Publications by authors named "Jinxian 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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As the most consumed tea in the world, all kinds of black tea are developed from Wuyi black tea. In this study, quality components, regulatory gene expression, and key enzyme activity during the processing were analyzed to illustrate the taste formation of WBT. Withering mainly affected the content of amino acids, while catechins and tea pigments were most influenced by rolling and the pre-metaphase of fermentation.

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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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Understanding of the environmental behaviors of microplastics is limited by a lack of knowledge about how photoaging influences biofilm formation on microplastics in soil. Here, original microplastics (OMPs) and photoaged-microplastics (AMPs) were incubated in soil to study the effect of photoaging on formation and characteristics of biofilm on the poly (butylene succinate) microplastics. Because photoaging decreased the hydrophobicity of the microplastic, the biomass of biofilm on the OMPs was nearly twice that on the AMPs in the early stage of incubation.

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Unraveling the drivers controlling the assembly and stability of functional communities is a central issue in ecology. Despite extensive research and data, relatively little attention has been paid on the importance of biotic factors and, in particular, on the trophic interaction for explaining the assembly of microbial community. Here, we examined the diversity, assembly, and stability of nirS-, nirK-, and nosZ-type denitrifying bacterial communities in copper-tailings drainages of the Shibahe tailings reservoir in Zhongtiao Mountain, China's.

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Soil bacterial and fungal communities play key roles in the degradation of organic contaminants, and their structure and function are regulated by bottom-up and top-down factors. Microbial ecological effects of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and trophic interactions among protozoa and bacteria/fungi in PAH-polluted soils have yet to be determined. We investigated the trophic interactions and structure of the microbiome in PAH-contaminated wasteland and farmland soils.

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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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The key point for an experienced craftsman to repair broken objects effectively is that he must know about them deeply. Similarly, we believe that a model can capture rich geometry information from a shape/scene and generate discriminative representations if it is able to find distorted parts of shapes/scenes and restore them. Inspired by this observation, we propose a novel self-supervised 3D learning paradigm named learning by restoring broken shapes/scenes (collectively called 3D geometry).

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Root-associated microbiomes are essential for the ecological function of the root system. However, their assembly mechanisms in wetland are poorly understood. In this study, we explored and compared the ecological processes of bacterial and fungal communities in water, bulk soil, rhizosphere soil, and root endosphere niches for 3 developmental stages of at different wetland sites, and assessed the potential functions of root endosphere microbiomes with function prediction.

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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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Background: High mobility group box protein 1 (HMGB1) is considered as a kind of sterile inflammatory mediators, which is an overexpression in patients with unexplained recurrent spontaneous abortion (URSA). Specific targeting effect of aspirin on HMGB1 has been revealed. Our previous studies have explored the application of HMGB1 as a therapeutic target of aspirin in URSA disease of mice model and human, but the dynamic process of aspirin downregulating HMGB1 concentration has not been demonstrated.

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Butafulvene is a constitutional isomer of benzene, comprising a cyclobutene skeleton bearing two exocyclic conjugated methylene units. As a result of the intrinsic high strain energy and anti-aromaticity, the preparation of butafulvene compounds has been a fundamental issue for the development of butafulvene chemistry. Here an efficient palladium-catalysed coupling protocol involving propargylic compounds has been developed, providing a solid and versatile strategy for the rapid assembly of symmetric butafulvene derivatives.

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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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Microbial degradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) is the major channel for their decontamination from different environments. Aerobic and anaerobic biodegradations of PAHs in batch reactors with single or multiple bacterial strains have been intensively studied, but the cooperative mechanism of functional PAH-degrading populations at the community level under field conditions remains to be explored. We determined the composition of PAH-degrading populations in the bacterial community and PAHs in farmland and wasteland soils contaminated by coking plants using high-throughput sequencing and high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), respectively.

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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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Recurrent spontaneous abortion (RSA) is a common complication of pregnancy that affects the physical and mental health of pregnant women, and approximately 50% of the mechanisms are unclear. Our previous studies have found that high mobility group box 1 (HMGB1) molecules are highly expressed at the maternal-fetal interface of unexplained recurrent spontaneous abortion (URSA) patients. The purpose of this study was to further detect the expression of HMGB1 and pyroptosis in decidual tissue of URSA patients, and explore the potential mechanism of the protective role of HMGB1 in URSA patients and mouse model.

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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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Bacterial communities have been described as early indicators of both regional and global climatic change and play a critical role in the global biogeochemical cycle. Exploring the mechanisms that determine the diversity patterns of bacterial communities and how they share different habitats along environmental gradients are, therefore, a central theme in microbial ecology research. We characterized the diversity patterns of bacterial communities in Pipahai Lake (PPH), Mayinghai Lake (MYH), and Gonghai Lake (GH), three subalpine natural lakes in Ningwu County, Shanxi, China, and analyzed the distribution of their shared and unique taxa (indicator species).

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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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