lncRNA UCA1 inhibits mitochondrial dysfunction of skeletal muscle in type 2 diabetes mellitus by sequestering miR-143-3p to release FGF21 - Sha Huang; Kai Wu; Bingfa Li; Yuan Liu (Cell and Tissue Research, 2023)

Ecological restoration exacerbates the agriculture-induced water crisis in North China Region - Yan Zhou; Jinwei Dong; Yaoping Cui; Meng Zhao; Xinxin Wang; Qiuhong Tang; Yongqiang Zhang; Sha Zhou; Graciela Metternicht; Zhenhua Zou; Geli Zhang; Xiangming Xiao (Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2023)

MUSER and IPS telescopes for solar and space weather observations - Yihua Yan; Wei Wang; Linjie Chen; Fei Liu; Jin Fan; Zhijun Chen; Lihong Geng; Chengming Tan; Suli Ma; Sha Li; Cang Su; Jing Du; et al. (Advances in Space Research, 2023)

Superpixel segmentation integrated feature subset selection for wetland classification over Yellow River Delta - Long Cui; Jiahua Zhang; Zhenjiang Wu; Lan Xun; Xiaopeng Wang; Shichao Zhang; Yun Bai; Sha Zhang; Shanshan Yang; Qi Liu (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2023)

Numerical study of sediment suspension affected by rigid cylinders under unidirectional and combined wave–current flows - Sha Lou; Xiaolan Chen; Shengyu Zhou; Gangfeng Ma; Shuguang Liu; Larisa Dorzhievna Radnaeva; Elena Nikitina; Irina Viktorovna Fedorova (Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023)
Sediment transport modeling for flows with cylinders is very challenging owing to the complicated flow–cylinder–sediment interactions, especially under the combined wave-current flows. In this paper, an improved formulation for incipient sediment suspension considering the effect of cylinder density (i.e., solid volume fraction) is employed to simulate the bottom sediment flux in the flow with cylinders. The proposed model is calibrated and validated using laboratory measurements under unidirectional and combined wave-current flows in previous studies. It is proved that the effects of cylinders on sediment suspension can be accounted for through a modified critical Shields number, and the proposed model is capable of simulating sediment suspension under both unidirectional and combined wave–current flows reasonably well with the average the coefficients of determination and model skills greater than 0.8 and 0.64.

Contribution of the TGFβ signaling pathway to pigmentation in sea cucumber (Apostichopus japonicus) - Linlin Yao; Bin Zhao; Qi Wang; Xuyang Jiang; Sha Han; Wei Hu; Chenglin Li (Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023)
Pigmentation mediated by the transforming growth factor β (TGFβ) signaling pathway is a key trait for understanding environmental adaptability and species stability. In this study, TGFβ signaling pathway members and their expression patterns in different color morphs of the sea cucumber Apostichopus japonicus were evaluated. Using a bioinformatics approach, 22 protein sequences of TGFβ signaling pathway members in A. japonicus were classified, including 14 that were identified for the first time in the species, including 7 ligands, 6 receptors, and 1 R-Smad. We further evaluated mRNA expression data for different color morphs and pigmentation periods. These results support the hypothesis that both subfamilies of the TGFβ superfamily, i.e., the TGFβ/activin/Nodal and BMP/GDF/AMH subfamilies, are involved in the regulation of pigmentation in A. japonicus . The former subfamily was complete and contributes to the different color morphs. The BMP/GDF/AMH subfamily was incomplete. BMP2/4-induced differentiation of white adipocytes was regulated by the BMP2/4–ACVR2A–Smad1 signaling pathway. These findings provide insight into the TGFβ family in early chordate evolution as well as the molecular basis of color variation in an economically valuable species.

Effects of diflubenzuron on shrimp (Neocaridina palmata) in freshwater systems dominated by submerged plant (Ceratophyllum demersum) - Daoshuai Huang; Shaonan Li; Yu Lu; Meng Sha; Jiaxin Li (Chemosphere, 2023)

A self-circulating electro-fenton-like process over Fe3O4–CaO2 cathode for highly efficient degradation of levofloxacin - Yangyang Bai; Xiaoqin Sun; Yuan Dang; Sha Yu; Jun-Jie Zhu; Yuanzhen Zhou (Chemosphere, 2023)

Nonmonotonic effect of CuO nanoparticles on medium-chain carboxylates production from waste activated sludge - Chao Liu; Haiqing Wang; Muhammad Usman; Mengyuan Ji; Jun Sha; Zhenda Liang; Lishan Zhu; Li Zhou; Bing Yan (Water Research, 2023)

Insights into leachate reduction in landfill with different ventilation Rates: Balance of Water, waste physicochemical Properties, and microbial community - Pan Jin; Shijie Bian; Wenbo Yu; Shuai Guo; Changfei Lai; Lixin Wu; Hongyang Zhao; Keke Xiao; Sha Liang; Shushan Yuan; Liang Huang; Songlin Wang; et al. (Waste Management, 2023)

Seismic performance of precast concrete frame with energy dissipative cladding panel system: Half-scale test and numerical analysis - Huiling Sha; Xun Chong; Linlin Xie; Pu Huo; Tengsheng Yue; Jianpeng Wei (Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 2023)

Maternal exposure to 4-vinylcyclohexene diepoxide during pregnancy induces subfertility and birth defects of offspring in mice - Wei Song; Ang Li; Qian-Qian Sha; Shao-Yuan Liu; Yong Zhou; Chang-Yin Zhou; Xue Zhang; Xiao-Zhen Li; Jia-Xin Jiang; Fei Li; Chao Li; Heide Schatten; et al. (Science of The Total Environment, 2023)

Leverage of resource efficiency over environmental emissions: Case of a megacity in China - Jian Sun; Tao Wang; Sha Lu; Xiaofeng Gao; Huanzheng Du (Science of The Total Environment, 2023)

Global assessment of nature’s contributions to people - Yanxu Liu; Bojie Fu; Shuai Wang; Jonathan R. Rhodes; Yan Li; Wenwu Zhao; Changjia Li; Sha Zhou; Chenxu Wang (Science Bulletin, 2023)

Genomic analysis of Marinimicrobium sp. C6131 reveals its genetic potential involved in chitin metabolism - Yan-Ru Dang; Xiao-Yu Zhang; Sha-Sha Liu; Ping-Yi Li; Xue-Bing Ren; Qi-Long Qin (Marine Genomics, 2023)

Modeling the impacts of the energy closure degree over the arid and semiarid areas of China on the East Asian regional climate - Sha Lu; Weixuan Shi (Journal of Hydrology, 2023)

Pivotal biological processes and proteins for selenite reduction and methylation in Ganoderma lucidum - Mengmeng Xu; Song Zhu; Qiong Wang; Lei Chen; Youran Li; Sha Xu; Zhenghua Gu; Guiyang Shi; Zhongyang Ding (Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2023)

Generation of high-valent iron-oxo porphyrin cation radicals on hemin loaded carbon nanotubes for efficient degradation of sulfathiazole - Sijing Chen; Zhen Li; Longsheng Wu; Lu Liu; Jingping Hu; Huijie Hou; Sha Liang; Jiakuan Yang (Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2023)

Effect of phenol formaldehyde-associated microplastics on soil microbial community, assembly, and functioning - Hu Li; Qiu-Ping Luo; Sha Zhao; Yan-Yan Zhou; Fu-Yi Huang; Xiao-Ru Yang; Jian-Qiang Su (Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2023)

Heterogeneous driving effects of middle-class expansion on carbon emissions in various regions of China: A structural path decomposition analysis - Ju Wang; Liyuan Wei; Jian Zuo; Sha Peng; Shuxia Yu; Ling Wang; Chang Chen; Zhen Wang (Journal of Cleaner Production, 2023)

Complex inhibitions on anaerobic degradation of monosodium glutamate in wastewater under low COD/sulfate ratios - Hong Chen; Zhen Luo; Yanxiao Wei; Zhenyu Deng; Enzhe Yang; Hong Wang; Jing Chen; Eli Hendrik Sanjaya; Zhihua Liu; Sha Wu (International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation, 2023)

Design and synthesis of SO3H-functionalized acidic ionic liquids for catalytic conversion of wheat straw to ethyl levulinate - Chao Li; Jian Zhao; Huixin Tong; Xiaodong Fan; Xinjie Fang; Yuli Sha; Zhizhong Sun; Wenyi Chu (Fuel, 2023)

Secondary vegetation succession on the Loess Plateau altered the interaction between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and nitrogen-fixing bacteria - Meng Liang; Yang Wu; Qifan Zhao; Yaokun Jiang; Wei Sun; Guobin Liu; Lihui Ma; Sha Xue (Forest Ecology and Management, 2023)

Natural bioactive flavonoids as promising agents in alleviating exercise-induced fatigue - Yuzhou Liu; Xiaofei Shen; Mengxiang Sha; Zige Feng; Yue Liu (Food Bioscience, 2023)

Nitrogen responsiveness of leaf growth, radiation use efficiency and grain yield of maize (Zea mays L.) in Northeast China - Zheng Liu; Jia Gao; Siyu Zhao; Ye Sha; Yiwen Huang; Zhanhong Hao; Lihua Ke; Fanjun Chen; Lixing Yuan; Guohua Mi (Field Crops Research, 2023)

Preparation of phosphorus-modified biochar for the immobilization of heavy metals in typical lead-zinc contaminated mining soil: Performance, mechanism and microbial community - Haichao Sha; Jie Li; Liangqin Wang; Haidu Nong; Guohua Wang; Taotao Zeng (Environmental Research, 2023)

Impacts of extreme weather events on terrestrial carbon and nitrogen cycling: A global meta-analysis - Qing Qu; Hongwei Xu; Zemin Ai; Minggang Wang; Guoliang Wang; Guobin Liu; Violette Geissen; Coen J. Ritsema; Sha Xue (Environmental Pollution, 2023)

Electrically conductive yet insulating aramid nanofiber Janus films via gel–gel assembling for flexible motion sensing and Joule heating - Shanshan Chen; Zhijian Li; Jizhen Huang; Lizheng Sha; Zhaoqing Lu (Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023)

Magnetic hydrothermal carbonaceous nanospheres bonded cell membranes as a stable and reusable platform for discovering natural bioactive components - Sha Liu; Pingyu Ye; Zhenqi Sang; Wan Gong; Peng Sun; Shan Tao; Qiaoyan Zhang; Lupin Qin; Qiming Zhao (Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023)

Investigation into biochar supported Fe-Mo carbides catalysts for efficient biomass gasification tar cracking - Shuping Zhang; Jiaxing Wang; Lei Ye; Sha Li; Yinhai Su; Huiyan Zhang (Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023)

Thiol-ene eugenol polymer networks with chemical Degradation, thermal degradation and biodegradability - Puyou Jia; Meghan E. Lamm; Ye Sha; Yufeng Ma; Leman Buzoglu Kurnaz; Yonghong Zhou (Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023)

Tumor microenvironment activated nanoreactors for chemiluminescence imaging-guided simultaneous elimination of breast tumors and tumor-resident intracellular pathogens - Xinxin Li; Ting Wu; Zefan Zhang; Sha Liu; Hongmei Cui; Zhongxiong Fan; Baodui Wang; Jun Hai (Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023)

Effect of Phanerochaete chrysosporium inoculation on manganese passivation and microbial community succession during electrical manganese residue composting - Lan Gao; Danlian Huang; Min Cheng; Ming Yan; Zhen Wei; Ruihao Xiao; Li Du; Guangfu Wang; Ruijin Li; Sha Chen; Lingshi Yin (Bioresource Technology, 2023)

Risk assessment of 3-monochloropropane-1,2-diol esters through dietary exposure from edible oils for the Zhejiang population in China by Monte Carlo simulation - Liqun Zhang; Pinggu Wu; Xiaoling Xiang; Huali He; Sha Yu (Food Additives & Contaminants: Part A, 2023)

Isolation, characterization and functional validation of a soybean transcription factor, GmDof4.2 improves drought tolerance in transgenic tobacco - Ying Zhai; Jiongxin Chen; Jiaqi He; Jun Zhang; Wei Sha; Haiwei Yu; Yan Zhao; Tianyi Ma; Tianguo Sun; Meijuan Zhang; Shanshan Li (Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC), 2023)

