Estivation is a widespread survival strategy for dealing with adverse environmental conditions such as high temperature, low oxygen and lack of water or food, which has been reported across multiple vertebrate and invertebrate species. The sea cucumber Apostichopus japonicus is an excellent model organism to investigate the adaptive mechanism of estivation in marine invertebrates. In this study, a metabolomics approach based o...

Phytases, which belong to a special category of orthophosphoric monoester phosphohydrolases, degrade inositol hexaphosphate to produce lower-grade inositol phosphate derivatives and inorganic phosphate. Thus, phytases may improve phosphorus utilization, eliminate the anti-nutrient properties of phytic acid, and mitigate environmental pollution due to phosphorus contamination. In this study, we constructed a new root-specific e...