Publications by authors named "Ding-Ding Fan"
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- The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) is a key area for studying how high-altitude environments affect fish genome evolution and adaptation, especially for the critically endangered ancient fish species endemic to the region.
- Recent findings indicate that genome alterations, such as major bursts of transposons and expansions in histone genes, correlate with significant geological and climatic shifts during the QTP's formation, highlighting the impact of past events on genetic evolution.
- Population studies reveal that ancestral fish populations experienced two major declines in number around 2.6 million and 10,000 years ago, aligning with major glacial periods, suggesting that past environmental changes severely affected fish habitats, limiting migration and resulting in reduced genetic diversity.
Fish morphological phenotypes are important resources in artificial breeding, functional gene mapping, and population-based studies in aquaculture and ecology. Traditional morphological measurement of phenotypes is rather expensive in terms of time and labor. More importantly, manual measurement is highly dependent on operational experience, which can lead to subjective phenotyping results.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe large yellow croaker Larimichthys crocea (L. crocea) is one of the most economically important marine fish in China and East Asian countries. It also exhibits peculiar behavioral and physiological characteristics, especially sensitive to various environmental stresses, such as hypoxia and air exposure.
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- Chinese tree shrews are being explored as experimental models for various human disorders, such as depression and hepatitis infections.
- An annotated genome sequence for the Chinese tree shrew has been made publicly available, highlighting its genetic relevance.
- Phylogenomic analysis shows strong similarities between tree shrews and primates, indicating both shared and unique features that support their use in biomedical research.