Discovery of new PKN2 inhibitory chemotypes via QSAR-guided selection of docking-based pharmacophores - Mahmoud A. Al-Sha’er; Haneen A. Basheer; Mutasem O. Taha (Molecular Diversity, 2023)

The detection of major clades and new species of Mallocybe (Inocybaceae, Agaricales) from China with elongate cheilocystidia - Jian-Hua Hu; Wen-Jie Yu; Lun-Sha Deng; Yu-Guang Fan; Tolgor Bau; Li-Ping Tang; Wen-Fei Lin; Chun-Ying Deng (Mycological Progress, 2023)

Evaluation of antibacterial, antioxidant, cytotoxic, and acetylcholinesterase inhibition activities of novel [1,4] benzoxazepines fused to heterocyclic systems with a molecular modeling study - Ahmed Al-Mustafa; Wael Al-Zereini; Muhammad Ashram; Mahmoud A. Al-Sha’er (Medicinal Chemistry Research, 2023)

Evaluation of data pre-processing and regression models for precise estimation of soil organic carbon using Vis–NIR spectroscopy - Yaxin Wang; Sha Yang; Xiaobin Yan; Chenbo Yang; Meichen Feng; Lujie Xiao; Xiaoyan Song; Meijun Zhang; Fahad Shafiq; Hui Sun; Guangxin Li; Wude Yang; et al. (Journal of Soils and Sediments, 2023)

Early Permian bimodal magmatism and tectonic evolution of the easternmost Paleo-Asian orogenic system - Xiaopeng Yang; Shichao Li; Weifeng Luo; Kunpeng Jiang; Zheren Zhao; Hongtao Wang; Hongyu Wei; Sha Dou; Jinfeng Jia; Zuoting Ren (International Journal of Earth Sciences, 2023)

Staphylococcal protein A modulates inflammation by inducing interferon signaling in human nasal epithelial cells - Hua Hu; Sha Liu; Karen Hon; Alkis J. Psaltis; Peter John Wormald; Sarah Vreugde (Inflammation Research, 2023)
Objective and design Staphylococcus aureus ( S. aureus ) is one of the leading causes of human respiratory tract infections. The function of Staphylococcal protein A (SpA), expressed on the S. aureus bacterial membrane and released in the environment, on human nasal epithelial cells (HNECs) have not been fully elucidated. In this study, we tested the SpA expression in S. aureus from chronic rhinosinusitis patients and investigated the effects of SpA on HNECs inflammation through Interferon Gamma Receptor 1(IFNGR1)/phosphorylated Janus Kinase 2 (p-JAK2) pathway. Methods RNA profiling was performed to investigate inflammatory activation in a S. aureus chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) mouse model. SpA release by S. aureus clinical isolates was determined using ELISA. The effect of purified SpA and SpA enriched conditioned media from S. aureus clinical isolates on HNECs cytotoxicity, apoptosis and release of inflammatory cytokines was evaluated using lactate dehydrogenase assays, and flow cytometry. SpA dependent IFNGR1 and p-JAK2 expression were assessed by qPCR, immunofluorescence and western blot in HNECs. Results 49 genes were significantly induced in S. aureus CRS mice indicative of activation of interferon signaling. SpA release was significantly higher in S. aureus clinical isolates from chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP) patients. Purified SpA significantly increased IFNGR1 mRNA and protein expression in HNECs. SpA induced cytotoxic effects and induced the release of Interleukin-6 (IL-6) and IL-8 in an IFNGR1 dependent way. Conclusion SpA induces interferon signaling through activation of the IFNGR1-JAK-2 pathway, which provides an understanding of how S. aureus SpA affects the inflammatory process in the upper airways.

Environmental assessment of casual dining restaurants in urban and suburban areas of peninsular Malaysia during the COVID-19 pandemic - Nur Salsabiela Md Sha’ari; Ummi Syahidah Sazali; Ahmad Taufiq Zolkipli; Roberto Quiros Vargas; Farah Ayuni Shafie (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2023)

Evaluation of Copper Levels in Dental Calculus of OSF Patients with Chewing Dried Areca-Nut Quids in Hunan Province of Mainland China - Xi-Fan He; Hui Wang; Ye Tian; Te Zhang; Zhi-Peng Qiu; Xiao-Jiao Cui; Jing-Sha Zhou; Xin-Lan Yan; Yi-Wei Wu; Yi-Sha Pan; Yang-Bo Ning; Lin Chen; et al. (Biological Trace Element Research, 2023)

Variations in the NSP4 gene of the type 2 porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus isolated in China from 1996 to 2021 - Huiyang Sha; Hang Zhang; Qin Luo; Yajie Zheng; Qingge Zhu; Nina Wang; Limei Qin; Huawei Li; Liangzong Huang; Mengmeng Zhao (Virus Genes, 2023)

Retraction Note: Cancer-derived exosomal miR-221-3p promotes angiogenesis by targeting THBS2 in cervical squamous cell carcinoma - Xiang-Guang Wu; Chen-Fei Zhou; Yan-Mei Zhang; Rui-Ming Yan; Wen-Fei Wei; Xiao-Jing Chen; Hong-Yan Yi; Luo-Jiao Liang; Liang-sheng Fan; Li Liang; Sha Wu; Wei Wang (Angiogenesis, 2023)

Correction: A novel lymphatic pattern promotes metastasis of cervical cancer in a hypoxic tumour-associated macrophage-dependent manner - Xiao-Jing Chen; Wen-Fei Wei; Zi-Ci Wang; Nisha Wang; Chu-Hong Guo; Chen-Fei Zhou; Luo-Jiao Liang; Sha Wu; Li Liang; Wei Wang (Angiogenesis, 2023)

Contribution of Tibetan Plateau ecosystems to local and remote precipitation through moisture recycling - Yan Li; Ru Xu; Kun Yang; Yanxu Liu; Shuai Wang; Sha Zhou; Zhao Yang; Xiaoming Feng; Chunyang He; Zhengjie Xu; Wenwu Zhao (Global Change Biology, 2023)
The ecosystems of the Tibetan Plateau (TP) provide multiple important ecosystem services that benefit both local populations and those beyond, such as through climate regulation services on precipitation for East Asia and China. However, the precipitation regulation service of the TP ecosystems for supplying moisture and maintaining precipitation is yet to be evaluated. In this study, we used the moisture recycling framework and a moisture tracking model to quantify the precipitation regulation services of TP ecosystems for their contribution to precipitation. We found TP ecosystems contributed substantially to local and downwind precipitation, with a contribution of 221 mm/year for the TP and neighboring areas through evapotranspiration (ET) (104 mm/year through transpiration), declined to

Impacts of maize hybrids with different nitrogen use efficiency on root‐associated microbiota based on distinct rhizosphere soil metabolites - Keke Li; La Chen; Wenjun Shi; Conghui Hu; Ye Sha; Guozhong Feng; Entao Wang; Wenxin Chen; Xinhua Sui; Guohua Mi (Environmental Microbiology, 2023)
Plant genotypes shape root‐associated microbiota that affect plant nutrient acquisition and productivity. It is unclear how maize hybrids modify root‐associated microbiota and their functions and relationship with nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) by regulating rhizosphere soil metabolites. Here, two N‐efficient (NE) (ZD958, DMY3) and two N‐inefficient (NIE) maize hybrids (YD9953, LY99) were used to investigate this issue under low N (60 kg N ha −1 , LN) and high N (180 kg N ha −1 , HN) field conditions. NE hybrids had higher yield than NIE hybrids under LN but not HN. NE and NIE hybrids recruited only distinct root‐associated bacterial microbiota in LN. The bacterial network stability was stronger in NE than NIE hybrids. Compared with NIE hybrids, NE hybrids recruited more bacterial taxa that have been described as plant growth‐promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR), and less related to denitrification and N competition; this resulted in low N 2 O emission and high rhizosphere NO 3 − ‐N accumulation. NE and NIE hybrids had distinct rhizosphere soil metabolite patterns, and their specific metabolites were closely related to microbiota and specific genera under LN. Our findings reveal the relationships among plant NUE, rhizosphere soil metabolites, root‐associated microbiota, and soil nutrient cycling, and this information is informative for breeding NE crops.

Geochronology and geochemistry of the Late Triassic intrusive rocks in the Liaodong Peninsula, NE China: Petrogenesis and implications for early Mesozoic tectonic evolution - Peng Zhang; Yan Zhao; Linlin Kou; Deming Sha (International Geology Review, 2023)

Combined effect of Cu- and ZnO- NPs on antibiotic resistance genes in an estuarine water - Yu-ru Chen; Rong-rong Sha; Xiao-li Sun; Xing-pan Guo; Yi Yang (Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023)
Most studies of whether and how nanoparticles (NPs) affect antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) focus on testing single NPs type. In this study, we determined the combined effect of Cu- and ZnO- NPs in the water samples collected from the Yangtze River Estuary and found the effect differs greatly from that produced by individual NPs. The results showed that the Cu- and ZnO- NPs co-exposure resulted in an enrichment of ARGs, whereas individual Cu- and ZnO- NPs exposure decreased the abundance of ARGs. Furthermore, the co-exposure of Cu- and ZnO- NPs induced obvious changes in the microbial communities compared to the control communities. Redundancy analysis suggested that the microbial community contributed the most (43.5%) to the ARG profiles, followed by dissolved metal ions (25.7%), MRGs, (19.4%), and MGEs (4.4%). Network analysis found several potential hosts (such as Mycobacterium and Escherichia coli ) and implied the extent of the risk of ARG transmission into various environmental niches by these common microbes.

Sedimentation of cohesive sediments at the subtidal flat affected by wind wave in high turbidity estuary - Qi Shen; Qin Zhu; Shuguang Liu; Sha Lou; Hualin Wu; Zhenchang Zhu; Bin Xu; Rui Yuan (Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023)
Sedimentation is an important mechanism to mitigate the shrinking of tidal flat and to restore its ecological function by means of sand or mud nourishment. To explore the sedimentation of cohesive sediments, a seabed tripod observation system was deployed at the subtidal region of the Hengsha Shoal adjacent to the turbidity maximum zone of the Yangtze Estuary for 11 days. The results showed that the fine sediment with the median grain size around 8 mm occupied the whole water column. The seabed was in relative equilibrium state with the fluctuation of bed level smaller than 16 mm during the moderate wind condition while the seabed experienced a rapid erosion of 38mm and a successive intensive accretion of 68mm during the process of wind wave and swell. The bottom hydrodynamic at 0.3mab during the bed accretion was stronger than that during the bed erosion. The deposition process of cohesive sediments can be better described by the simultaneous deposition paradigm than that by the exclusive deposition paradigm according to the direct data-model comparison of the bed level changes, especially during the impact of fluid mud. Three possible reasons for the better performance of the simultaneous deposition paradigm were proposed. The first possibility is that the fine suspended sediments do maintain a continuous contact with the sediment bed since the direct bed level changes during our observation period has been well reproduced by the simultaneous deposition paradigm. The second possibility is the SSC-induced turbulence damping which facilitates the fine sediment settling in the form of cohesive sediment flocs, indicating the settling of sediments can’t be judged by the critical shear stress for deposition just based on the single particle grain size. The last possibility is the fluid mud-induced overestimated bed shear stress by using turbulent velocity fluctuation above the fluid mud-water interface, which produces excess sediment erosion waiting to be compensated by the simultaneous deposition paradigm. For practical modeling purposes, modeling under the simultaneous deposition paradigm can give satisfactory results for the sedimentation of cohesive sediment especially during the impact of wave or swell.

