xu; Mei Ding; Xue Wu; Yong-ping Liu; Xi Xia; Jun Yao; Bao-jie Wang (Journal of Molecular Neuroscience, 2020)

Risk factors and clinical characteristics of tacrolimus-induced acute nephrotoxicity in children with nephrotic syndrome: a retrospective case-control study - Ping Gao; Xin-Lei Guan; Rui Huang; Xiao-Fang Shang-guan; Jiang-Wei Luan; Mao-Chang Liu; Hua Xu; Xiao-Wen Wang (European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 2020)

Copper Changes Intestinal Microbiota of the Cecum and Rectum in Female Mice by 16S rRNA Gene Sequencing - Sufang Cheng; Huirong Mao; Yezhao Ruan; Cong Wu; Zheng Xu; Guoliang Hu; Xiaoquan Guo; Caiying Zhang; Huabin Cao; Ping Liu (Biological Trace Element Research, 2020)

Quantitative proteomic analysis reveals that the Rap1/MAPK/ERK pathway is inhibited through selenomethionine strengthening antioxidant activity - Zhe Liu; Feng Zhang; Lina Cui; Jihong Wang; Ping Lu; Rui Zhao; Hua Zhang; Jianfa Wang; Chunqiu Li; Rui Wu (BioMetals, 2020)

Heme oxygenase-1 regulates autophagy through carbon–oxygen to alleviate deoxynivalenol-induced hepatic damage - Zhao Peng; Yuxiao Liao; Xiaoqian Wang; Liangkai Chen; Liangliang Wang; Chenyuan Qin; Zhenting Wang; Mengyao Cai; Jiawei Hu; Dan Li; Ping Yao; Andreas K. Nüssler; et al. (Archives of Toxicology, 2020)

Isolation, identification and character analysis of Streptococcus dysgalactiae from Megalobrama terminalis - Fei Zhao; Shan He; Ai‐ping Tan; Xue‐zhong Guo; Lan Jiang; Cui Liu‐Fu; Yu‐ting Deng; Rui‐quan Zhang (Journal of Fish Diseases, 2020)
Pure bacterial cultures were isolated from different tissues of moribund Megalobrama terminalis from a high mortality event that occurred at a farm in Foshan, China. Two isolates (F2 and F3) were identified as Streptococcus dysgalactiae subsp. dysgalactiae based on morphological and biochemical detection as well as molecular analysis. In brain heart infusion broth, the best growth conditions of isolate F3 were 35ºC, salinity 5‰ and pH 7. Furthermore, infection with isolate F3 (1.2 × 10 6 CFU/fish) led to the death of M. terminalis and zebrafish ( Danio rerio ). However, isolate F3 had no obvious pathogenicity to tilapia (GIFT, Oreochromis niloticus ). When the water temperature was 29ºC, the corresponding mortality rates for zebrafish infected by isolate F3 were higher than those at 23ºC. Culture for 24 and 72 hr with isolate F3 resulted in the same mortality rates for zebrafish. The antimicrobial susceptibility assay revealed that isolate F3 was susceptible to ampicillin, florfenicol and several other antibiotics but resistant to nalidixic acid, streptomycin, sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim, neomycin and amikacin. To our knowledge, this is the first report that S. dysgalactiae infected the subtropical freshwater fish M. terminalis , which indicates that this bacterium is a potential threat to subtropical freshwater fish.

EFFECT OF A ROOT‐ZONE INJECTION IRRIGATION METHOD ON WATER PRODUCTIVITY AND APPLE PRODUCTION IN A SEMI‐ARID REGION IN NORTH‐WESTERN CHINA - Yan‐Ping Wang; Lin‐Sen Zhang; Yan Mu; Wei‐Hong Liu; Fu‐Xing Guo; Tian‐Ran Chang (Irrigation and Drainage, 2020)
Within the Chinese Loess Plateau, water resources are scarce and irrigation efficiency is a challenging issue. Traditional surface drip irrigation (SDI) methods have failed to improve irrigation efficiency and reduce surface evaporation in the region. An easy‐to‐install and practicable root‐zone injection irrigation (RII) method, with a low risk of emitter clogging and which uses subsurface infiltration‐promoting apparatuses (SIPA) to deliver water directly to the root zone, was designed and tested in an apple orchard over 3 years in northern Shaanxi, China. In the 0–0.6 m soil layer (where the apple roots are concentrated), the RII method produced consistently higher soil water content than the SDI method over all three growing seasons. The soil water content was consistently higher than 60% of field capacity, thus meeting the water requirements of fruit‐bearing apple trees. In addition, the RII method alleviated soil desiccation, significantly increased apple yields and improved fruit quality compared with the SDI method using the same volume of irrigation water. Both irrigation efficiency and water‐use efficiency were improved with the RII method. These results provide a theoretical basis for the utilization of the RII irrigation method in apple orchards in semi‐arid regions, which may improve water conservation and the sustainability of apple production. © 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

The false smut pathogen Ustilaginoidea virens requires rice stamens for false smut ball formation - Jing Fan; Jie Liu; Zhi‐You Gong; Pei‐Zhou Xu; Xiao‐Hong Hu; Jin‐Long Wu; Guo‐Bang Li; Juan Yang; Yu‐Qiu Wang; Yu‐Feng Zhou; Shuang‐Cheng Li; Li Wang; et al. (Environmental Microbiology, 2020)
Summary Rice false smut has emerged as a serious grain disease in rice production worldwide. The disease is characterized by the transformation of individual rice florets into false smut balls, which is caused by the fungal pathogen Ustilaginoidea virens . To date, little is known about the host factors required for false smut ball formation by U . virens . In this study, we identified histological determinants for the formation of false smut balls by inoculating U . virens into rice floral mutants defective with respect to individual floral parts. The results showed that U . virens could form mature false smut balls in rice floral mutants with defective pistils, but failed to develop false smut balls in the superwoman mutant lacking stamens, identifying that U . virens requires rice stamens to complete its infection cycle. Comparative transcriptome analysis indicated a list of candidate host genes that may facilitate nutrient acquisition by U . virens from the rice stamens, such as SWEET11 , SWEET14 and SUT5 , and genes involved in the biosynthesis of trehalose and raffinose family sugars. These data pinpoint rice stamens as the key target organ of U . virens infection and provide a valuable starting point for dissecting the molecular mechanism of false smut ball formation.

