Publications by authors named "Jin-Xian Liu"

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  • The short-snout icefish is an economically significant species in China, and understanding its sex determination is vital for conservation and aquaculture efforts.
  • Research identified a specific region on chromosome 2 that plays a crucial role in determining sex, revealing significant genetic differences between males and females.
  • A new rapid genetic method based on PCR allows for the identification of the fish's sex at any developmental stage, aiding in both research and practical applications in breeding.
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  • Littorinid snails, living in tough intertidal zones, serve as great models for studying genetic adaptations and karyotype evolution from their common ancestor with bilaterians.
  • Researchers created high-quality genome assemblies for two types of littorinid snails, revealing many genes linked to their survival in fluctuating environments, including those related to immune response and stress management.
  • The study found that the karyotype of littorinid snails has remained largely unchanged from the common ancestor they share with other mollusks, preserving important genetic linkages for over 500 million years, making them crucial for understanding early evolution.
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  • The Japanese eel, an important species for conservation, is known for its long migrations, but little is understood about its genetics related to this behavior.
  • Researchers created a detailed genome assembly and sequenced 218 individuals, discovering that certain genes related to exercise and navigation show strong signs of selection for long-distance migration.
  • They found low genetic diversity likely due to past population declines and identified a single panmictic population, with candidate genes linked to development and circadian rhythms, which can aid in conservation strategies.
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  • The study focuses on the genetic patterns of a declining seagrass species in the Northwestern Pacific, and its introduction along North America's Pacific coast, to guide conservation efforts.
  • Researchers analyzed over 1,000 individuals from 34 populations using genetic markers to explore the phylogeography and population structure.
  • Findings revealed significant genetic divergence between northern and southern native populations, with nonnative populations tracing their origin to Japan, which may aid in predicting future expansions of the species.
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Investor sentiment plays a crucial role in the stock market, and in recent years, numerous studies have aimed to predict future stock prices by analyzing market sentiment obtained from social media or news. This study investigates the use of investor sentiment from social media, with a focus on Stocktwits, a social media platform for investors. However, using investor sentiment on Stocktwits to predict stock price movements may be challenging due to a lack of user-initiated sentiment data and the limitations of existing sentiment analyzers, which may inaccurately classify neutral comments.

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Microbial communities are the key component to maintaining the structure and function of forest soil ecosystems. The vertical distribution of bacterial communities on the soil profile has an important impact on forest soil carbon pools and soil nutrient cycling. Using Illumina MiSeq high-throughput sequencing technology, we analyzed the characteristics of bacterial communities in the humus layer and 0-80 cm soil layer of in Luya Mountain, China, to explore the driving mechanisms affecting the structure of bacterial communities in soil profiles.

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To reveal the assembly mechanisms of soil protozoan community in subalpine forest ecosystems, we analyzed the composition and diversity of protozoan communities and their drivers at the six strata (the litter profile, humus profile, 0-10 cm, 10-20 cm, 20-40 cm and 40-80 cm) of soil profiles in subalpine forest in Luya Mountain using Illumina Miseq high-throughput sequencing technology. The results showed that protozoa in the soil profiles belonged to 335 genera, 206 families, 114 orders, 57 classes, 21 phyla, and 8 kingdoms. There were five dominant phyla (relative abundance >1%) and 10 dominant families (relative abundance >5%).

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Although soil microbes play a key role in grassland ecosystem functioning, the response of their diversity to grassland degradation has not been fully investigated. Here, we used shotgun metagenomic sequencing to analyze the characteristics and influencing factors of soil microbial taxonomic and functional diversity at four different degradation stages[i.e.

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Planktonic and epiphytic bacterial communities play an important role in wetland nitrogen pollutant removal and water purification, yet their community dynamics are far from understood compared with those of the wetland soil bacterial community. Taking the planktonic bacterial community in the Yuguqiao constructed wetland and the epiphytic bacterial community on the leaf surface of the common submerged plant as the research objects, the composition, structure, and functional diversity of planktonic and epiphytic bacterial communities were analyzed using high-throughput sequencing. The results showed that the compositions of the planktonic and epiphytic bacterial communities were significantly different, with more heterotrophic and denitrifying bacteria present in the epiphytic bacterial community than in the planktonic bacterial community.

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Grassland degradation has become a worldwide ecological problem. Although soil microorganisms, as the main participants in the process of grassland degradation, play a key role in maintaining ecosystem function and improving soil productivity, little is known about the changes in microbial communities caused by grassland degradation and their relationship with soil properties and plant communities. In this study, we used Illumina MiSeq sequencing to analyze the soil fungal communities of subalpine meadow soil at four different degradation stages[i.

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The cottids (Cottidae) are a taxonomically diverse and ecologically important component of many marine and freshwater ecosystems. Despite recent breakthroughs in long-read sequencing, high quality genomic resources are still limited for studies of ecological and evolutionary processes in cottids. Here, we generated a high-quality, chromosome-scale genome assembly (521.