Polystyrene as a vector of heavy metals in hard clam Meretrix lusoria under various salinities - Beta Susanto Barus; Zuhao Zhu; Chih-Yang Cheuch; Kai Chen; Jun Wang; Minggang Cai; Sha-Yen Cheng; Huihua Wei (Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023)
Microplastics and heavy metals are the two main contaminants that are often found in aquatic environments and can lead to major issues for aquatic organisms. Polystyrene (PS) is a type of microplastic that is commonly found in aquatic environments. Hard clams are one of the organisms that are often used as a bioindicator of water pollution, and they can live in a certain salinity range. The objective of this study is to investigate the potential of PS particles as heavy metal vectors in M. lusoria influenced by differences in salinity. The result showed that the highest increase in concentrations of all heavy metals in hard clams was found in those placed at higher salinities. Hard clams that were placed at higher salinity required more water, allowing more PS particles to enter the clams’ bodies. Hard clams placed at salinity 30‰ always gathered significantly more PS particles ( p <0.05) than hard clams placed at the other two salinities (20 and 25‰). This is also corroborated by water depletion at a salinity of 30‰, which is significantly higher ( p <0.05) than the other two salinities. Our findings indicate that PS particles have the potential as vectors for heavy metal pollutants in hard clams in environments of varying salinity.

Elucidation of aniline adsorption–desorption mechanism on various organo–mineral complexes - Yan Ma; Xinyi Wu; Tong Wang; Shengkun Zhou; Biying Cui; Haoqun Sha; Bowen Lv (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2023)

Iron-calcium reinforced solidification of arsenic alkali residue in geopolymer composite: Wide pH stabilization and its mechanism - Yingfei Sun; Pan Zhang; Zhen Li; Jing Chen; Yan Ke; Jingping Hu; Bingchuan Liu; Jiakuan Yang; Sha Liang; Xintai Su; Huijie Hou (Chemosphere, 2023)

Study on sex-linked region and sex determination candidate gene using a high-quality genome assembly in yellow drum - Sha Sun; Chaowei Song; Fang Han; Qiwei He; Jieping Liu; Sen Zhang; Wei Han; Kun Ye; Zhaofang Han; Zhiyong Wang; Wanbo Li (Aquaculture, 2023)

A critical review on microbial ecology in the novel biological nitrogen removal process: Dynamic balance of complex functional microbes for nitrogen removal - Hong Chen; Ke Liu; Enzhe Yang; Jing Chen; Yanling Gu; Sha Wu; Min Yang; Hong Wang; Dongbo Wang; Hailong Li (Science of The Total Environment, 2023)

Mapping Chinese annual gross primary productivity with eddy covariance measurements and machine learning - Xian-Jin Zhu; Gui-Rui Yu; Zhi Chen; Wei-Kang Zhang; Lang Han; Qiu-Feng Wang; Shi-Ping Chen; Shao-Min Liu; Hui-Min Wang; Jun-Hua Yan; Jun-Lei Tan; Fa-Wei Zhang; et al. (Science of The Total Environment, 2023)

Role played by the physical structure of carbon anode materials in MFC biosensor for BOD measurement - Chuan Wang; Lanyan Yin; Sha Wang; Xiaojun Jin; Jingxin Yang; Hong Liu (Science of The Total Environment, 2023)

Eocene to Miocene Charophytes from the Qaidam Basin on the northern Tibetan Plateau and its calibration to the Geomagnetic Polarity Time Scale - Yi Xing; Bowen Song; Ting Li; Sha Li; Kui Yan; Qifei Wang; Haichun Zhang; Xiaoqiao Wan (Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 2023)

Stilbenes with potent cytotoxicity from the seedcases of Paeonia suffruticosa Andrews - Meng-Yue Yang; Zhao-Xiang Shao; Yue-Tong Wang; Yong-Lian Hou; Ding-Kang Zhu; Sha Chen; Ya-Hui Zhang; Fei Cao; Yong-Kui Jing; Bin Lin; Zhan-Lin Li; Da-Hong Li; et al. (Phytochemistry, 2023)

Does labour migration necessarily promote farmers' land transfer-in?—Empirical evidence from China's rural panel data - Kai Huang; Sha Cao; Chen Qing; Dingde Xu; Shaoquan Liu (Journal of Rural Studies, 2023)

Pollution characteristics of environmental persistent free radicals (EPFRs) and their contribution to oxidation potential in road dust in a large city in northwest China - Hao Li; Qingcai Chen; Chao Wang; Ruihe Wang; Tong Sha; Xiqi Yang; Dyussenova Ainur (Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2023)

VOC emission caps constrained by air quality targets based on response surface model: A case study in the Pearl River Delta Region, China - Ya'nan Hu; Bowen Shi; Xin Yuan; Chuanzeng Zheng; Qing'e Sha; Yufan Yu; Zhijiong Huang; Junyu Zheng (Journal of Environmental Sciences, 2023)

Fine particulate pollution driven by nitrate in the moisture urban atmospheric environment in the Pearl River Delta region of south China - Jun Tao; Junjun Huang; Guojian Bian; Leiming Zhang; Zhen Zhou; Zhisheng Zhang; Jiawei Li; Yucong Miao; Ziyang Yuan; Qinge Sha; Linhai Xiao; Boguang Wang (Journal of Environmental Management, 2023)

Evolution of household carbon emissions and their drivers from both income and consumption perspectives in China during 2010–2017 - Sha Peng; Xiao Wang; Qian Du; Kerong Wu; Tongtong Lv; Zheng Tang; Liyuan Wei; Jinjun Xue; Zhen Wang (Journal of Environmental Management, 2023)

Experimental investigation on piston offset and performance of helium valved linear compressor with an external gas bypass - Qi Huang; Lei Ding; Xinquan Sha; Shaoshuai Liu; Zhenhua Jiang; Deping Dong (International Journal of Refrigeration, 2023)

Technical progress and perspective on the thermochemical conversion of kitchen waste and relevant applications: A comprehensive review - Xuesong Liu; Jun Shen; Yun Guo; Sha Wang; Bin Chen; Lei Luo; Hai Zhang (Fuel, 2023)

Identification of the maturity of acacia honey by an endogenous oligosaccharide: A preliminary study - Sha Yan; Wenqian Wang; Wen Zhao; Wenli Tian; Xuan Wang; Liming Wu; Xiaofeng Xue (Food Chemistry, 2023)

Traceability and identification of fish gelatin from seven cyprinid fishes by high performance liquid chromatography and high-resolution mass spectrometry - Xiao-Mei Sha; Wen-Li Jiang; Zi-Zi Hu; Li-Jun Zhang; Zuo-Hua Xie; Ling Lu; Tao Yuan; Zong-Cai Tu (Food Chemistry, 2023)

A sensitive and quantitative immunochromatographic assay for simultaneous detection of three stimulant laxatives in slimming food - Sha Chen; Tian Guan; Zhenjie Qian; Qiqi Quan; Jin Wang; Xiangmei Li; Shaozong Wu; Yiyong Yan; Xiaojun Yao; Shiwei Zhang; Hongtao Lei (Food Chemistry, 2023)

Interfacial behavior of cyclodextrins at the oil-water interface of Pickering emulsion - Caiyun Cheng; Chao Yuan; Bo Cui; Lu Lu; Jianpeng Li; Haojie Sha (Food Hydrocolloids, 2023)

Effect of Hofmeister series anions on freeze-thaw stability of emulsion stabilized with whey protein isolates - Hao Lai; Qian Shen; Fuchao Zhan; Sha Jiang; Haomin Sui; Yijie Chen; Bin Li; Jing Li (Food Hydrocolloids, 2023)

Controlled design of Na–P1 zeolite/ porous carbon composites from coal gasification fine slag for high-performance adsorbent - Rui Shu; Qixia Qiao; Feiqiang Guo; Kaiming Dong; Sha Liu; Liya Xu; Yonghui Bai; Nan Zhou (Environmental Research, 2023)

FeCl3 and Fe2(SO4)3 differentially reduce Cd uptake and accumulation in Polish wheat (Triticum polonicum L.) seedlings by exporting Cd from roots and limiting Cd binding in the root cell walls - Qin Yao; Weiping Li; Ying Liu; Yiran Cheng; Xue Xiao; Dan Long; Jian Zeng; Dandan Wu; Lina Sha; Xing Fan; Houyang Kang; Haiqin Zhang; et al. (Environmental Pollution, 2023)

Using Compound Specific Isotope Analysis to decipher the 1,2,3-trichloropropane-to-Allyl chloride transformation by groundwater microbial communities - Min Zhang; Zhuo Ning; Caijuan Guo; Chan Shi; Sha Zhang; Yizhi Sheng; Zongyu Chen (Environmental Pollution, 2023)

Fluid-structure interaction analysis of oblique ship-bridge collisions - Xudong Ye; Wei Fan; Yanyan Sha; Xugang Hua; Qinglin Wu; Yongli Ren (Engineering Structures, 2023)

In-situ growth of Ni(OH)2 nanoplates on highly oxidized graphene for all-solid-state flexible supercapacitors - Xueli Wu; Fan Zeng; Xianyin Song; Xuefeng Sha; Hongtao Zhou; Xingang Zhang; Zhi Liu; Minghao Yu; Changzhong Jiang (Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023)

A biomass-based bilayer aerogel for efficient solar-driven steam production and electricity generation - Lingxuan Bai; Hanxiao Zhang; Rui Lou; Jianzong Li; Mingchao Chi; Jiulong Sha; Xuelian Zhou (Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023)

Evolving a high-performance bio-imaging tool derived from a compact fluorophore as well as creating a reaction-based fluorescent probe for precise determination of Ag+ - Zi Yi Xu; Xiao Hu Wang; Sha Li Huang; Jing Rong Chen; Hong Qun Luo; Nian Bing Li (Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023)

All-Ceramic, compressible and scalable nanofibrous aerogels for subambient daytime radiative cooling - Tao Li; Haoyang Sun; Meng Yang; Chentao Zhang; Sha Lv; Bin Li; Longhao Chen; Dazhi Sun (Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023)

An iron chlorophyll derivative for enhanced degradation of bisphenol A: New insight into the generation mechanism of high-valent iron oxo species - Xiaorong Yang; Peng Zhang; Huijie Hou; Jingping Hu; Lu Liu; Longsheng Wu; Sijing Chen; Keliang Pan; Sha Liang; Shushan Yuan; Jiakuan Yang (Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023)

Identification and haplotype analysis of SiCHLI: a gene for yellow–green seedling as morphological marker to accelerate foxtail millet (Setaria italica) hybrid breeding - Hongkai Liang; Qiang He; Hui Zhang; Hui Zhi; Sha Tang; Hailong Wang; Qiang Meng; Guanqing Jia; Jinhua Chang; Xianmin Diao (Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2023)

Andrographolide ameliorates hepatic steatosis by suppressing FATP2-mediated fatty acid uptake in mice with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease - Li-Sha Ran; Ya-Zeng Wu; Yi-Wen Gan; Hong-Lian Wang; Li-Juan Wu; Chun-Mei Zheng; Yao Ming; Ran Xiong; Yong-Lin Li; Shi-Hang Lei; Xue Wang; Xiao-Qing Lao; et al. (Journal of Natural Medicines, 2023)
Excessive intrahepatocellular lipid accumulation or steatosis is caused by abnormal lipid metabolism and a common character of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), which may progress into cirrhosis and hepatocellular cancer. Andrographolide (Andro) is the primary active ingredient extracted from Andrographis paniculata , showing a protective role against dietary steatosis with the mechanism not fully understood. In this study, we showed that administration of Andro (50, 100, and 200 mg/kg/day for 8 weeks, respectively) attenuated obesity and metabolic syndrome in high-fat diet (HFD)-fed mice with improved glucose tolerance, insulin sensitivity, and reduced hyperinsulinemia, hyperglycemia, and hyperlipidemia. HFD-fed mice presented hepatic steatosis, which was significantly prevented by Andro. In vitro, Andro decreased the intracellular lipid droplets in oleic acid-treated LO2 cells. The selected RT-PCR array revealed a robust expression suppression of the fatty acid transport proteins (FATPs) by Andro treatment. Most importantly, we found that Andro consistently reduced the expression of FATP2 in both the oleic acid-treated LO2 cells and liver tissues of HFD-fed mice. Overexpression of FATP2 abolished the lipid-lowering effect of Andro in oleic acid-treated LO2 cells. Andro treatment also reduced the fatty acid uptake in oleic acid-treated LO2 cells, which was blunted by FATP2 overexpression. Collectively, our findings reveal a novel mechanism underlying the anti-steatosis effect of Andro by suppressing FATP2-mediated fatty acid uptake, suggesting the potential therapeutic application of Andro in the treatment of NAFLD. Graphical abstract