Reduction of the Criteria System for Identifying Effective Reservoirs in the Joint Operation of a Flood Control System - Jieyu Li; Ping-an Zhong; Feilin Zhu; Juan Chen; Minzhi Yang; Jisi Fu; Weifeng Liu (Water Resources Management, 2020)

Development and preliminary application of a gridded surface air temperature homogenized dataset for China - Yan Xu; Ping Zhao; Dong Si; Lei Cao; Xueyuan Wu; Yufei Zhao; Na Liu (Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 2020)

MicroRNAs in tumor immunity: functional regulation in tumor-associated macrophages - Chong Chen; Jia-ming Liu; Yun-ping Luo (Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE B, 2020)

Human exposure of bisphenol A and its analogues: understandings from human urinary excretion data and wastewater-based epidemiology - Hao Wang; Ze-hua Liu; Jun Zhang; Ri-Ping Huang; Hua Yin; Zhi Dang (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020)

Climatologies of blocking highs detected by a unified Eddy-ABS approach - Ping Liu (Climate Dynamics, 2020)

Relative energy zero ratio-based approach for identifying pulse-like ground motions - Ping Liu; Ning Li; Hua Ma; Lili Xie; Baofeng Zhou (Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration, 2020)

Characterization and genome sequencing of a novel T7-like lytic phage, kpssk3, infecting carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae - Yunlong Shi; Yu Chen; Zichen Yang; Yulong Zhang; Bo You; Xinzhu Liu; Ping Chen; Meixi Liu; Cheng Zhang; Xiaoqiang Luo; Yajie Chen; Zhiqiang Yuan; et al. (Archives of Virology, 2020)

Risk profiling using metabolomic characteristics for susceptible individuals of drug-induced liver injury caused by Polygonum multiflorum - Le Zhang; Ming Niu; Ai-wu Wei; Jin-fa Tang; Can Tu; Zhao-fang Bai; Zheng-sheng Zou; Xiao-he Xiao; You-ping Liu; Jia-bo Wang (Archives of Toxicology, 2020)

Mineralogy and mineral geochemistry of the Tuwu porphyry Cu deposit, Eastern Tianshan, NW China: implication for the ore-forming condition and Cu mineralization - Hongqing Yuan; Ping Shen; Hongdi Pan; Yang Liu (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2020)

Numerical Investigation into the Effect of Damage Openings on Ship Hydrodynamics by the Overset Mesh Technique - Xinlong Zhang; Zhuang Lin; Simone Mancini; Ping Li; Dengke Liu; Fei Liu; Zhanwei Pang (Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2019)
Damage stability is difficult to assess due to the complex hydrodynamic phenomena regarding interactions between fluid and structures. Therefore, a detailed analysis of the flooding progression and motion responses is important for improving ship safety. In this paper, numerical simulations are performed on the damaged DTMB 5415 ship at zero speed. All calculation are carried out using CD Adapco Star CCM + software, investigating the effect of damage openings on ship hydrodynamics, including the side damage and the bottom damage. The computational domain is modelled by the overset mesh and solved using the unsteady Reynold-average Navier-Stokes (URANS) solver. An implicit solver is used to find the field of all hydrodynamics unknown quantities, in conjunction with an iterative solver to solve each time step. The Volume of Fluid (VOF) method is applied to visualize the flooding process and capture the complex hydrodynamics behaviors. The simulation results indicated that two damage locations produce the characteristic flooding processes, and the motion responses corresponding to the hydrodynamic behaviors are different. Through comparative analysis, due to the difference between the horizontal impact on the longitudinal bulkhead and the vertical impact on the bottom plate, the bottom damage scenario always has a larger heel angle than the side damage scenario in the same period. However, the pitch motions are basically consistent. Generally, the visualization of the flooding process is efficient to explain the causes of the motion responses. Also, when the damage occurs, regardless of the bottom damage or the side damage, the excessive heel angle due to asymmetric flooding is often a threat to ship survivability with respect to the pitch angle.

Carbazole alkaloids from Clausena emarginata with their potential antiproliferative activities - Yan-Hui Fu; Yan-Lei Ma; Gui Yan; Qing Wen; Shi Hu; Zhi-Hua Jiang; Jin-Ying Tang; Yan-Ping Liu (Natural Product Research, 2019)

Probiotic Clostridium butyricum Improves the Growth Performance, Immune Function, and Gut Microbiota of Weaning Rex Rabbits - Lei Liu; Dong Zeng; Mingyue Yang; Bin Wen; Jing Lai; Yi Zhou; Hao Sun; Lvcheng Xiong; Jie Wang; Yicen Lin; Kangcheng Pan; Bo Jing; et al. (Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins, 2019)

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Resibufogenin suppresses tumor growth and inhibits glycolysis in ovarian cancer by modulating PIM1 - Qian Li; Chuanwu Jiang; Yan Wang; Minghua Wei; Huijin Zheng; Yanqi Xu; Xuegang Xu; Fengyu Jia; Kai Liu; Gang Sun; Jianhua Zang; Ping Mo (Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology, 2019)

Overexpression of BmFoxO inhibited larval growth and promoted glucose synthesis and lipolysis in silkworm - Zhongyan Lu; Zhu Meng; Maoyu Wen; Xiaoli Kang; Yan Zhang; Qingsong Liu; Ping Zhao; Qingyou Xia (Molecular Genetics and Genomics, 2019)

Potential role of IL-37 signaling pathway in feedback regulation of autoimmune Hashimoto thyroiditis - Cui-Ping Ren; Li Sun; Feng-Chun Liu; Chun-Lin Zuo; Miao Liu; Wenda Gao; Ji-Jia Shen (Histochemistry and Cell Biology, 2019)