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Understanding connectivity over different spatial and temporal scales is fundamental for managing of ecological systems. However, controversy exists for wintertime ecological connectivity between the Yangtze River Estuary (YRE) and inner southwestern Yellow Sea. Here, we investigated ecological connectivity between the YRE and inner southwestern Yellow Sea in wintertime by precisely pinpointing the source of the newly colonized populations of a winter-spawning rocky intertidal invertebrate, (Philippi, 1844), on artificial structures along the coast of the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) using mitochondrial ND6 sequences and microsatellite data.

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Background: The clearhead icefish, Protosalanx hyalocranius, is an economically important fishery species in China. Since 1980s, P. hyalocranius was widely introduced into lakes and reservoirs of northern China for aquaculture.

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The nearly complete sequence of the mitochondrial genome of the periwinkle is presented. This is the first mitochondrial genome of the genus and the fifth sequenced Littorinidae. The mitogenome of is 16,320 bp in size, with 37 genes and one partial control region.

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Rapid adaptation to novel environments may drive changes in genomic regions through natural selection. However, the genetic architecture underlying these adaptive changes is still poorly understood. Using population genomic approaches, we investigated the genomic architecture that underlies rapid parallel adaptation of Coilia nasus to fresh water by comparing four freshwater-resident populations with their ancestral anadromous population.

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Identification of sex determination system and sex-determining genes have important implications in conservation, ecology and evolution. However, much remains to be discovered about the evolution of different sexual determination systems in teleost fishes, of which the mechanisms of sex determination are remarkably variable. In the present study, the whole genomes of 20 males and 20 females of a Salangid fish, Protosalanx hyalocranius, were sequenced and genome wide association analyses were conducted to uncover its sex determination system and putative sex-determining genes.

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Human activities and climate change cause the degradation of subalpine lake ecosystems, which induce the shift of microbial community structure. The spatio-temporal dynamics and the diversity maintenance mechanisms of bacterial communities in Gonghai Lake in Ningwu, Shanxi, were investigated by using Q-PCR and DGGE. The results showed that the temperature), pH, dissolved oxygen, electrical conductivity salinity, and ammonium nitrogen (NH) contestation were significantly different among the different sampling depths during different months.

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Exploring factors shaping genetic structure of marine fish is challenging due to fewer barriers to gene flow in the ocean. However, genome-wide sequence data can greatly enhance our ability to delineate previously unidentified population structure as well as potential adaptive divergence. The small yellow croaker () is a commercially important fish species with high gene flow and its overwintering populations experience heterogeneous environment, suggesting possible population differentiation and adaptive divergence.

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Understanding the patterns of genetic diversity and adaptation across species' range is crucial to assess its long-term persistence and determine appropriate conservation measures. The impacts of human activities on the genetic diversity and genetic adaptation to heterogeneous environments remain poorly understood in the marine realm. The roughskin sculpin (Trachidermus fasciatus) is a small catadromous fish, and has been listed as a second-class state protected aquatic animal since 1988 in China.

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The composition and diversity of fungal communities are essential to maintain the ecosystem balance of subalpine lakes. The aquatic fungal communities at different depths from the subalpine Pipahai (PPH, 0, 2, 4 m), Mayinghai (MYH, 0, 2, 4, 6 m), and Gonghai (GH, 0, 2, 4, 6, 8 m) lakes were studied. In addition to that, the distribution pattern and diversity maintenance mechanism (determination process vs.

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The seagrass Zostera japonica Asch. & Graebn. is among the few seagrass species that thrive both in temperate and tropical intertidal zones.

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The maintaining mechanism of community diversity is the core of community ecology. The mine tailing is a good field for studying on the underlying mechanism of community diversity, as a kind of original bare land with heavy metal pollution, where the physicochemical characteristics of soil change with the restoration periods. We examined the driving forces for bacterial community diversity based on the investigation of edaphic factors, plant community, and bacterial communities in Shibahe copper mine tailing, Shanxi.

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The relative importance of the deterministic versus stochastic processes underlying community dynamics has long been a central theme in community ecology, and is intensively debated in the field. Microbial communities play key roles in nutrient cycling and the flow of energy in ecosystems. The research on the structural dynamics of microbial community will provide data and theoretical support for understanding the assembly mechanisms of community, and for predicting the dynamics of microbial community under environmental stress.

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Environmental selection and dispersal limitation are two basic processes underlying community assembly. The relative importance of those two processes differs across scales, community identities, and community types. The processes responsible for structuring microbial communities in soil of temperate subalpine forest are poorly understood.

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Restriction site-associated DNA (RAD) sequencing is revolutionizing studies in ecological, evolutionary and conservation genomics. However, the assembly of paired-end RAD reads with random-sheared ends is still challenging, especially for non-model species with high genetic variance. Here, we present an efficient optimized approach with a pipeline software, RADassembler, which makes full use of paired-end RAD reads with random-sheared ends from multiple individuals to assemble RAD contigs.

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