The effect of China’s leading officials’ accountability audit of natural resources policy on provincial agricultural carbon intensities: the mediating role of technological progress - Yunqiang Liu; Deping Ye; Sha Liu; Hongxing Lan (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2023)

Landscape dynamics and human disturbance processes in wetlands in a mining city: a case study in Huaibei, China - Shiyuan Zhou; Jiang Chang; Pingjia Luo; Yuan Kang; Sha Li (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2023)

Responses of aboveground litterfall respiration to unexpected snowfall events in Ailao subtropical forests in Southwest China - Zayar Phyo; Wenjun Zhou; Qinghai Song; Chuansheng Wu; Naishen Liang; Yanyun Yi; Lijuan Chen; Mohd Zeeshan; Sai Tay Zar Myo; Zhiyun Lu; Liqing Sha; Yiping Zhang (Applied Soil Ecology, 2023)

Effect of plant–plant interactions and drought stress on the response of soil nutrient contents, enzyme activities and microbial metabolic limitations - Lie Xiao; Xuxu Min; Guobin Liu; Peng Li; Sha Xue (Applied Soil Ecology, 2023)

Substitution of soybean meal with Clostridium autoethanogenum protein in grass carp (Ctenopharygodon idella) diets: Effects on growth performance, feed utilization, muscle nutritional value and sensory characteristics - Rongrong Xue; Handong Li; Sha Liu; Zechao Hu; Qin Wu; Hong Ji (Animal Feed Science and Technology, 2023)

Mitogenomes provide insights into the phylogeny and evolution of brittle stars (Echinodermata, Ophiuroidea) - Shao'e Sun; Ning Xiao; Zhongli Sha (Zoologica Scripta, 2023)
Ophiuroidea is the most speciose of all classes of Echinoderma. It is an important component in benthic ecosystems, occurring in almost all ecological niches of modern seas. To date, the phylogeny and complete evolutionary history of the ophiuroids have not yet been fully resolved. In this study, we sequenced the complete mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes) of Ophiothrix ( Ophiothrix ) exigua and two deep‐sea species Histampica sp. CS049 and Ophioplinthaca sp. M5261. These two deep‐sea ophiuroids displayed reversed strand‐compositional bias and rearranged gene orders. Thirteen distinct patterns of mitochondrial gene order among ophiuroid mitogenomes were detected, with two gene order newly found in Ophiuroidea. Our data supported the gene order found in all sampled Ophiuridae as the most likely ancestral order of all Ophiuroidea. To improve phylogenetic accuracy based on nucleotide differences, two different criteria were used for the analyses: (i) nucleotide sequence from all codon positions (PCG 123 ); (ii) the NTE method (“Neutral Transitions Excluded”) for ameliorating the misleading effects of a reverse strand bias in the data. The two methods confirmed the polyphyly of the orders Ophiacanthida and Amphilepidia. At family and genus level, Ophiuridae, Ophionotus and Ophioplinthus were not monophyletic. The most notable exception was that the NTE phylogeny showed low variation of branch length. NTE dataset generated younger age for most lower‐level nodes than that from PCG123 dataset. All analyses suggested that the ophiuroids radiation occurred around the Permian–Triassic mass extinction event, and the divergence time of the deep‐sea lineages was during the Cretaceous.

Toward potential area identification for land consolidation and ecological restoration: an integrated framework via land use optimization - Runjia Yang; Sha Chen; Yanmei Ye (Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2022)

Nitric oxide and Nitrous oxide accumulation, oxygen production during nitrite denitrification in an anaerobic/anoxic sequencing batch reactor: exploring characteristics and mechanism - Sha Wang; Bin Li; Fang Li (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

Health risk assessment of heavy metal exposure through vegetable consumption around a phosphorus chemical plant in the Kaiyang karst area, southwestern China - Ziyu Guo; Hengmei Dai; Min Wang; Sha Pan (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

Correction to: Can China’s carbon trading policy improve the profitability of polluting firms: a retest of Porter’s hypothesis - Xiaosong Ren; Qian Ma; Sha Sun; Xiaohang Ren; Guang Yan (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

Three new species and two new records of Echinothuriidae (Echinodermata: Echinothurioida) from seamounts in the Northwest Pacific Ocean: Diversity, phylogeny and biogeography of deep-sea echinothuriids - Wanrui Zheng; Shao’e Sun; Zhongli Sha; Ning Xiao (Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022)
The soft sea urchins Echinothuriidae Thomson, 1872, constitute the most commonly encountered sea urchins in the bathyal environment. The echinothuriids are common and frequently abundant in the Indo-Pacific, but the species diversity is still not completely known yet. Our examination of echinoid specimens collected from seven seamounts in the Northwest Pacific Ocean revealed three new species and two new records. The three new species are described as Araeosoma cucullatum sp. nov., Araeosoma polyporum sp. nov., and Hygrosoma involucrum sp. nov. The two new records included two species from the genus Araeosoma . They are distinguished from each other and from congeners by the following characteristics: coloring, ambulacrum, interambulacrum, apical system, spines, and pedicellariae. The identities of the five species are well supported by genetic distance and phylogenetic analyses based on the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit I ( COI ) and 16S rRNA genes. Based on the distribution data, we explored the distribution patterns of Araeosoma , Calveriosoma , Hapalosoma , Sperosoma , Tromikosoma , and Hygrosoma , the six echinothuriid genera occurring in deep sea, and delineated 10 isolated deep-sea biogeographic provinces all over the world. The Western Pacific harbors higher species diversity of deep-sea echinothuriids than other sea areas worldwide, indicating that the Western Pacific may play an important part in the dispersal and speciation of deep-sea echinothuriids.

Can China’s carbon trading policy improve the profitability of polluting firms: a retest of Porter’s hypothesis - Xiaosong Ren; Qian Ma; Sha Sun; Xiaohang Ren; Guang Yan (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

A two-step downscaling method for high-scale super-resolution of daily temperature — a case study of Wei River Basin, China - Xue Li; Yingyin Zhou; Man Zhang; Jian Sha; Zhong-Liang Wang (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

Reconstitution of Fusion-Competent Human Placental Fusogen Syncytin-2 - Lu Xu; Sha Sun (The Journal of Membrane Biology, 2022)

An Integrated Framework for Data-Driven Mineral Prospectivity Mapping Using Bagging-Based Positive-Unlabeled Learning and Bayesian Cost-Sensitive Logistic Regression - Zhiqiang Zhang; Gongwen Wang; Emmanuel John M. Carranza; Junjie Fan; Xinxing Liu; Xiang Zhang; Yulong Dong; XiaoPeng Chang; Deming Sha (Natural Resources Research, 2022)

Network pharmacological investigation into the mechanism of Kaixinsan powder for the treatment of depression - Li-Jing Du; Xin-Ning Zhang; Sha-Sha Li; Yuan-Fang Sun; Hui-Zi Jin; Shi-Kai Yan; Chuan-Gang Han (Metabolic Brain Disease, 2022)

Soil biochemical index-based assessment of the effect of drought stress on the rhizosphere soil quality in three typical grass species in the Loess Plateau, China - Lie Xiao; Meng Zhao; Guobin Liu; Peng Li; Fangyuan Liu; Sha Xue (Journal of Soils and Sediments, 2022)

Effect of empirical antifungal treatment on mortality in non-neutropenic critically ill patients: a propensity-matched retrospective cohort study - Yue Tang; Wenjing Hu; Shuangyan Jiang; Maoyu Xie; Wenying Zhu; Lin Zhang; Jing Sha; Tengfei Wang; Min Ding; Juan Zeng; Jinjiao Jiang (European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, 2022)

Remote sensing strategies to monitoring land use maps with AVHRR and MODIS data over the South Asia regions - Shahzad Ali; Huang An Qi; Malak Henchiri; Zhang Sha; Fahim Ullah Khan; Muhammad Sajid; Jiahua Zhang (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

Long-term warming does not affect soil ecoenzyme activity and original microbial nutrient limitation on the Qinghai—Tibet Plateau - Yuanze Li; Huakun Zhou; Wenjing Chen; Yang Wu; LeiLei Qiao; ZiRan Yan; GuoBin Liu; Sha Xue (Soil Ecology Letters, 2022)

Effects of nitrogen addition on plant-soil-microbe stoichiometry characteristics of different functional group species in Bothriochloa ischemum community - ZiWen Zhao; YanLi Qin; Yang Wu; WenJing Chen; Sha Xue; GuoBin Liu (Soil Ecology Letters, 2022)

Spatial and diel variations of the prokaryotic community in the Phaeocystis globosa blooms area of Beibu Gulf, China - Cheng He; Sha Xu; Shuqun Song; Caiwen Li (Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2022)

Aortic stiffness increases during prolonged sitting independent of intermittent standing or prior exercise - Alexander Wright; Jon Stavres; Riley Galloway; Paul Donahue; Zhanxin Sha; Stephanie McCoy (European Journal of Applied Physiology, 2022)

Dynamic evaluation of environmental impact for three-way catalytic converter with temporal variation life cycle method - Yingying Liu; Hanbing Li; Sha Chen; Yana Zhang; He Lv; Shuqi Yan; Yipei Li; Zunwen Liu (The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 2022)

A comprehensive review on coupled processes and mechanisms of soil-vegetation-hydrology, and recent research advances - Zhongkai Li; Xiaoyan Li; Sha Zhou; Xiaofan Yang; Yongshuo Fu; Chiyuan Miao; Shuai Wang; Guanghui Zhang; Xiuchen Wu; Chao Yang; Yuanhong Deng (Science China Earth Sciences, 2022)

A two-year (2020–2021) observation of marine phycotoxins in phytoplankton in typical mariculture areas of East China Sea - Xiaoqing Tian; Chengqi Fan; Yunyu Tang; Haiyan Zhang; Wei Kang; Sha Chen; Chongbin Li; Ya’nan Lu (Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2022)

Assessment of the Bioavailability of Mercury Sulfides in Paddy Soils Using Sodium Thiosulfate Extraction - Results from Microcosm Experiments - Hong Li; Yunyun Li; Wenli Tang; Huan Zhong; Jiating Zhao; Xu Bai; Shengnan Sha; Diandou Xu; Pei Lei; Yuxi Gao (Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 2022)

Cryptic diversity and population genetic structure of the mantis shrimp Oratosquilla oratoria in South Korea - Hee-seung Hwang; Jibom Jung; Jiao Cheng; Zhong-li Sha; Jongwoo Jung (Genes & Genomics, 2022)

The role of ancestral seascape discontinuity and geographical distance in structuring rockfish populations in the Pacific Northwest - Cheng-He Sun; Rodolphe Elie Gozlan; Ting Wu; Dan Xue; Ye-Ling Lao; Jian-Feng Yu; Xiao-Shu Zeng; Sha Li; Emilie A. Hardouin; Demetra Andreou; Qun Zhang (Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022)
Despite the apparent absence of physical barriers in the ocean to prevent dispersal, recent studies have highlighted the importance of biological, geographical, physical, and historical barriers in the genetic structuring of marine species populations. This representation is essential for the sustainable exploitation of natural marine resources and for the setup of efficient protected area networks for the conservation of marine species. In this study, we used extensive sampling of Sebastiscus marmoratus , a commercially important inshore rockfish with high site fidelity, to characterize their population genetic structure along the China–Japan coast and to determine the effect of past geological and current biological–physical barriers on the current genetic footprint. A 461-bp fragment of the mtDNA hypervariable portion control region was sequenced for 675 individuals from 15 geographical locations. A total of 292 haplotypes were identified. The population of S. marmoratus showed high haplotype and nucleotide diversity. Pairwise fixation index ( F ST ) and analysis of molecular variance (AMOVA) revealed significant genetic differentiation among populations. The Bayesian skyline plots and neutrality statistics showed a sudden expansion of the S. marmoratus population around the Pleistocene. The Beibu Gulf group had the lowest mean number of pairwise differences, the lowest significant genetic differentiation, and the lowest haplotype and nucleotide diversity, and should be prioritized for protection in the future. Ocean currents, seascape discontinuity, geographical distance, and ecological characteristics may play an important role in shaping the contemporary phylogeographical patterns and population structures of S. marmoratus .