A high throughput method for screening deep-seeding tolerance in sorghum - Guihua Zou; Lengbo Zhou; Guowei Zhai; Yanqing Ding; Ping Lu; Heqin Liu; Xueqiang Zhen; Xiuhui Liu; Liyi Zhang; Zhanguo Xin; Heyun Chen (Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, 2019)

Paramyxoviruses respiratory syncytial virus, parainfluenza virus, and human metapneumovirus infection in pediatric hospitalized patients and climate correlation in a subtropical region of southern China: a 7-year survey - Wen-Kuan Liu; De-Hui Chen; Wei-Ping Tan; Shu-Yan Qiu; Duo Xu; Li Zhang; Shu-Jun Gu; Rong Zhou; Qian Liu (European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, 2019)

Inositol as a new enhancer for improving lipid production and accumulation in Schizochytrium sp. SR21 - Zhao-Xin Liu; Shuai You; Bin-Ping Tang; Bo Wang; Sheng Sheng; Fu-An Wu; Jun Wang (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2019)

Research on ecological risk assessment in land use model of Shengjin Lake in Anhui province, China - Liang Peng; Bin Dong; Ping Wang; Shuwei Sheng; Li Sun; Lei Fang; Haoran Li; Liping Liu (Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 2019)

Regulating effect of CBF on memory in cognitively normal older adults with different ApoE genotype: the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) - Junyang Wang; Guoping Peng; Ping Liu; Xufei Tan; Benyan Luo (Cognitive Neurodynamics, 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)

Ultrahigh Temperature Metamorphic Record of Pelitic Granulites in the Huangtuyao Area of the Huai’an Complex, North China Craton - Shaoting Ma; Xu-Ping Li; Hao Liu; Fanmei Kong; Han Wang (Journal of Earth Science, 2019)

The complete chloroplast genome of the daimyo oak, Quercus dentata Thunb. - Hua-Lei Hu; Jing-Yu Zhang; Yu-Ping Li; Lu Xie; Dong-Bin Chen; Qun Li; Yan-Qun Liu; Shu-Rong Hui; Li Qin (Conservation Genetics Resources, 2019)

Thermus caldilimi sp. nov., a thermophilic bacterium isolated from a geothermal area - Meng-Meng Li; Wen-Dong Xian; Xiao-Tong Zhang; Yi-Rui Yin; En-Min Zhou; Yi-Ping Ding; Lan Liu; Bao-Zhu Fang; Wen-Jun Li (Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, 2019)

Genome-based reclassification of Bacillus plakortidis Borchert et al. 2007 and Bacillus lehensis Ghosh et al. 2007 as a later heterotypic synonym of Bacillus oshimensis Yumoto et al. 2005; Bacillus rhizosphaerae Madhaiyan et al. 2011 as a later heterotypic synonym of Bacillus clausii Nielsen et al. 1995 - Guo-Hong Liu; Manik Prabhu Narsing Rao; Zhou-Yan Dong; Jie-Ping Wang; Jian-Mei Che; Qian-Qian Chen; Cetin Sengonca; Bo Liu; Wen-Jun Li (Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, 2019)

Multi‐model analysis of climate impacts on plant photosynthesis in China during 2000–2015 - Hao Yan; Shao‐Qiang Wang; Jun‐Bang Wang; Yun Cao; Ling‐Ling Xu; Men‐Xin Wu; Lu Cheng; Liu‐Xi Mao; Feng‐Hua Zhao; Xian‐Zhou Zhang; Yun‐Fen Liu; Yan‐Fen Wang; et al. (International Journal of Climatology, 2019)
Differences, arising from differences in gross primary production (GPP) model structures and driving forces, have fuelled arguments concerning interannual changes of GPP in China since 2000. To better investigate the interannual variability of GPP and its covariance with climate factors in China, this study adopted a multi‐model analysis based on three GPP models (i.e., Terrestrial Ecosystem Carbon flux model [TEC], Breathing Earth System Simulator model [BESS], and MOD17 GPP model). The results show that annual GPP in China increased by 0.021–0.057 Pg C year −1 from 2000 to 2015 attributable to atmospheric‐CO 2 fertilization effects and favourable climate change, that is, increasing precipitation ( P r ) and temperature ( T a ). However, northern China and southern China had a large difference in the amplitude of these GPP changes; annual GPP increased by 0.017–0.039 Pg C year −1 in northern China but only 0.001–0.018 Pg C year −1 in southern China. Northern China and southern China occupy contrasting climate zones and this contrast produced different interannual variability of GPP through different mechanisms. Northern China has a dry climate with GPP changes sensitive to P r . As a result, more P r along with higher T a in northern China produced the strong uptrend of GPP from 2000 to 2015. In contrast, southern China has a wet climate with its GPP sensitive to solar radiation and T a . For the interval of 2000–2015, decreasing radiation plus drought exerted a negative influence on GPP in southern China. This study highlights the diverse mechanisms in which climate change affects GPP in dry and wet climate zones. A robust multi‐model analysis is preferred to reduce uncertainties arising from a single GPP model and its driving data.

HprK Xcc is a serine kinase that regulates virulence in the Gram‐negative phytopathogen Xanthomonas campestris - Rui‐Fang Li; Ping Cui; Ping‐Zhen Wei; Xing‐Yan Liu; Ji‐Liang Tang; Guang‐Tao Lu (Environmental Microbiology, 2019)
Summary The HprK serine kinase is a component of the phosphoenolpyruvate phosphotransferase system (PTS) of bacteria that generally regulates catabolite repression through phosphorylation/dephosphorylation of the PTS protein PtsH at a conserved serine residue. However, many bacteria do not encode a complete PTS or even have an HprK homologue. Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris ( Xcc ) is a pathogen that cause black rot disease in crucifer plants and one of the few Gram‐negative bacteria that encodes a homologue of HprK protein (herein HprK Xcc ). To gain insight into the role of HprK Xcc and other PTS‐related components in Xcc we individually mutated and phenotypically assessed the resulting strains. Deletion of hprK Xcc demonstrated its requirement for virulence and other diverse cellular processes associated including extracellular enzyme activity, extracellular‐polysaccharide production and cell motility. Global transcriptome analyses revealed the HprK Xcc had a broad regulatory role in Xcc . Additionally, through overexpression, double gene deletion and transcriptome analysis we demonstrated that hprK Xcc shares an epistatic relationship with ptsH . Furthermore, we demonstrate that HprK Xcc is a functional serine kinase, which has the ability to phosphorylate PtsH. Taken together, the data illustrates the previously unappreciated global regulatory role of HprK Xcc and previously uncharacterized PTS components that control virulence in this pathogen.

