EasyMetagenome: A user-friendly and flexible pipeline for shotgun metagenomic analysis in microbiome research.

Shotgun metagenomics has become a pivotal technology in microbiome research, enabling in-depth analysis of microbial communities at both the high-resolution taxonomic and functional levels. This approach provides valuable insights of microbial diversity, interactions, and their roles in health and disease. However, the complexity of data processing and the need for reproducibility pose significant challenges to researchers.

Bryophytes adapt to open-pit coal mine environments by changing their functional traits in response to heavy metal-induced soil environmental changes.

Plants have unique adaptability to heavy metal pollution. However, the adaptation strategies of bryophytes are still unclear. In order to better understand the response of bryophytes to different heavy metal and the adaptation mechanisms of different species to heavy metal pollution, we studied soil physicochemical properties, distribution of heavy metal elements, ecological risk assessment and the community structure, functional characteristics of bryophytes in large open-pit coal mines in Inner Mongolia.

 (Pottiaceae, Musci), a new species from Changbai Mountain, China and its phylogenetic position based on molecular data.

Changbai Mountain, located in northeast China, is one of the areas with the most complete natural ecosystem preservation in China. A new species, C.Feng, J.

 (Pottiaceae, Bryophyta), a new species from Inner Mongolia steppe, China and its phylogenetic position, based on molecular data.

Inner Mongolia steppe is one of the suitable habitats for species and a new species, C. Feng & J. Kou from Manhan Mountain in semi-arid region in Inner Mongolia, China is described and illustrated.

Reinstatement of species rank for (Bryophyta, Grimmiaceae) based on molecular and morphological data.

The genus Hedw. has been considered taxonomically difficult because of its great morphological variability, and its treatments by different specialists have led to incongruent results. One of the debates in the genus is the species status of Kern, an Asian-European disjunct moss species that has been considered identical to Bruch & Schimp.

Mumps-containing vaccine effectiveness during outbreaks in two schools in Guangdong, China, 2012.

Introduction: Mumps-containing vaccine was licensed in the 1990s in China with a single dose administered routinely to children aged 18-24 months since 2008. However, an increase in reported mumps cases during the period 2009 to 2012 casts doubt on the effectiveness of a single-dose mumps vaccination. In March 2012, large numbers of mumps cases in a day-care centre and primary school in Guangdong Province were investigated to estimate the effectiveness of mumps-containing vaccine.

[Synthesis, structure and surface photovoltage spectrum of coordination supramolecule: [Cu(phen) (H2O)2. SO4]].

A novel transition metal coordination supramolecule [Cu(phen) (H2O)2.SO4] has been synthesized by hydrothermally method. The single crystal structure was determined by X-ray diffraction, and the complex was characterized by IR and UV-Vis-NIR spectra.