Fine mapping of the reduced height gene Rht22 in tetraploid wheat landrace Jianyangailanmai (Triticum turgidum L.) - Chao Wang; Yunjing Bao; Qin Yao; Dan Long; Xue Xiao; Xing Fan; Houyang Kang; Jian Zeng; Lina Sha; Haiqin Zhang; Dandan Wu; Yonghong Zhou; et al. (Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2022)

Vasorin contributes to lung injury via FABP4-mediated inflammation - Xiaoping Guo; Junming Sun; Jinning Liang; Siran Zhu; Mingyuan Zhang; Lichao Yang; Xuejing Huang; Kangning Xue; Zhongxiang Mo; Sha Wen; Bing Hu; Jiajuan Liu; et al. (Molecular Biology Reports, 2022)

Insights into the development of pentylenetetrazole-induced epileptic seizures from dynamic metabolomic changes - Xue Zhao; Peixuan Cheng; Ru Xu; Kaili Meng; Sha Liao; Pu Jia; Xiaohui Zheng; Chaoni Xiao (Metabolic Brain Disease, 2022)

Experimental Study on Precise Recognition of Settlements in Mountainous Areas Based on UAV Image and LIDAR Point Cloud - Sha Gao; Xiping Yuan; Shu Gan; Yafu Yang; Xinyue Yuan (Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing, 2022)

Notch1 down-regulation in lineage-restricted niches is involved in the development of mouse eccrine sweat glands - Yuzhen Wang; Bin Yao; Xianlan Duan; Jianjun Li; Wei Song; Enhejirigala; Zhao Li; Xingyu Yuan; Yi Kong; Yijie Zhang; Xiaobing Fu; Sha Huang (Journal of Molecular Histology, 2022)

Spatial and seasonal variation and sources of deposition fluxes of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in Shanghai - Jian Wu; Chenyan Sha; Dayan Li; Cheng Shen; Hao Tang; Shenfa Huang (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

EGFR-targeted pemetrexed therapy of malignant pleural mesothelioma - Liang Yang; Hanghang Fang; Jingjing Jiang; Yongjie Sha; Zhiyuan Zhong; Fenghua Meng (Drug Delivery and Translational Research, 2022)

MilR3, a unique SARP family pleiotropic regulator in Streptomyces bingchenggensis - Yu-Si Yan; Yun-Qi Yang; Li-Sha Zhou; Ling Zhang; Hai-Yang Xia (Archives of Microbiology, 2022)

Biogeographic role of the Indonesian Seaway implicated by colonization history of purpleback flying squid, Sthenoteuthis oualaniensis (Lesson, 1830), in the Indo-Pacific Ocean - Lijun He; Shasha Xu; David A. Weese; Jie Zhang; Huimin Ren; Fenghua Tang; Zhongli Sha; Jing Zhang (Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022)
As a bio]diversity hotspot, the East Indies (Coral) Triangle possesses the highest biodiversity on the earth. However, evolutionary hypotheses around this area remain controversial; e.g., center of origin, center of accumulation, and center of overlap have been supported by different species. This study aims to answer the evolutionary influence of the Indonesian Seaway on the biodiversity of the Coral Triangle by recovering the evolutionary origins of a wide-ranging ommastrephid squid ( Sthenoteuthis oualaniensis ) based on integrated molecular and oceanographic clues from the Indo-Pacific. Three new clades were revealed; viz., clade I from the South China Sea, clade II from the northern East Indian Ocean, and clade III from the southern East Indian Ocean. These two Indian Ocean clades formed a monophyly closely related to clade IV from the Central-Southeast Pacific. Clade VI from the central Equatorial Pacific and clade V from the northern Eastern Pacific sit in basal positions of phylogenetic trees. Ancestral Sthenoteuthis was inferred to have originated from the Atlantic Ocean and sequentially dispersed to the northern East Pacific, central Equatorial Pacific, and West Pacific through the open Panama Seaway and being transported by westward North Equatorial Current. The East Indian Ocean was likely colonized by an ancestral population of clade IV from the Southeast Pacific. Westward South Equatorial Circulation could have promoted transoceanic migration of S. oualaniensis through the wide paleo-Indonesian Seaway. Sea level regression since the Miocene and the closure of the Indonesian Seaway at 4–3 Ma were responsible for the population genetic differentiation of S. oualaniensis in the Indo-Pacific. Therefore, the Indonesian Gateway played an important role in influencing marine organisms’ migration and population differentiation through controlling and reorganizing circulations in the Indo-Pacific.

The growth, biochemical composition, and antioxidant response of Microcystis and Chlorella are influenced by Ibuprofen - Ramatu Idris Sha’aba; Mathias Ahii Chia; Yisa Abraham Gana; Abdullahi Bala Alhassan; Ibrahim Madu Katsallah Gadzama (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

Abrupt fluctuations in North Pacific Intermediate Water modulated changes in deglacial atmospheric CO2 - Yanguang Liu; Yue Qiu; Dongling Li; Antonina V. Artemova; Yuying Zhang; Aleksandr A. Bosin; Sergey A. Gorbarenko; Qingsong Liu; Debo Zhao; Longbin Sha; Yi Zhong (Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022)
As a major reservoir of heat and CO 2 , the Pacific Ocean is an important component of the global climate system, but the nature of its circulation under different climatic conditions remains poorly understood. We present sedimentary records of surface water hydrography and nutrient dynamics from the subarctic Pacific Ocean, with the aim of investigating changes in sea-ice coverage, biological productivity, and sea surface temperature in the subarctic Northwest Pacific since 32 kyr. Our records indicate an enhanced North Pacific surface water stratification from the last glacial to Heinrich Stadial 1, which generally limited the siliceous productivity supply to the surface water. A productivity peak during the Bølling/Allerød warm interval was associated with an increase in the atmospheric p CO 2 , and it was driven by the increased supply of nutrient- and CO 2 -rich waters. This process can be attributed to the collapse of the North Pacific Intermediate Water formation at the onset of the Bølling/Allerød interstadial. Moreover, a northward shift of the westerly winds and the gyre boundary could have modulated the expansion of the subpolar gyre, driving changes in poleward heat transport, biogeochemistry, and the hydroclimate of the North Pacific. Our results are consistent with modern evidence for a northward shift of the westerlies in response to global warming, which will likely result in CO 2 outgassing from the subarctic Pacific Ocean in the future.

Phylogenetic analyses, morphological studies, and muscarine detection reveal two new toxic Pseudosperma (Inocybaceae, Agaricales) species from tropical China - Li-Na Zhao; Wen-Jie Yu; Lun-Sha Deng; Jian-Hua Hu; Yu-Peng Ge; Nian-Kai Zeng; Yu-Guang Fan (Mycological Progress, 2022)

Research progress and kinetic model review of biological processes for purifying SO2 and NOx - J. Shen; L. Cai; Z. Mao; H. Sha (International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 2022)

Environmental regulation, market demand, and green innovation: spatial perspective evidence from China - Xiaoyu Shao; Sha Liu; Ruiping Ran; Yunqiang Liu (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

A meta‐analysis study of the robustness and universality of gut microbiota–shrimp diseases relationship - Haonan Sha; Jiaqi Lu; Jiong Chen; Jinbo Xiong (Environmental Microbiology, 2022)
Summary Intensive case study has established dysbiosis in the gut microbiota–shrimp disease relationship; however, variability in experimental design and the diversity of diseases arise the question of whether some gut indicators are robust and universal in response to shrimp health status, irrespective of causal agents. Through an unbiased subject‐level meta‐analysis framework, we re‐analysed 10 studies, including 261 samples, four lifestages and six different diseases (the causal agents are virus, bacterial, eukaryotic pathogens, or unknown). Results showed that shrimp diseases reproducibly altered the structure of gut bacterial community, but not diversity. After ruling out the lifestage‐ and disease specific‐ discriminatory taxa (different diseases dependent indicators), we identify 18 common disease‐discriminatory taxa (indicative of health status, irrespective of causal agents) that accurately diagnosed (90.0% accuracy) shrimp health status, regardless of different diseases. These optimizations substantially improved the performance (62.6% vs. 90.0%) diagnosing model. The robustness and universality of model were validated for effectiveness via leave‐one‐dataset‐out validation and independent cohorts. Interspecies interaction and stability of the gut microbiotas were consistently compromised in diseased shrimp compared with corresponding healthy cohorts, while stochasticity and beta‐dispersion exhibited the opposite trend. Collectively, our findings exemplify the utility of microbiome meta‐analyses in identifying robust and reproducible features for quantitatively diagnosing disease incidence, and the downstream consequences for shrimp pathogenesis from an ecological prospective.

Reproductive dispersion and damping time scale with life‐history speed - Sha Jiang; Harman Jaggi; Wenyun Zuo; Madan K. Oli; Tim Coulson; Jean‐Michel Gaillard; Shripad Tuljapurkar (Ecology Letters, 2022)
Iteroparous species may reproduce at many different ages, resulting in a reproductive dispersion that affects the damping of population perturbations, and varies among life histories. Since generation time () is known to capture aspects of life‐history variation, such as life‐history speed, does also determine reproductive dispersion () or damping time ()? Using phylogenetically corrected analyses on 633 species of animals and plants, we find, firstly, that reproductive dispersion scales isometrically with . Secondly, and unexpectedly, we find that the damping time () does not scale isometrically with generation time, but instead changes only as with (also, there is a similar scaling with ). This non‐isometric scaling implies a novel demographic contrast: increasing generation times correspond to a proportional increase in reproductive dispersion, but only to a slower increase in the damping time. Thus, damping times are partly decoupled from the slow‐fast continuum, and are determined by factors other than allometric constraints.

Insights into adaptive divergence of Japanese mantis shrimp Oratosquilla oratoria inferred from comparative analysis of full-length transcriptomes - Jiao Cheng; Liwen Zhang; Min Hui; Yuan Li; Zhongli Sha (Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022)
The heterogeneous seascapes in the northwestern Pacific (NWP) can be important selective forces driving adaptive divergence of marine coastal species distributed along the gradients. Here, we tested this hypothesis in Japanese mantis shrimp ( Oratosquilla oratoria ) with a wide distribution in the NWP and a significant north-south population structure. To this end, the full-length (FL) transcriptomes of northern and southern O. oratoria were firstly sequenced using PacBio single molecule real-time sequencing technology. Based on the FL transcriptome data, we captured large-scale FL transcripts of O. oratoria and predicted the FL transcriptome structure, including coding region, transcription factor and long noncoding RNA. To reveal the divergence between northern and southern O. oratoria , we identified 2,182 pairs of orthologous genes and inferred their sequence divergences. The average differences in coding, 5’ untranslated and 3’ untranslated region were 1.44%, 2.79% and 1.46%, respectively, providing additional support to previous proposition that northern and southern O. oratoria are two species. We provided further evolutionary context to our analysis by identifying positive selected genes (PSGs) between northern and southern O. oratoria . In total, 98 orthologs were found evolving under positive selection and involved several environmentally responsive genes associated with stress response, immunity and cytoskeletal organization, etc. Furthermore, we found PSGs also diverged in gene expression response of northern and southern O. oratoria to heat stress. These findings not only highlight the importance of genetic variation in these genes in adapting to environmental changes in O. oratoria , but also suggest that natural selection may act on the plasticity of gene expression to facilitate O. oratoria adaptation to environmental gradients. Overall, our work contributes to understanding how marine coastal species has evolved to adapt to heterogeneous seascapes in the NWP.