The characteristics of moisture recycling and its impact on regional precipitation against the background of climate warming over Northwest China - Ping Wu; Yihui Ding; Yanju Liu; Xiucang Li (International Journal of Climatology, 2019)
From 1961 to 2015, annual and seasonal precipitation have shown a significant increase over Northwest China (NW). The change of precipitation is a combination result of the changing recycling precipitation (P w ) contributed by local evapotranspiration (ET) and changing precipitation contributed by advection moisture (P o ). In this paper, we calculated the ET based on the observation data of meteorological stations and the complementary relationship model. Then used an improved precipitation recycling model to analyse influential factors on the variation of precipitation over the NW from aspects of ET and advection moisture. The annual precipitation recycling ratio ( ρ ) fluctuates between 4% and 10% and shows an increasing trend at a rate of 0.3% /10a with a significance level of 0.01. ET, which is the internal supplier of the precipitable water, and advection moisture, which is the outside supplier of the precipitable water, both have displayed significantly increasing trends over the NW. The advection moisture contributes precipitation much more than ET, no matter in the annual scale or seasonal scales. In view of the spatial distribution, P w shows an increasing trend over the whole NW, but distinctly opposite spatial patterns of P o are found between the western area of NW (WNW) and the eastern area of NW (ENW). Such differences caused the precipitation is characterized by a wetting trend in WNW but a drying trend in ENW.

Netrin-1 promotes the collective cell migration of liver cancer cells in a 3D cell culture model - Ping Han; Jingmei Liu; Yu Lei; Zhuoying Lin; Dean Tian; Wei Yan (Journal of Physiology and Biochemistry, 2019)

METTL1 overexpression is correlated with poor prognosis and promotes hepatocellular carcinoma via PTEN - Qiu-Hong Tian; Mei-Fang Zhang; Jin-Sheng Zeng; Rong-Guang Luo; Yang Wen; Jun Chen; Liu-Gen Gan; Jian-Ping Xiong (Journal of Molecular Medicine, 2019)

An integrative bioinformatics analysis identified miR-375 as a candidate key regulator of malignant breast cancer - Jiaxuan Liu; Ping Wang; Ping Zhang; Xinyu Zhang; Hang Du; Qiang Liu; Bo Huang; Caiyun Qian; Shuhua Zhang; Weifeng Zhu; Xiaohong Yang; Yingqun Xiao; et al. (Journal of Applied Genetics, 2019)

Nitrate removal from groundwater using negatively charged nanofiltration membrane - Lianpei Zou; Sitong Zhang; Jianyong Liu; Yi Cao; Guangren Qian; Yu-You Li; Zhi Ping Xu (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2019)

Residual behavior and risk assessment of prochloraz in bayberries and bayberry wine for the Chinese population - Hui-yu Zhao; Gui-ling Yang; Yin-lan Liu; Hai-ping Ye; Xing-jiang Qi; Qiang Wang (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2019)

Wind and sand control by an oasis protective system: a case from the southeastern edge of the Tengger Desert, China - Yun-hu Xie; Xiao-hong Dang; Zhong-ju Meng; Hong-tao Jiang; Xiao-jia Li; Rui-ping Zhou; Dan-dan Zhou; Xiao-xi Liu; Jing Ding; Xue-qin Wu; Yu-hao Wang; Chun-xing Hai; et al. (Journal of Mountain Science, 2019)

Two novel alkaliphiles, Bacillus alkalisoli sp. nov., and Bacillus solitudinis sp. nov., isolated from saline-alkali soil - Guo-Hong Liu; Manik Prabhu Narsing Rao; Zhou-Yan Dong; Jie-Ping Wang; Zheng Chen; Bo Liu; Wen-Jun Li (Extremophiles, 2019)

Geotechnical properties and stability of the submarine canyon in the northern South China Sea - Jie Liu; Lejun Liu; Ping Li; Shan Gao; Wei Gao; Yuanqin Xu (Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2019)

Development, Optimization, and Evaluation In Vitro/In Vivo of Oral Liquid System for Synchronized Sustained Release of Levodopa/Benserazide - Yang Qu; Wen-Long Lai; Yuan-Rong Xin; Fei-Qin Zhu; Yuan Zhu; Li Wang; Yue-ping Ding; Ying Xu; Hong-Fei Liu (AAPS PharmSciTech, 2019)

Unsupervised change detection of VHR remote sensing images based on multi-resolution Markov Random Field in wavelet domain - Chuntao Wei; Ping Zhao; Xiaoyong Li; Yuebing Wang; Fangyu Liu (International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2019)

Dissipation, residues and risk assessment of oxine-copper and pyraclostrobin in citrus - Xiangwu Liu; Ya Yang; Ya Chen; Qingtao Zhang; Ping Lu; Deyu Hu (Food Additives & Contaminants: Part A, 2019)

Upregulation of proBDNF in the Mesenteric Lymph Nodes in Septic Mice - Zhe Wang; Jia-Li Wu; Feng Zhong; Yu Liu; Yun-Qing Yu; Jing-Jing Sun; Shuang Wang; Hui Li; Xin-Fu Zhou; Zhao-Lan Hu; Ru-Ping Dai (Neurotoxicity Research, 2019)

Decreased miR-325-5p Contributes to Visceral Hypersensitivity Through Post-transcriptional Upregulation of CCL2 in Rat Dorsal Root Ganglia - Rui Wu; Ping-An Zhang; Xuelian Liu; Yuan Zhou; Meijie Xu; Xinghong Jiang; Jun Yan; Guang-Yin Xu (Neuroscience Bulletin, 2019)

