In mammals, the mutation of nipped-B-like protein (nipbl) leads to Cornelia de Lange Syndrome (CdLS), characterized by low birth weight, short stature, and structural abnormalities of the skeleton, heart, and gut. In Chinese tongue sole ( Cynoglossus semilaevis ), a typical marine fish exhibiting sexual size dimorphism, the nipbl homolog gene (nipped-B-like protein A (nipbla)) was also screened with female higher expression le...

Summary Microbial sulfate reduction is largely associated with anaerobic methane oxidation and alkane degradation in sulfate–methane transition zone (SMTZ) of deep‐sea cold seeps. How the sulfur cycling is mediated by microbes near SMTZ has not been fully understood. In this study, we detected a shallow SMTZ in three of eight sediment cores sampled from two cold seep areas in the South China Sea. One hundred ten genomes repres...