Accurate prediction of stomach adenocarcinomas of poorest and best prognosis with a combination of gene expression and clinical signatures - Lingyu Qiu; Huayu Kang; Jielin Yang; Yidong Zheng; Aiyue Chen; Chunlin Chen; Xinlong Wang; Qiongfang Fang; Wei-Guo Zhu; Ou Sha; Yejun Wang (Genome Instability & Disease, 2022)

Three new unsaturated fatty acids from marine-derived fungus Aspergillus sp. SCAU150 - Ting Zhao; Xiao-Yong Zhang; Ran-Sha Deng; Zhen Tan; Guang-Ying Chen; Xu-Hua Nong (Natural Product Research, 2022)

Three-Dimensional Pseudo-Lithologic Modeling Via Adaptive Feature Weighted k-Means Algorithm from Multi-Source Geophysical Datasets, Qingchengzi Pb–Zn–Ag–Au District, China - Zhiqiang Zhang; Gongwen Wang; Emmanuel John M. Carranza; Shuren Yang; Ke Zhao; Wangdong Yang; Deming Sha (Natural Resources Research, 2022)

The impact of SARS-CoV-2 treatment on the cardiovascular system: an updated review - Mohammed Ahmed Akkaif; Abubakar Sha’aban; Arturo Cesaro; Ammar Ali Saleh Jaber; Andrea Vergara; Ismaeel Yunusa; Abubakar Ibrahim Jatau; Mustapha Mohammed; G. Saravana Govindasamy; Majed Ahmed Al-Mansoub; Muhamad Ali Sheikh Abdul Kader; Baharudin Ibrahim (Inflammopharmacology, 2022)

Disassociated and concurrent structural and functional abnormalities in the drug-naïve first-episode early onset schizophrenia - Qiang Li; Sha Liu; Xiaohua Cao; Zexuan Li; Yun-shuang Fan; Yanfang Wang; Jiaojian Wang; Yong Xu (Brain Imaging and Behavior, 2022)
Schizophrenia which is an abnormally developmental disease has been widely reported to show abnormal brain structure and function. Enhanced functional integration is a predominant neural marker for brain mature. Abnormal development of structure and functional integration may be a biomarker for early diagnosis of schizophrenia. Fifty-five patients with early onset schizophrenia (EOS) and 79 healthy controls were enrolled in this study. Voxel-based morphometry (VBM) and functional connectivity density (FCD) were performed to explore gray matter volume (GMV) lesion, abnormal functional integration, and concurrent structural and functional abnormalities in the brain. Furthermore, the relationships between abnormalities structural and function and clinical characteristics were evaluated in EOS. Compared with healthy controls, EOS showed significantly decreased GMV in the bilateral OFC, frontal, temporal, occipital, parietal and limbic system. EOS also showed decreased FCD in precuneus and increased FCD in cerebellum. Moreover, we found concurrent changes of structure and function in left lateral orbitofrontal cortex (lOFC). Finally, correlation analyses did not find significant correlation between abnormal neural measurements and clinical characteristic in EOS. The results reveal disassociated and bound structural and functional abnormalities patterns in EOS suggesting structural and functional measurements play different roles in delineating the abnormal patterns of EOS. The concurrent structural and functional changes in lOFC may be a biomarker for early diagnosis of schizophrenia. Our findings will deepen our understanding of the pathophysiological mechanisms in EOS.

ML323, a USP1 inhibitor triggers cell cycle arrest, apoptosis and autophagy in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma cells - Yaxin Sun; Beibei Sha; Wenjing Huang; Miaomiao Li; Shan Zhao; Yuan Zhang; Jie Yan; Zheng Li; Jingwen Tang; Peiyan Duan; Jianxiang Shi; Pei Li; et al. (Apoptosis, 2022)

Armochaetoglasins J and K: new cytochalasans from Chaetomium globosum - Li Cheng; Xi Zheng; Qin Li; Meng-Sha Wei; Chun-Mei Chen; Hu-Cheng Zhu; Chang-Li Zeng; Xin-Cai Hao; Yong-Hui Zhang (Natural Product Research, 2022)

Effects of land cover type conversion on water exchange and climate change in the source area of the Yellow River - Lijuan Wang; Ni Guo; Sha Sha; Yang Yang; Xiaoping Wang; Die Hu (Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 2022)

Association between ambient temperature and cardiovascular disease hospitalisations among farmers in suburban northwest China - Bin Wang; Guorong Chai; Yongzhong Sha; Yana Su (International Journal of Biometeorology, 2022)

Effects of shining pondweed (Potamogeton lucens) on bacterial communities in water and rhizosphere sediments in Nansi Lake, China - Nianxin Zhang; Mengmeng Wu; Yuying Che; Yong Kong; Fengyue Shu; Qingfeng Wang; Weilai Sha; Zhijin Gong; Jing Zhou (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

Short-term effects of main air pollutants exposure on LOS and costs of CVD hospital admissions from 30,959 cases among suburban farmers in Pingliang, Northwest China - Qunwu Zha; Guorong Chai; Zhe-George Zhang; Yongzhong Sha; Yana Su (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

Can the Leading Officials’ Accountability Audit of Natural Resources policy stimulate Chinese heavy-polluting enterprises’ green behavior? - Yunqiang Liu; Yanan She; Sha Liu; Hong Tang (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

Identification of the Largest SCA36 Pedigree in Asia: with Multimodel Neuroimaging Evaluation for the First Time - Yue Xie; Zhao Chen; Zhe Long; Rui-Ting Chen; Yi-Zheng Jiang; Ming-Jie Liu; Lin-Liu Peng; Hui-Rong Peng; Na Wan; Guangdong Zou; Chun-Rong Wang; Yu-Ting Shi; et al. (The Cerebellum, 2022)

Erratum to: Generating broad-spectrum tolerance to ALS-inhibiting herbicides in rice by base editing - Rui Zhang; Sha Chen; Xiangbing Meng; Zhuangzhuang Chai; Delin Wang; Yuge Yuan; Kunling Chen; Linjian Jiang; Jiayang Li; Caixia Gao (Science China Life Sciences, 2022)

The SACT Template: A Human Brain Diffusion Tensor Template for School-age Children - Congying Chu; Haoran Guan; Sangma Xie; Yanpei Wang; Jie Luo; Gai Zhao; Zhiying Pan; Mingming Hu; Weiwei Men; Shuping Tan; Jia-Hong Gao; Shaozheng Qin; et al. (Neuroscience Bulletin, 2022)

Generating phone-quality records to train machine learning models for smartphone-based earthquake early warning - Zengwei Zheng; Jiquan Wang; Lifei Shi; Sha Zhao; Jianmin Hou; Lin Sun; Lin Dong (Journal of Seismology, 2022)

Geochronology and geochemistry of monzonitic granites from the eastern central Qilian Block, northwest China - Dongyi Lv; Erfeng Ren; Jilong Han; Binkai Li; Sha Yang (Journal of Earth System Science, 2022)

Impact of temperature changes between neighboring days on cardiovascular disease hospital admissions among suburban farmers in Qingyang, Northwest China - Qunwu Zha; Guorong Chai; Zhe-George Zhang; Yongzhong Sha; Yana Su; Tingting Wu (International Journal of Biometeorology, 2022)

Characteristics of land-subsidence evolution and soil deformation before and after the Water Diversion Project in Beijing, China - Kunchao Lei; Fengshan Ma; Beibei Chen; Yong Luo; Wenjun Cui; Yi Zhou; Fang Tian; Te Sha (Hydrogeology Journal, 2022)

Invasibility and recoverability of a plant community following invasion depend on its successional stages - Hongwei Xu; Zemin Ai; Qing Qu; Minggang Wang; Guobin Liu; Sha Xue (Soil Ecology Letters, 2022)

Variations of Raindrop Size Distribution and Radar Retrieval in Outer Rainbands of Typhoon Mangkhut (2018) - Jingjing Lyu; Huiwen Xiao; Yuchun Du; Lina Sha; Yuqing Deng; Weikai Jia; Shengjie Niu; Yue Zhou; Guqian Pang (Journal of Meteorological Research, 2022)

A newly isolated human intestinal strain deglycosylating flavonoid C-glycosides - Sha Wang; Siqi Liu; Jing Wang; Jiayue Tao; Mengjiao Wu; Wenfu Ma; Rufeng Wang (Archives of Microbiology, 2022)

First report of Neoscytalidium dimidiatum inducing canker disease on apple trees in China - Shuaishuai Sha; Zhe Wang; Haiting Hao; Lan Wang; Hongzu Feng (Journal of Plant Pathology, 2022)

Hypoxia Stress Induces Tissue Damage, Immune Defense, and Oxygen Transport Change in Gill of Silver Carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix): Evaluation on Hypoxia by Using Transcriptomics - Xiaohui Li; Chen Ling; Qiaoxin Wang; Cui Feng; Xiangzhong Luo; Hang Sha; Guoyu He; Guiwei Zou; Hongwei Liang (Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022)
The silver carp ( Hypophthalmichthys molitrix ) is an economically, as well as environmentally, important fish that harbors low environmental hypoxia tolerance and frequently contributes to a loss of aquaculture productivity. The gill is the first tissue attacked by hypoxia; however, the response of the gills of H. molitrix to hypoxia stress at the tissue, cellular, and molecular levels has not been clearly established. The influence of hypoxia on histological features along with gene expression in silver carp gills were explored in this research. The hematoxylin and eosin-stained sections and electron microscopy examinations of gills indicated that the gill lamellae were seriously twisted, gill filaments were dehisced, and the swelling and shedding of epithelial cell layer in the gill tissue were intensified along with the degree of hypoxia. In the hypoxia, semi-asphyxia, and asphyxia groups, the gill transcriptomic assessment of shifts in key genes, as well as modulatory networks in response to hypoxic conditions revealed 587, 725, and 748 differentially expressed genes, respectively. These genes are abundant in immune response signaling cascades (e.g., complement and coagulation cascades, Nucleotide-binding and oligomerization domain (NOD)-like receptor signaling cascade, and differentiation of Th1 along with Th2 cells) and oxygen transport [e.g., MAPK, PI3K-Akt, and hypoxia-inducible factor 1 (HIF-1) signaling cascades]. Genes linked to immune response (e.g., c2 , c3 , c6 , klf4 , cxcr4 , cd45 , and cd40 ) and oxygen transport (e.g., egln1 , egln3 , epo , ldh , and vegfa ) were additionally identified. According to our findings, the silver carp may be using “HIF-1” to obtain additional oxygen during hypoxia. These findings illustrate that hypoxia stress might damage gill tissue, trigger an immunological response, and activate HIF-1 signaling to increase oxygen availability under hypoxic situations. The findings of this work will help scientists better understand the molecular mechanisms driving hypoxia responses in hypoxia-sensitive fish and speed up the development of hypoxia-resistant varieties.

A Shuttling Protein Kank1 Plays Important Role in the Sex Determination in Yellow Drum - Sha Sun; Jieping Liu; Sen Zhang; Qiwei He; Wei Han; Kun Ye; Fang Han; Wanbo Li; Zhiyong Wang (Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022)
Sex is one of the most important scientific topics, and the existence of sex dimorphism is a conserved feature in vertebrate taxa. The research on sex-determining genes and sex chromosome evolution is a hot topic in biology. The majority of sex-determining genes expressed in somatic cells, and reciprocal interactions between germ cells and somatic cells, are important for gonadal differentiation. However, the knowledge of how signals are transmitted between somatic cells and germ cells remains unclear. In this study, we confirmed the 36 dph was a sex determination critical stage in yellow drum through transcriptome analysis at the early development stages. We further found that Kank1 participated in the germ cells’ motility process in yellow drum through KEGG pathway analysis together with protein-protein interaction network. With the dual-luciferase reporter assay, we detected that Kank1 increased the transcription of dmrt1_Luc gene in CHO cells and 293T cells. Additionally, we observed that Kank1 was not only expressed in the cytoplasm but also in the nucleus in CHO cells through a fluorescence microscope. These results suggest that Kank1 acts as a shuttling protein as in humans and may play a difunctional role at the early gonad development stage in yellow drum, and it not only participated in the germ cells’ motility but also increased the expression of dmrt1 in yellow drum.