Synthesis and antitumor evaluation of novel fused heterocyclic 1,2,4-triazolo[3,4-b]-1,3,4-thiadiazole derivatives - Xiao-Jia Liu; Hai-Ying Liu; Hai-Xin Wang; Yan-Ping Shi; Rui Tang; Shuai Zhang; Bao-Quan Chen (Medicinal Chemistry Research, 2019)

Phosphate-induced ORAI1 expression and store-operated Ca2+ entry in aortic smooth muscle cells - Ke Ma; Ping Liu; Tamer Al-Maghout; Basma Sukkar; Hang Cao; Jakob Voelkl; Ioana Alesutan; Burkert Pieske; Florian Lang (Journal of Molecular Medicine, 2019)

Expression of Ihh signaling pathway in condylar cartilage after bite-raising in adult rats - Hui-qing Long; Peng-fei Tian; Yu-xin Guan; Ling-xia Liu; Xiu-ping Wu; Bing Li (Journal of Molecular Histology, 2019)

Simplified Analytical Method for Calculating the Uplift Capacity of a Single Pile in Nonhomogeneous Soil with a Nonlinear Failure Criterion - Hongtao Wang; Yunteng Yin; Feng Ma; Ping Liu (Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, 2019)

Pharmacokinetic study of imrecoxib in patients with renal insufficiency - Qi Pei; Jin-lian Xie; Jie Huang; Wen-yu Liu; Xiao-yan Yang; Yan Wang; Wei Li; Hong-yi Tan; Hao Zhang; Guo-Ping Yang (European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 2019)

Dominant patterns of winter-time intraseasonal surface air temperature over the CONUS in response to MJO convections - Wenting Hu; Ping Liu; Qin Zhang; Bian He (Climate Dynamics, 2019)

Anatomy of mining-induced fault slip and a triggered rockburst - Cai-Ping Lu; Bin Liu; Biao Liu; Yang Liu; Hong-Yu Wang; Heng Zhang (Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, 2019)

Deubiquitylatinase inhibitor b-AP15 induces c-Myc-Noxa-mediated apoptosis in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma - Beibei Sha; Xiaoyu Chen; Han Wu; Miaomiao Li; Jianxiang Shi; Longhao Wang; Xingge Liu; Ping Chen; Tao Hu; Pei Li (Apoptosis, 2019)

Income diversification strategies and household welfare: empirical evidence from forestry farm households in China - Yan-Zhen Hong; Wei-Ping Liu; Yong-Wu Dai (Agroforestry Systems, 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)

Furanocoumarins with potential antiproliferative activities from Clausena lenis - Yan-Ping Liu; Qing Wen; Shi Hu; Yan-Lei Ma; Zhi-Hua Jiang; Jin-Ying Tang; Yan-Hui Fu; Shen-Xiang Qiu (Natural Product Research, 2019)

Microsatellite records for volume 11, issue 3 - Pengfei Hu; Hao-Xiang Liu; Ying Pan; Yan-Fu Qu; Xueqi Tian; Ke-Xin Wang; Yu-Heng Wei; Xue-Ping Wu; Xiumei Xing; Zhengyi Zhang; Pei Zhao; Yu-Tian Zhao; et al. (Conservation Genetics Resources, 2019)

Sanguinarine inhibits the proliferation of BGC-823 gastric cancer cells via regulating miR-96-5p/miR-29c-3p and the MAPK/JNK signaling pathway - Xian-Zhe Dong; Yan Song; Yu-Pan Lu; Yuan Hu; Ping Liu; Lan Zhang (Journal of Natural Medicines, 2019)

Mechanisms of Rockburst Triggered by Slip and Fracture of Coal–Parting–Coal Structure Discontinuities - Cai-Ping Lu; Guang-Jian Liu; Yang Liu; Heng Zhang (Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, 2019)

Exotic Spartina alterniflora invasion alters soil nitrous oxide emission dynamics in a coastal wetland of China - Dengzhou Gao; Lijun Hou; Xiaofei Li; Min Liu; Yanling Zheng; Guoyu Yin; Yi Yang; Cheng Liu; Ping Han (Plant and Soil, 2019)

Synthesis and biological evaluation of novel disulfides incorporating 1,3,4-thiadiazole scaffold as promising antitumor agents - Sha Li; Hai-Xin Wang; Hai-Ying Liu; Fen Jing; Xiao-Yun Fu; Cai-Wen Li; Yan-Ping Shi; Bao-Quan Chen (Medicinal Chemistry Research, 2019)

A new triterpene from the green walnut husks of Juglans mandshurica Maxim - Yuan-Yuan Zhou; Hong-Juan Song; Shuang Guo; Ying Wang; Hui-Rui Gao; Xiao-Juan Zhang; Yan-Ping Sun; Yan Liu; Bing-You Yang; Hai-Xue Kuang (Journal of Natural Medicines, 2019)

5-Azacytidine and trichostatin A enhance the osteogenic differentiation of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells isolated from steroid-induced avascular necrosis of the femoral head in rabbit - Peng Zhang; Fulin Tao; Qinghu Li; Shuai Wu; Baisheng Fu; Ping Liu (Journal of Biosciences, 2019)

Nitrogen isotope composition of ammonium in PM2.5 in the Xiamen, China: impact of non-agricultural ammonia - Shui-Ping Wu; Heng Zhu; Zhe Liu; Lu-Hong Dai; Ning Zhang; James J. Schwab; Chung-Shin Yuan; Jin-Pei Yan (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2019)

High-altitude and long-range transport of aerosols causing regional severe haze during extreme dust storms explains why afforestation does not prevent storms - Ping Guo; Shaocai Yu; Liqiang Wang; Pengfei Li; Zhen Li; Khalid Mehmood; Xue Chen; Weiping Liu; Yannian Zhu; Xing Yu; Kiran Alapaty; Eric Lichtfouse; et al. (Environmental Chemistry Letters, 2019)

