A Chromosomal-level genome assembly and annotation of fat greenling (Hexagrammos otakii).

Fat greenling (Hexagrammos otakii Jordan & Starks, 1895) is a valuable marine fish species, crucial for aquaculture in Northern China due to its high-quality meat and significant economic value. However, the aquaculture industry faces challenges such as trait degradation, early sexual maturity, and disease susceptibility, necessitating advanced genomic interventions for sustainable cultivation. This study presents the first chromosomal-level genome assembly of H.

Constructing a Conformer-Explorer Identity in Pandemic Narratives: A Qualitative Study of Chinese Emerging Adults.

Existing research indicates that social crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic reshaped young people's sense of self, but little is known about what identities emerging adults construct in their pandemic narratives. Following propositions of narrative identity and Terror Management Theory, this qualitative study investigated Chinese emerging adults' identity construction in their narratives of the national outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in late 2022. Participants were 62 college students invited to share their pandemic experiences with reflections.

Latent Profiles of Coronavirus-Related Health Literacy in Chinese Residents and Its Related Predictors.

Objectives: This study aimed to explore the latent profiles of coronavirus-related health literacy among Chinese residents and investigate whether some predictive factors are linked with different latent subgroups of coronavirus-related health literacy.

Design/setting: This study was a cross-sectional survey conducted among Chinese residents beginning in April 2020.

Participants: A total of 1610 Chinese residents aged 15 to 69 years were involved and were asked to complete the questionnaire about coronavirus-related health literacy, demographic information, and COVID-19 pandemic-related information.

Elder abuse in life stories: a qualitative study on rural Chinese older people.

Holding beliefs such as elder respect seems to make Chinese older adults vulnerable to feel abused. This study investigated how Chinese older people in the countryside perceive abuse and make sense of their abusive experiences while telling their life stories. Following a narrative approach, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 17 older persons living in a rural village, Yunnan province, China, collected their life stories, and paid special attention to their telling of abuses.

Denitrification performance evaluation and kinetics analysis with mariculture solid wastes (MSW) derived carbon source in marine recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS).

Biological denitrification using mariculture solid wastes (MSW) carbon source is a promising solution for removing nitrate (NO-N) and disposing MSW in marine recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS). To enhance denitrification performance, heating (HT), rhamnolipid (RL), alkali (AL), thermophilic bacteria (TB) pre-treated MSW acidogenic fermentation effluents were prepared as carbon sources. Profiles of soluble organics in four types of fermentation effluents were first evaluated.

Elucidating salinity adaptation and shock loading on denitrification performance: Focusing on microbial community shift and carbon source evaluation.

To understand the denitrification efficiency and microbial community shift with increasing salinity in salinity adaptation and shock loading process, nitrate (NO-N), nitrite (NO-N) and chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal efficiencies were monitored feeding acetate and primary sludge fermentation liquid. During adaptation process, salinity had little effect on NO-N removal efficiency (>99.0%) with acetate-fed, while for fermentation liquid-fed, it decreased to around 97% at high salinity (>2.

Heterotrophic denitrification strategy for marine recirculating aquaculture wastewater treatment using mariculture solid wastes fermentation liquid as carbon source: Optimization of COD/NO-N ratio and hydraulic retention time.

Heterotrophic denitrification using mariculture solid wastes (MSW) fermentation liquid as carbon source is an economically and environmentally sustainable strategy for NO-N removal in marine recycling aquaculture systems (RAS). The optimization of COD/NO-N ratio (C/N) and hydraulic retention times (HRT) with respect to MSW fermentation liquid driven denitrification for marine RAS wastewater treatment was investigated. The optimum C/N of 8 and HRT of 6 h for heterotrophic denitrification was obtained with NO-N removal efficiency of 97.

Transcriptome analysis of immune response in fat greenling (Hexagrammos otakii) against Vibrio harveyi infection.

Fat greenling (Hexagrammos otakii) is an important aquaculture fish species in northern China. Unfortunately, Vibrio infections have caused considerable losses to the fat greenling aquaculture industry. However, the study on immune response of fat greenling against Vibrio species has not been reported yet.

Psychometric structure of the Chinese Multiethnic Adolescent Cultural Identity Questionnaire.

In this study, we used the Chinese Multiethnic Adolescent Cultural Identity Questionnaire (CMACIQ) and collected valid data from 1,036 participants to systematically examine the mental model of cultural identity in Chinese multiethnic adolescents. Exploratory factor analysis and structural equation modeling were performed on the data to discover the factor structure and dimensions of cultural identity. The psychometric properties of the scale were rigorously validated in 2,744 new multiethnic participants from 5 native ethnic groups in Yunnan province in China.

The effect of different acclimation temperatures on the prophenoloxidase system and other defence parameters in Litopenaeus vannamei.

Water temperature changes (higher and lower than 24 degrees C) were shown to have a significant effect on dopamine (DA) concentration, haemocyte count and the proPO system in the white shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei. No significant difference in any of the parameters was observed in the control group. DA concentration in haemolymph in the experimental groups increased to a peak value at 0.