Genome-wide identification of quantitative trait loci for morpho-agronomic and yield-related traits in foxtail millet (Setaria italica) across multi-environments - Tianpeng Liu; Jihong He; Kongjun Dong; Xuewen Wang; Lei Zhang; Ruiyu Ren; Sha Huang; Xiaoting Sun; Wanxiang Pan; Wenwen Wang; Peng Yang; Tianyu Yang; et al. (Molecular Genetics and Genomics, 2022)
Foxtail millet ( Setaria italica ) is an ideal model of genetic system for functional genomics of the Panicoideae crop. Identification of QTL responsible for morpho-agronomic and yield-related traits facilitates dissection of genetic control and breeding in cereal crops. Here, based on a Yugu1 × Longgu7 RIL population and genome-wide resequencing data, an updated linkage map harboring 2297 bin and 74 SSR markers was constructed, spanning 1315.1 cM with an average distance of 0.56 cM between adjacent markers. A total of 221 QTL for 17 morpho-agronomic and yield-related traits explaining 5.5 ~ 36% of phenotypic variation were identified across multi-environments. Of these, 109 QTL were detected in two to nine environments, including the most stable qLMS6.1 harboring a promising candidate gene Seita.6G250500 , of which 70 were repeatedly identified in different trials in the same geographic location, suggesting that foxtail millet has more identical genetic modules under the similar ecological environment. One hundred-thirty QTL with overlapping intervals formed 22 QTL clusters. Furthermore, six superior recombinant inbred lines, RIL35, RIL48, RIL77, RIL80, RIL115 and RIL125 with transgressive inheritance and enrichment of favorable alleles in plant height, tiller, panicle morphology and yield related-traits were screened by hierarchical cluster. These identified QTL, QTL clusters and superior lines lay ground for further gene-trait association studies and breeding practice in foxtail millet.

First report of Cytospora chrysosperma causing canker on staghorn sumac in China - Zhe Wang; Hai-ting Hao; Shuai-shuai Sha; Sha-sha Peng; Xin-ru Zhang; Lan Wang; Hong-zu Feng (Journal of Plant Pathology, 2022)

Metals extraction processes from electronic waste: constraints and opportunities - Shovra Chandra Chakraborty; Md. Wahad Uz Zaman; Mozammel Hoque; Md. Qamruzzaman; Jahid Uz Zaman; Delowar Hossain; Biplob Kumar Pramanik; Luong Ngoc Nguyen; Long Duc Nghiem; Md. Mofijur; Md. Ibrahim H. Mondal; Jeni Aprazita Sithi; et al. (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

Sector linkages and driving forces of Chinese household CO2 emissions based on semi-closed input–output model - Qinghua Pang; Xianwei Dong; Sha Peng; Lina Zhang (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

Mitogenomes Provide Insights Into the Evolution of Thoracotremata (Brachyura: Eubrachyura) - Shao’e Sun; Wei Jiang; Ziming Yuan; Zhongli Sha (Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022)
Thoracotremata is a group of Brachyura, with 1,248 extant species. To date, parts of the thoracotreme phylogeny are not yet resolved and require further investigation . In this study, 12 new mitogenomes from the four thoracotreme superfamilies were sequenced. They contain a standard set of 37 genes, and vary in size from 15,422 ( Hapalocarcinus marsupialis Stimpson, 1858 sensu lato ) to 16,490 bp [ Arcotheres sinensis (Shen, 1932)]. Combined with 58 thoracotreme mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes) from GenBank, we described the evolution of gene rearrangement and the internal phylogenetic relationships of Thoracotremata, and evaluated the phylogenetic position of Cryptochiroidea and Pinnotheroidea. Nine distinct patterns of mitochondrial gene order (MGO) among thoracotreme mitogenomes are identified, with four MGOs newly found in Thoracotremata. All other gene orders are the result of transformational pathways originating from brachyuran gene order (BraGO). The different gene orders have variable levels of gene rearrangements, which involve both tRNAs and protein-coding genes. No link between variable gene arrangements (breakpoint distances) and nucleotide substitution rates (branch lengths) is found in thoracotreme crabs. The symbiotic groups, the cryptochiroid and pinnotheroid crabs, display variable MGOs (CryGO, Pin1GO, and Pin2GO), providing evidence for possible correlations of rearranged MGOs to the adaptations to specialized lifestyles. In our phylogenetic analyses, Cryptochiridae (Cryptochiroidea) show close relationship with an Ocypodoidea lineage (Camptandriidae/Xenophthalmidae/Dotillidae). Pinnotheridae (Pinnotheroidea) form the basal monophyletic clade.

Two New Species of Cyphocaris (Amphipoda, Amphilochidea, Cyphocarididae) From Water Columns Above a Methane Seep in the South China Sea - Yanrong Wang; Zhongli Sha; Xianqiu Ren (Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022)
The Formosa Ridge methane seep is one of three known active methane seepage areas discovered on the northern slope of the South China Sea. Cyphocaris is a genus of pelagic amphipods. Two new species of Cyphocaris collected from water columns above the Formosa Ridge methane seep are reported in the present study. Cyphocaris lubrica sp. nov. collected at a depth of 1,118 m is characterized by pereonite 1 dorsal projection not extending beyond head, and the pereopod 5 having a spur beyond pereonite 7. Cyphocaris formosa sp. nov. collected at a depth of 500–800 m is characterized by well-developed pereonite 1 dorsal projection extending beyond head and pereopod 5 without spur. The present work describes these two new species and compares them with closely related species, and provides a modified key of world Cyphocarididae species.

A point cloud registration method based on dual quaternion description with point-linear feature constraints - Raobo Li; Xiping Yuan; Shu Gan; Rui Bi; Yan Guo; Sha Gao (International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2022)

A risk-based decision model for rainwater resource supply in forward contracts - Yu Zhang; Haifei Sha; Xiufeng Wu; Shiqiang Wu; Jiangyu Dai; Bin Xu; Lei Yu; Qianqian Yang (Water Resources Management, 2022)

Damage Evaluation and Statistic Constitutive Model of High-Temperature Granites Subjected to Liquid Nitrogen Cold Shock - Zhiheng Chen; Song Sha; Lida Xu; Junsong Quan; Guan Rong; Maiyong Jiang (Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, 2022)

Unraveling the Dynamic Integration of Auxin, Brassinosteroid and Gibberellin in Early Shade-Induced Hypocotyl Elongation - Sha Huang; Chuanwei Yang; Lin Li (Phenomics, 2022)

Molecular Subgroup Classification in Alzheimer’s Disease by Transcriptomic Profiles - Sha Liu; Yan Lu; Deqin Geng (Journal of Molecular Neuroscience, 2022)

Monitoring soil salinization and its spatiotemporal variation at different depths across the Yellow River Delta based on remote sensing data with multi-parameter optimization - Tiantian Cheng; Jiahua Zhang; Sha Zhang; Yun Bai; Jingwen Wang; Shuaishuai Li; Tehseen Javid; Xianglei Meng; Til Prasad Pangali Sharma (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

Resveratrol inhibits the expression of RYR2 and is a potential treatment for pancreatic cancer - He Jiang; Guotai Wang; Jingtao Gu; Ying Xiao; Pengli Wang; Xin Huang; Huanchen Sha; Zheng Wang; Qingyong Ma (Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology, 2022)

Activating PIK3CA postzygotic mutations in segmental overgrowth of muscles with bone involvement in the body extremities - Wen Tian; Liying Sun; Qi Zhang; Junhui Zhao; Yang Guo; Wenyao Zhong; Liu Liu; Katia Meirelles; Sha Tang; Jing Zhang; Yingzhao Huang; Yuehan Yin; et al. (Molecular Genetics and Genomics, 2022)

Applying wavelet transform to suppress ghost in ocean-bottom node dual-sensor technology - Xiawan Zhou; Peng Guo; Sha Song; Qingchun Li (Marine Geophysical Research, 2022)

The ecological responses of bacterioplankton during a Phaeocystis globosa bloom in Beibu Gulf, China highlighted by integrated metagenomics and metatranscriptomics - Sha Xu; Cheng He; Zhenjun Kang; Shuqun Song; Caiwen Li (Marine Biology, 2022)

Relative contributions of temperature and salinity to steric sea level over the South China Sea - Jin Sha; Xiaoming Li; Xiaohai Yan (Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2022)

Similarity and Dissimilarity Regularized Nonnegative Matrix Factorization for Single-Cell RNA-seq Analysis - Ya-Li Zhu; Sha-Sha Yuan; Jin-Xing Liu (Interdisciplinary Sciences: Computational Life Sciences, 2022)

The roles of foreign direct investments, economic growth, and capital investments in decarbonizing the economy of Oman - Ishfaq Hamid; Md Shabbir Alam; Muntasir Murshed; Pabitra Kumar Jena; Nadia Sha; Mohammad Noor Alam (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

Analysis of geomorphologic features of the circular structure in the south of Lufeng Dinosaur Valley - Hu Lin; Gan Shu; Yuan Xiping; Yang MingLong; Gao Sha; Bi Rui; Li Yan (Earth Science Informatics, 2022)

A soil-borne Mn(II)-oxidizing bacterium of Providencia sp. exploits a strategy of superoxide production coupled to hydrogen peroxide consumption to generate Mn oxides - Sha Chen; Zhexu Ding; Jinyuan Chen; Jun Luo; Xiaofang Ruan; Zongpei Li; Fengfeng Liao; Jing He; Ding Li (Archives of Microbiology, 2022)

Tourism-oriented comprehensive land development (TOLD) in subtropical mountain region, Fuzhou, China - Xiaomei Li; Yun Wu; Jinming Sha; Qixin Lin; Ahmed Eladawy (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2022)

Trade-offs and synergies of ecosystem services in the Yangtze River Delta, China: response to urbanizing variation - Sha Chen; Guan Li; Yuefei Zhuo; Zhongguo Xu; Yanmei Ye; Jessica P. R. Thorn; Robert Marchant (Urban Ecosystems, 2022)

Selegiline Protects Against Lipopolysaccharide (LPS)–Induced Impairment of the Blood–Brain Barrier Through Regulating the NF-κB/MLCK/p-MLC Signaling Pathway - Yuehong Pu; Fenghua Qian; Jian Guo; Yuanyuan Sha; Yiming Qian (Neurotoxicity Research, 2022)

What are more important for aftershock spatial distribution prediction, features, or models? A case study in China - Sha Zhao; Haiyan Wang; Yan Xue; Yilin Wang; Shijian Li; Jie Liu; Gang Pan (Journal of Seismology, 2022)

Spatiotemporal variations of air pollution and population exposure in Shandong Province, eastern China, 2014–2018 - Xi Zhong; Yanqing Zhao; Jingjing Sha; Haiyong Liang; Peng Wu (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2022)

Impact of caterpillars and plant-parasitic nematodes on Chinese tallow tree are more strongly affected by nematode density than by caterpillar identity - Sha Yang; Wenfeng Guo; Jun Tang; Wei Wang; Qingbiao Wu; Xiaoqiong Li (Arthropod-Plant Interactions, 2022)

Mechanism of berberine hydrochloride interfering with biofilm formation of Hafnia alvei - Yuesheng Pang; Sha Wang; Jiayue Tao; Jing Wang; Zhe Xue; Rufeng Wang (Archives of Microbiology, 2022)

Microbial traits determine soil C emission in response to fresh carbon inputs in forests across biomes - Chengjie Ren; Jieying Wang; Felipe Bastida; Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo; Yuanhe Yang; Jun Wang; Zekun Zhong; Zhenghu Zhou; Shuohong Zhang; Yaoxin Guo; Sha Zhou; Gehong Wei; et al. (Global Change Biology, 2022)
Soil priming is a microbial‐driven process, which determines key soil–climate feedbacks in response to fresh carbon inputs. Despite its importance, the microbial traits behind this process are largely undetermined. Knowledge of the role of these traits is integral to advance our understanding of how soil microbes regulate carbon (C) emissions in forests, which support the largest soil carbon stocks globally. Using metagenomic sequencing and 13 C‐glucose, we provide unprecedented evidence that microbial traits explain a unique portion of the variation in soil priming across forest biomes from tropical to cold temperature regions. We show that microbial functional profiles associated with the degradation of labile C, especially rapid simple sugar metabolism, drive soil priming in different forests. Genes involved in the degradation of lignin and aromatic compounds were negatively associated with priming effects in temperate forests, whereas the highest level of soil priming was associated with β‐glucosidase genes in tropical/subtropical forests. Moreover, we reconstructed, for the first time, 42 whole bacterial genomes associated with the soil priming effect and found that these organisms support important gene machinery involved in priming effect. Collectively, our work demonstrates the importance of microbial traits to explain soil priming across forest biomes and suggests that rapid carbon metabolism is responsible for priming effects in forests. This knowledge is important because it advances our understanding on the microbial mechanisms mediating soil–climate feedbacks at a continental scale.