Identification of cis-regulatory regions responsible for developmental and hormonal regulation of HbHMGS1 in transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana - Xiao-Xiao Gong; Bing-Yu Yan; Yu-Rong Tan; Xuan Gao; Dan Wang; Heng Zhang; Peng Wang; Shuang-Jiang Li; Yi Wang; Lu-Yao Zhou; Jin-Ping Liu (Biotechnology Letters, 2019)

DNA methylation and mRNA expression of COL6A3 in antler mesenchyme of female and male reindeer - Jian-Cheng Zhai; Ruo-Bing Han; Sheng-Nan Wang; Qiang-Hui Wang; Yan-Ling Xia; Wei-Shi Liu; Ya-Jie Yin; He-Ping Li (Genes & Genomics, 2019)

Isolation and characterization of a novel temperate bacteriophage from gut-associated Escherichia within black soldier fly larvae (Hermetia illucens L. [Diptera: Stratiomyidae]) - Yibao Chen; Xiangmin Li; Jiaoyang Song; Dan Yang; Wenqiang Liu; Huanchun Chen; Bin Wu; Ping Qian (Archives of Virology, 2019)

Numerical simulation of ground motion amplification in Modong area, Lushan - Chao Han; Jiashun Yu; Wei-Zu Liu; Jian-Long Yuan; Xiao-Bo Fu; Xiao-Ping Hou (Applied Geophysics, 2019)

Characterizing Spatial Patterns of NO2 and SO2 in Xi’an by Passive Sampling - Jie Liu; Ping Wang; Zhaomei Liu; Qixiang Ma; Junning Liang; Jie Chen; Junji Cao (Aerosol Science and Engineering, 2019)

Leaf area–length allometry and its implications in leaf shape evolution - Peijian Shi; Mengdi Liu; David A. Ratkowsky; Johan Gielis; Jialu Su; Xiaojing Yu; Ping Wang; Lifang Zhang; Zhiyi Lin; Julian Schrader (Trees, 2019)

Extreme stress threatened double rice production in Southern China during 1981–2010 - Sheng-Li Liu; Xing Wang; Shou-Tian Ma; Xin Zhao; Fu Chen; Xiao-Ping Xiao; Rattan Lal; Hai-Lin Zhang (Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 2019)

microRNA-520c-3p suppresses NLRP3 inflammasome activation and inflammatory cascade in preeclampsia by downregulating NLRP3 - Zhaochun Liu; Xia Zhao; HongYing Shan; Huan Gao; Ping Wang (Inflammation Research, 2019)

BlaOXA-10 and PSE-1 Genes Located on Class 1 Integrons in Gallibacterium anatis - Zhi-feng Peng; Dong-sheng Gao; Xia Yang; Hong-ying Liu; He-ping Huangfu; Chuan-qing Wang (Current Microbiology, 2019)

Selenium-Yeast Alleviated Inflammatory Damage Caused by Lead via Inhibiting Ras/ERK Pathway and Inflammatory Factors in Chicken Skeletal Muscles - Zhe Liu; Feng Zhang; Ping Lu; Rui Zhao; Hua Zhang; Baifen Song; Liyang Li; Zhijun Wu; Rui Wu (Biological Trace Element Research, 2019)

Impact of prolonged rice cultivation on coupling relationship among C, Fe, and Fe-reducing bacteria over a 1000-year paddy soil chronosequence - Yalong Liu; Yuqi Dong; Tida Ge; Qaiser Hussain; Ping Wang; Jingkuan Wang; Yong Li; Georg Guggenberger; Jinshui Wu (Biology and Fertility of Soils, 2019)

Evaluation of TIGGE Daily Accumulated Precipitation Forecasts over the Qu River Basin, China - Li Liu; Chao Gao; Qian Zhu; Yue-Ping Xu (Journal of Meteorological Research, 2019)

Transcriptomic analysis provides insight into the mechanism of salinity adjustment in swimming crab Portunus trituberculatus - Baoquan Gao; Dongfang Sun; Jianjian Lv; Xianyun Ren; Ping Liu; Jian Li (Genes & Genomics, 2019)

Identification of SNP markers correlated with the tolerance of low-salinity challenge in swimming crab (Portunus trituberculatus) - Yanyan Feng; Dening Zhang; Jianjian Lv; Baoquan Gao; Jian Li; Ping Liu (Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2019)

F‐box proteins MoFwd1, MoCdc4 and MoFbx15 regulate development and pathogenicity in the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae - Huan‐Bin Shi; Nan Chen; Xue‐Ming Zhu; Shuang Liang; Lin Li; Jiao‐Yu Wang; Jian‐Ping Lu; Fu‐Cheng Lin; Xiao‐Hong Liu (Environmental Microbiology, 2019)
Summary The Skp1‐Cul1‐F‐box‐protein (SCF) ubiquitin ligases are important parts of the ubiquitin system controlling many cellular biological processes in eukaryotes. However, the roles of SCF ubiquitin ligases remain unclear in phytopathogenic Magnaporthe oryzae . Here, we cloned 24 F‐box proteins and confirmed that 17 proteins could interact with MoSkp1, showing their potential to participate in SCF complexes. To determine their functions, null mutants of 21 F‐box‐containing genes were created. Among them, the F‐box proteins MoFwd1, MoCdc4 and MoFbx15 were found to be required for growth, development and full virulence. Fluorescent‐microscopy observations demonstrated that both MoFbx15 and MoCdc4 were localized to the nucleus, compared with MoFwd1, which was distributed in the cytosol. MoCdc4 and MoFwd1 bound to MoSkp1 via the F‐box domain, the deletion of which abrogated their function. Race tube and qRT‐PCR assays confirmed that MoFwd1 was involved in circadian rhythm by regulating transcription and protein stability of the core circadian clock regulator MoFRQ . Moreover, MoFWD1 also orchestrates conidial germination by influencing conidial amino acids pools and oxidative stress release. Overall, our results indicate that SCF ubiquitin ligases play indispensable roles in development and pathogenicity in M. oryzae .

Finite element reverse time migration imaging in tunnels using an unstructured mesh - Jing Wang; Jiang-Ping Liu; Fei Cheng; Huai-Jie Yang; Yi-Fan Huang (Applied Geophysics, 2019)

A Numerical Investigation on the Flooding Process of Multiple Compartments Based on the Volume of Fluid Method - XinLong Zhang; Zhuang Lin; Simone Mancini; Ping Li; Ze Li; Fei Liu (Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2019)
A detailed description of the flooding process is crucial to analyze the complex hydrodynamic behaviors and enhance the survivability of the damaged ship. In this paper, through establishing three typical damage scenarios with various locations, the commercial software CD Adapco STAR-CCM+ based on the Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) solver is applied to simulate the flooding process involving multiple compartments. The basic computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models and specific simulation settings are elaborated. The volume of fluid (VOF) method combined with the user defined field function is developed to distribute the initial free surface. The captured flooding process indicates that the air compression due to the restricted ventilation decreases the flooding amount. The obtained flooding time can provide necessary data to support for appropriate rescue management and evacuation options.

Expression and characterization of two chitinases with synergistic effect and antifungal activity from Xenorhabdus nematophila - Jia Liu; Ziyan NanGong; Jie Zhang; Ping Song; Yin Tang; Yue Gao; Qinying Wang (World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2019)

Paternal effects on fatty acid composition of tree peony seed oil - Qing Hao; Li-Ping Peng; Zhen Li; Si-Qi Men; Ning-Ning Tong; Qing-Yan Shu; Zheng-An Liu (Euphytica, 2019)

Simulated ENSO's impact on tropical cyclone genesis over the western North Pacific in CMIP5 models and its changes under global warming - Kexin Tan; Ping Huang; Fei Liu; Hiroyuki Murakami; Pang‐chi Hsu (International Journal of Climatology, 2019)
El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) plays an important role in modulating the location of tropical cyclone (TC) genesis over the western North Pacific (WNP). This study evaluated the simulation of the ENSO's impact on WNP TC genesis in 10 CMIP5 models based on a TC detection method, and projected its changes under global warming using the historical and the representative concentration pathway 8.5 (RCP8.5) simulations. The observed southeast–northwest shift role of ENSO in the WNP TC genesis location can be well reproduced in most of the models, although the strength of the ENSO's impact is underestimated as the underestimated climatological TC genesis frequency in these models. Moreover, we found the WNP TC during both El Niño and La Niña events shows an apparent eastwards shift under global warming. However, this eastwards shift of WNP TC genesis could be associated with the changes in climatological TC genesis but not the changes in the ENSO's impact. The projected changes in the ENSO's impact on WNP TC genesis is not as certain as we expected based on the previous conclusions of the robust changes in ENSO's impact on large‐scale environment. As a result, we suggest that both the TC genesis climatology and ENSO's impact on TC genesis simulated in the models need improvement in future to project the changes in ENSO's impact under global warming, and more models with 6‐hourly outputs used to detect TCs are needed to increase the confidence of multi‐model ensemble projections.

High Circulatory Phosphate Level Is Associated with Cerebral Small-Vessel Diseases - Chih-Ping Chung; Li-Ning Peng; Kun-Hsien Chou; Li-Kuo Liu; Wei-Ju Lee; Ching-Po Lin; Liang-Kung Chen; Pei-Ning Wang (Translational Stroke Research, 2019)

Bulked segregant RNA-sequencing (BSR-seq) identified a novel rare allele of eIF4E effective against multiple isolates of BaYMV/BaMMV - Lijie Shi; Congcong Jiang; Qiang He; Antje Habekuß; Frank Ordon; Haiye Luan; Huiquan Shen; Jun Liu; Zongyun Feng; Jing Zhang; Ping Yang (Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2019)

Lateral Organ Boundaries Domain 19 (LBD19) negative regulate callus formation in Arabidopsis - Siqi Liu; Bo Wang; Xiaojing Li; Jingxian Pan; Xuexue Qian; Yahui Yu; Ping Xu; Jian Zhu; Xiaofeng Xu (Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC), 2019)

Up-Regulation of Trem2 Inhibits Hippocampal Neuronal Apoptosis and Alleviates Oxidative Stress in Epilepsy via the PI3K/Akt Pathway in Mice - Ai-Hua Liu; Min Chu; Yu-Ping Wang (Neuroscience Bulletin, 2019)

Favus of Scrotum Due to Trichophyton rubrum in Immunocompetent Patients: A Clinical, Mycological and Ultrastructural Study - Ze-Hu Liu; Xiu-Jiao Xia; Yong Zhang; Yan Zhong; Bo Sang; Qiu-Ping Li; Mei Wang; Wen-Wen Lv; Hui-Lin Zhi; Xiang-Dong Wang; Cui-Ping Guan; Hong Shen (Mycopathologia, 2019)

TA, GT and AC are significantly under-represented in open reading frames of prokaryotic and eukaryotic protein-coding genes - Yong Wang; Zhen Zeng; Tian-Lei Liu; Ling Sun; Qin Yao; Ke-Ping Chen (Molecular Genetics and Genomics, 2019)

Research on Evolution Rule of Inclination Fracture Field and Support Technology in Close Distance and Inclined Coal Seam Mining - Ping Liu; Huai-qian Liu; Qing Ma; Qing-he Lu; Mao-qi Liu (Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, 2019)

Study on Stability of Goaf Pillars in Daqiao Phosphate Mine: Theoretical Calculation and Field Investigation - Feifei Wang; Ping Zou; Zhonghua Meng; Aibing Li; Zhengyu Liu; Wanjie Hu; Zeng Ma (Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, 2019)

Experimental investigation on the migration of leachate under flowing conditions through laboratory ERT - Ping Yang; Yao-hui Liu; Si-hao Zhang; Ya-fei Pan (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2019)

Characterization of carbonaceous fractions in PM2.5 and PM10 over a typical industrial city in central China - Changlin Zhan; Jiaquan Zhang; Jingru Zheng; Ruizhen Yao; Ping Wang; Hongxia Liu; Wensheng Xiao; Xianli Liu; Junji Cao (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2019)