CcpA mutants influence selective carbon source utilization by changing interactions with target genes in Bacillus licheniformis - Yupeng Zhang; Youran Li; Fengxu Xiao; Hanrong Wang; Liang Zhang; Zhongyang Ding; Sha Xu; Zhenghua Gu; Guiyang Shi (Systems Microbiology and Biomanufacturing, 2022)

The Phenotypes and Mechanisms of NOTCH2NLC-Related GGC Repeat Expansion Disorders: a Comprehensive Review - Xiu-Rong Huang; Bei-Sha Tang; Peng Jin; Ji-Feng Guo (Molecular Neurobiology, 2022)

Five new records of Xanthidae (Crustacea: Brachyura) from Hainan Island, China - Ziming Yuan; Zhongli Sha; Wei Jiang (Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2022)

Evaluation of seed characteristics of selected rice lines in arkansas - Ozgur Azapoglu; Vibha Srivastava; Xueyan Sha; Ehsan Shakiba (Euphytica, 2022)

Inducible knockdown of Mycobacterium smegmatis MSMEG_2975 (glyoxalase II) affected bacterial growth, antibiotic susceptibility, biofilm, and transcriptome - Muhammad Haris; Changming Chen; Jing Wu; Muhammad Noman Ramzan; Ayaz Taj; Shanshan Sha; Hayan Ullah; Yufang Ma (Archives of Microbiology, 2022)

Biogeography of culturable marine bacteria from both poles reveals that ‘everything is not everywhere’ at the genomic level - Qi‐Long Qin; Zhi‐Bin Wang; Qian‐Qian Cha; Sha‐Sha Liu; Xue‐Bing Ren; Hui‐Hui Fu; Mei‐Ling Sun; Dian‐Li Zhao; Andrew McMinn; Yin Chen; Xiu‐Lan Chen; Yu‐Zhong Zhang; et al. (Environmental Microbiology, 2022)
Summary Based on 16S rRNA gene analyses, the same bacterial operational taxonomic units (OTUs) are common to both the Arctic and Antarctic oceans, supporting the concept ‘everything is everywhere’. However, whether the same OTUs from both poles have identical genomes, i.e. whether ‘everything is still everywhere’ at the genomic level has not yet been examined systematically. Here, we isolated, sequenced and compared the genomes of 45 culturable marine bacteria belonging to three genera of Salinibacterium , Psychrobacter and Pseudoalteromonas from both polar oceans. The bacterial strains with identical 16S rRNA genes were common to both poles in every genus, and four identical genomes were detected in the genus Salinibacterium from the Arctic region. However, no identical genomes were observed from opposite poles in this study. Our data, therefore, suggest that ‘everything is not everywhere’ at the genomic level. The divergence time between bacteria is hypothesized to exert a strong impact on the bacterial biogeography at the genomic level. The geographical isolation between poles was observed for recently diverged, highly similar genomes, but not for moderately similar genomes. This study thus improves our understanding of the factors affecting the genomic‐level biogeography of marine microorganisms isolated from distant locations.

Gene expression profiles in the brain of phenylketonuria mouse model reversed by the low phenylalanine diet therapy - Sha Hong; Tianwen Zhu; Simin Zheng; Xia Zhan; Feng Xu; Xuefan Gu; Lili Liang (Metabolic Brain Disease, 2021)

Hydrogen Sulfide Maintains Good Nutrition and Delays Postharvest Senescence in Postharvest Tomato Fruits by Regulating Antioxidative Metabolism - Ting-Ying Zhong; Gai-Fang Yao; Sha-Sha Wang; Ting-Ting Li; Ke-Ke Sun; Jun Tang; Zhong-Qin Huang; Feng Yang; Yan-Hong Li; Xiao-Yan Chen; Lan-Ying Hu; Hua Zhang; et al. (Journal of Plant Growth Regulation, 2021)

Effects of diurnal temperature range on cardiovascular disease hospital admissions in farmers in China’s Western suburbs - Qunwu Zha; Guorong Chai; Zhe-George Zhang; Yongzhong Sha; Yana Su (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

High chloroform removal using tannic acid to promote the activation of persulfate with Fe/Ni nanoparticles - Mingda Che; Zhiguo Chen; Sha Qiu; Mei Cui; Renliang Huang; Wei Qi; Zhimin He; Rongxin Su (Environmental Chemistry Letters, 2021)

Diel vertical migration of copepods and its environmental drivers in subtropical Bahamian blue holes - Yongcui Sha; Huan Zhang; Marcus Lee; Caroline Björnerås; Martin Škerlep; Raphael Gollnisch; Simon David Herzog; Gustaf Ekelund Ugge; Jerker Vinterstare; Nan Hu; Varpu Pärssinen; Kaj Hulthén; et al. (Aquatic Ecology, 2021)
Diel vertical migration (DVM) is the most common behavioral phenomenon in zooplankton, and numerous studies have evaluated DVM under strong seasonality at higher latitudes. Yet, our understanding of the environmental drivers of DVM at low latitudes, where seasonal variation is less pronounced, remains limited. Therefore, we here examined patterns of vertical distribution in copepods in six subtropical Bahamian blue holes with different food web structure and tested the role of several key environmental variables potentially affecting this behavior. Day and night samplings showed that copepods generally performed DVM, characterized by downward migration to deeper depths during the day and upward migration to surface waters at night. Across all blue holes, the daytime vertical depth distribution of calanoid copepods correlated positively with both predation risk and depth of food resources (Chlorophyll a ), but was less affected by ultraviolet radiation (UVR). A potential explanation is that since UVR is a continuous threat across seasons, zooplankton have established photoprotective pigmentation making them less vulnerable to this threat. The copepods also showed a size-structured depth segregation, where larger individuals were found at deeper depths during the day, which further strengthens the suggestion that predation is a major driver of DVM in these systems. Hence, in contrast to studies performed at higher latitudes, we show that despite the constant exposure to UVR, predator avoidance and food availability are the most pronounced drivers of copepod DVM at those low latitudes, suggesting that the main driver of DVM may vary among systems, but also systematically by latitude.

A Study of Gene Expression, Structure, and Contractility of iPSC-Derived Cardiac Myocytes from a Family with Heart Disease due to LMNA Mutation - Mehrsa Mehrabi; Tessa A. Morris; Zixuan Cang; Cecilia H. H. Nguyen; Yutong Sha; Mira N. Asad; Nyree Khachikyan; Taylor L. Greene; Danielle M. Becker; Qing Nie; Michael V. Zaragoza; Anna Grosberg (Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 2021)
Genetic mutations to the Lamin A/C gene ( LMNA ) can cause heart disease, but the mechanisms making cardiac tissues uniquely vulnerable to the mutations remain largely unknown. Further, patients with LMNA mutations have highly variable presentation of heart disease progression and type. In vitro patient-specific experiments could provide a powerful platform for studying this phenomenon, but the use of induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (iPSC-CM) introduces heterogeneity in maturity and function thus complicating the interpretation of the results of any single experiment. We hypothesized that integrating single cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) with analysis of the tissue architecture and contractile function would elucidate some of the probable mechanisms. To test this, we investigated five iPSC-CM lines, three controls and two patients with a (c.357-2A>G) mutation. The patient iPSC-CM tissues had significantly weaker stress generation potential than control iPSC-CM tissues demonstrating the viability of our in vitro approach. Through scRNA-seq, differentially expressed genes between control and patient lines were identified. Some of these genes, linked to quantitative structural and functional changes, were cardiac specific, explaining the targeted nature of the disease progression seen in patients. The results of this work demonstrate the utility of combining in vitro tools in exploring heart disease mechanics.

Sensitivity of South Asian summer monsoon simulation to land surface schemes in Weather Research and Forecasting model - Sha Lu; Hongchao Zuo (International Journal of Climatology, 2021)
The land surface scheme is crucial for the performance of regional climate models in dynamic downscaling application. In this study, we explore the sensitivity of the simulation with 10‐km resolution Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model to the land surface schemes in simulating South Asian summer monsoon. The WRF simulations for 19 summers from 2000 to 2018 are conducted with four different land surface schemes including Exp‐CLM4, Exp‐Noah‐MP, Exp‐PX, and Exp‐SSiB, with that the initial and boundary conditions for the WRF model simulations are provided from the NCEP‐FNL data. The ERAI reanalysis data, GHCN‐CAMS, and CRU gridded data are used to comprehensively evaluate the WRF simulations. Compared with verification data, the WRF model can reasonably capture the spatial patterns of summer mean large‐scale atmospheric circulation, 2‐m temperature and precipitation. The simulation results, however, are sensitive to the option of land surface scheme. The performance of Exp‐CLM4 and Exp‐SSiB is better than that of Exp‐Noah‐MP and Exp‐PX assessed by multivariable integrated evaluation (MVIE) method. To explore the dynamic and physical mechanisms behind the WRF model sensitivity to land surface schemes, the differences in the surface energy balance between the ensemble means Ens‐CLM4‐SSiB and Ens‐NoanMP‐PX are analysed in detail. The results illustrate that the intensity of the simulated sensible heat flux over South Asia is weaker in Ens‐CLM4‐SSiB than that in Ens‐NoahMP‐PX. The simulated wind fields are influenced due to the geostrophic adjustment process caused by large differences in geopotential height; thus, the simulations of 2‐m temperature and precipitation are all affected.

Altered albedo dominates the radiative forcing changes in a subtropical forest following an extreme snow event - Palingamoorthy Gnanamoorthy; Qinghai Song; Junbin Zhao; Yiping Zhang; Yuntong Liu; Wenjun Zhou; Liqing Sha; Zexin Fan; Pramit Kumar Deb Burman (Global Change Biology, 2021)
Subtropical forests are important ecosystems globally due to their extensive role in carbon sequestration. Extreme climate events are known to introduce disturbances in the ecosystem that cause long‐term changes in carbon balance and radiation reflectance. However, how these ecosystem function changes contribute to global warming in terms of radiative forcing (RF), especially in the years following a disturbance, still needs to be investigated. We studied an extreme snow event that occurred in a subtropical evergreen broadleaved forest in south‐western China in 2015 and used 9 years (2011–2019) of net ecosystem CO 2 exchange (NEE) and surface albedo ( α ) data to investigate the effect of the event on the ecosystem RF changes. In the year of the disturbance, leaf area index (LAI) declined by 40% and α by 32%. The annual NEE was −718 ± 128 g C m −2 as a sink in the pre‐disturbance years (2011–2014), but after the event, the sink strength dropped significantly by 76% (2015). Both the vegetation, indicated by LAI, and α recovered to pre‐disturbance levels in the fourth post‐disturbance year (2018). However, the NEE recovery lagged and occurred a year later in 2019, suggesting a more severe and lasting impact on the ecosystem carbon balance. Overall, the extreme event caused a positive (warming effect) net RF which was predominantly caused by changes in α (90%–93%) rather than those in NEE. This result suggests that, compared to the climate effect caused by forest carbon sequestration changes, the climate effect of α alterations can be more sensitive to vegetation damage induced by natural disturbances. Moreover, this study demonstrates the important role of vegetation recovery in driving canopy reflectance and ecosystem carbon balance during the post‐disturbance period, which determines the ecosystem feedbacks to the climate change.

MamZ protein plays an essential role in magnetosome maturation process of Magnetospirillum gryphiswaldense MSR-1 - Sha Wu; Qing Wang; Xu Wang; Ruixue Guo; Tongwei Zhang; Yongxin Pan; Feng Li; Ying Li (Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2021)

A Novel Coumarin-based Fluorescent Probe with Aggregation Induced Emission for Detecting CN− and its Applications in Bioimaging - Sha Deng; Qiao Lei; Junzhe Cai; Yuliang Jiang; Jian Shen (Journal of Fluorescence, 2021)

Poly(catechol) modified Fe3O4 magnetic nanocomposites with continuous high Fenton activity for organic degradation at neutral pH - Yani Hua; Chuan Wang; Sha Wang; Juan Xiao (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)