The Tibetan Plateau Surface-Atmosphere Coupling System and Its Weather and Climate Effects: The Third Tibetan Plateau Atmospheric Science Experiment - Ping Zhao; Yueqing Li; Xueliang Guo; Xiangde Xu; Yimin Liu; Shihao Tang; Wenming Xiao; Chunxiang Shi; Yaoming Ma; Xing Yu; Huizhi Liu; La Jia; et al. (Journal of Meteorological Research, 2019)

Groundwater recharge under irrigated agro-ecosystems in the North China Plain: From a critical zone perspective - Leilei Min; Yongqing Qi; Yanjun Shen; Ping Wang; Shiqin Wang; Meiying Liu (Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2019)

Digitizing and modeling of structural planes in fractured rock mass tunnel based on SfM - Shang-qu Sun; Li-ping Li; Cheng-shuai Qin; Hong-liang Liu; Yan-huan Zhang; Xing-zhi Ba (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2019)

Effects of mineral-organic fertilizer on the biomass of green Chinese cabbage and potential carbon sequestration ability in karst areas of Southwest China - Qibiao Sun; Yulong Ruan; Ping Chen; Shijie Wang; Xiuming Liu; Bin Lian (Acta Geochimica, 2019)

The distribution of plants and seed dispersers in response to habitat fragmentation in an artificial island archipelago - Jiajia Liu; Ferry Slik; David A. Coomes; Richard T. Corlett; Yanping Wang; Maxwell Wilson; Guang Hu; Ping Ding; Mingjian Yu (Journal of Biogeography, 2019)
Aim Small, old‐growth forest fragments generally have more small‐seeded plants than large patches, due to the disappearance of large seed dispersing vertebrates. This pattern may differ for secondary forest fragments where differential migration ability rather than persistence of seed dispersers may be driving plant community assembly. In this study, we investigated the effect of habitat fragmentation on seed dispersers and plant community structure in regenerating forests. Location The Thousand Island Lake, China. Taxon Plants, birds and mammals. Methods We compiled diversity and abundance data for birds and mammals on islands in the Thousand Island Lake, China. We also surveyed the secondary plant communities and measured seed dispersal traits. Results Community‐weighted mean seed size of woody plants decreased with island size. This pattern was related to compositional difference of the dispersers. We found that mammal diversity and abundance was only weakly or not related to island size; whereas bird diversity and abundance increased strongly with island size. Density of bird‐dispersed plants was significantly positively related with island size. Since birds tend to disperse smaller seeds than mammals, the trend in seed size may have been a consequence of the shift in relative abundance of the two disperser guilds. Main Conclusions Differential responses of seed dispersers to habitat fragmentation may lead to pervasive shifts in the plant community structure of regenerating forest fragments. Our study highlights the importance of keeping large continuous forests in order to retain mammals and their dispersal capabilities.

Regulation of T cell differentiation and function by epigenetic modification enzymes - Huicheng Liu; Pingfei Li; Zhengping Wei; Cai Zhang; Minghui Xia; Qiuyang Du; Yufei Chen; Na Liu; Huabin Li; Xiang-Ping Yang (Seminars in Immunopathology, 2019)

Genome-wide identification, phylogeny, and expression analysis of Sec14-like PITP gene family in sugarcane - Mao Hua-ying; Wang Wen-ju; Su Wei-hua; Su Ya-chun; Liu Feng; Li Cong-na; Wang Ling; Zhang Xu; Xu Li-ping; Que You-xiong (Plant Cell Reports, 2019)

Short-day treatment affects growth, physiological parameters and needle proteome of Chinese pine (Pinus tabuliformis Carr.) seedlings - Le Jiang; R. Kasten Dumroese; Yong Liu; Guolei Li; Ping Lin (New Forests, 2019)

Sediment transport in the Luanhe River delta: grain size trend analysis - Xiaoxiao Yu; Tiegang Li; Dongqi Gu; Aiping Feng; Shihao Liu; Ping Li; Guoqiang Xu; Wenwen Yan; Zhiwei Zhang; Zhengtao Zhu (Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2019)

Enzymatic transformation of ginsenosides Re, Rg1, and Rf to ginsenosides Rg2 and aglycon PPT by using β-glucosidase from Thermotoga neapolitana - Yun-Feng Bi; Xi-Zhu Wang; Shan Jiang; Jing-Sheng Liu; Ming-Zhu Zheng; Ping Chen (Biotechnology Letters, 2019)

High Doses of Copper and Mercury Changed Cecal Microbiota in Female Mice - Yezhao Ruan; Cong Wu; Xiaoquan Guo; Zheng Xu; Chenghong Xing; Huabin Cao; Caiying Zhang; Guoliang Hu; Ping Liu (Biological Trace Element Research, 2019)

Sodium Fluoride (NaF) Induces Inflammatory Responses Via Activating MAPKs/NF-κB Signaling Pathway and Reducing Anti-inflammatory Cytokine Expression in the Mouse Liver - Linlin Chen; Ping Kuang; Huan Liu; Qin Wei; Hengmin Cui; Jing Fang; Zhicai Zuo; Junliang Deng; Yinglun Li; Xun Wang; Ling Zhao (Biological Trace Element Research, 2019)

Pyrosequencing of nirS gene revealed spatial variation of denitrifying bacterial assemblages in response to wetland desertification at Tibet plateau - Yun-fu Gu; Ting Liu; Yan Bai; Quan-ju Xiang; Xiao-ping Zhang; Qiang Chen (Journal of Mountain Science, 2019)

Epidemiological trends and virological traits of hepatitis B virus infection in pregnant women and neonates - Ting-Ting Peng; Qiu-E Cai; Min Yang; Shao-Ping Chen; Feng Chen; Miao Wang; Ling Peng; Gary Wong; Chen-Guang Shen; Wen-Bing Cheng; Sai-Yun Liu; Ya-Bai Peng; et al. (Archives of Virology, 2019)

Inhibition of thymocyte autophagy-associated CD4+T thymopoiesis is involved in asthma susceptibility in mice exposed to caffeine prenatally - Han-xiao Liu; Hui-yi Yan; Wen Qu; Xiao Wen; Li-fang Hou; Wen-hao Zhao; Jie Ping (Archives of Toxicology, 2019)