Publications by authors named "Li-Qun Liang"

High alkaline environment can lead to respiratory alkalosis and ammonia toxification to freshwater fish. However, the Amur ide (Leuciscus waleckii), which inhabits an extremely alkaline lake in China with titratable alkalinity up to 53.57 mM (pH 9.

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Current water warming and freshwater acidification undoubtedly affect the life of aquatic animals especially ammonotelic teleost by altering their physiological responses. The effect of temperature (28 °C vs 32 °C) and pH (7 vs. 5) on the metabolic compromising strategies of Hoven's carp () was investigated in this study.

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This study was conducted to investigate the energy mobilisation preference and ionoregulation pattern of female tilapia, Oreochromis sp. living in different environments. Three different treatments of tilapia as physiology compromising model were compared; tilapia cultured in recirculating aquaculture system (RAS as Treatment I-RAS), tilapia cultured in open water cage (Treatment II-Cage) and tilapia transferred from cage and cultured in RAS (Treatment III-Compensation).

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is one of the shellfish species with high aquaculture value due to its increasing market demand. However, the comparatively low production volume compared to demand coupled with the rapid decline of the natural environment, consequently, drives the potential depletion of the wild population. The decrease in water pH related to anthropogenic pollution is one of the most critical factors affecting the early life performances of .

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Influx of activated neutrophils into the lungs is the histopathologic hallmark of acute lung injury (ALI) after intestinal ischemia/reperfusion (I/R). Neutrophils can release DNA and granular proteins to form cytotoxic neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs), which promotes bystander tissue injury. However, whether NETs are responsible for the remote ALI after intestinal I/R and the mechanisms underlying the dissemination of harmful gut-derived mediators to the lungs are unknown.

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The Amur ide () is a fish in the Cyprinidae family. Compared with other Amur ide living in freshwater ecosystems, the Amur ide population in Lake Dali Nor of China is famous for its high tolerance to the alkaline conditions of 54 mM (pH 9.6).

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is a freshwater fish that is known to inhabit the Dali Nor Lake, Inner Mongolia, China. The water in this lake has an HCO /CO concentration of 54 mM (pH 9.6) and a salinity of 0.

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The adaptation of fish to low temperatures is the result of long-term evolution. Amur carp (Cyprinus carpio haematopterus) survives low temperatures (0-4°C) for six months per year. Therefore, we chose this fish as a model organism to study the mechanisms of cold-adaptive responses using high-throughput sequencing technology.

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The strategies by which freshwater teleosts maintain acid-base homeostasis under alkaline stress are attractive and have been explored for a long time. In this study, a cyprinid fish that tolerates extremely alkaline environments (pH 9.6), Leuciscus waleckii, was used as a model to explore the molecular mechanisms of acid-base regulation.

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The complete mitochondrial genome of Carassius carassius was determined to be 16,597 bp long circular molecule with a typical gene arrangement of vertebrate mitochondrial DNA. Its control region contains two copies of unit (TTCYCAATATAA) at 3' ends, which has never been reported before for Carassius species. Phylogenetic trees based on 12 protein-coding genes on heavy strand confirmed that the complete mtDNA sequence of crucian carp was reported in this study for the first time.

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Thirty 2-year old transgenic carp individuals with growth hormone gene of salmon were randomly selected to study the affecting degree of their phenotypic traits on their body mass by the methods of correlation and path analyses, with 30 individuals of non-transgenic carp as the control, aimed to ascertain the main phenotypic parameters affecting the body mass of the transgenic and non-transgenic carps. The test phenotypic traits were total length, body length, body height, least height of caudal peduncle, length of caudal peduncle, length of head, snout length, eyes horizontal diameter, inter-orbital distance, and body depth. Correlation analysis showed that for both of the transgenic and non-transgenic carps, most of the test phenotypic parameters were significantly correlated to body mass (P<0.

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In this study, 26 candidate genes were quantified and normalized in the brain cDNA of common carp (Cyprinus carpio) at 23°C and 6°C using double-standard curve method of real-time quantitative PCR. The results showed that five candidates up-regulated in the samples at 6°C (P<0.01) and quantified 2.

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Expressed sequence tags (ESTs) are parts of complementary DNAs (cDNAs) with certain gene function.It provides us more information than other neutral markers. The association of EST markers with phenotypes can increase our understanding of the biochemical pathways and mechanisms affecting economically important traits.

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Cold tolerance is one of the major economic characters in fish. In order to discuss the cold tolerance of large yellow croaker (Pseudosciaena crocea R.), fifteen fluorescent dye-labeled microsatellite markers were applied to detect genetic differences between F1 offsprings of cold tolerance group and normal group of large yellow croaker by SSR-PCR.

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The reciprocal intergeneric hybrids between common wheat and Roegneria kamoji were successfully obtained by means of embryo culture. Morphology, chromosome pairing behavior at meiosis, fertility, and resistance to scab of the hybrid F1 and BC1 were studied. The results showed that the morphology of the reciprocal intergeneric hybrids F1 between R.

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A common carp gynogenetic line including 44 individuals derived from the cross Barbless carp x Hebao-cold tolerance red carp was used to construct a linkage map using 445 markers (265 AFLP markers, 127 SSR markers, 37 EST-SSR markers and 16 RAPD markers). Quantitative traits loci (QTLs) associated with head length, eye diameter, and eye cross were identified by composite interval mapping of the software WinQTLCart2.5.

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Ten tri- and tetranucleotide microsatellite DNA markers were isolated and characterized from common carp (Cyprinus carpio L.) to estimate genetic potential. These markers were tested in the samples from two closely related carp populations (Cyprinus carpio var.

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The natural gynogenetic triploid silver crucian carp (Carassius autatus gibeblio Bloch) provides a good system for studying evolutional genetics of the unisexual and polyploidy vertebrate. Microsatellites are abundant across genomes and show high levels of polymorphism and mutational rate, so they have been widely used for studying evolutional biology. In this study, the mutation rate and pattern at 33 microsatellite loci of silver crucian carp were investigated.

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The common carp recombinant inbred lines (RIL) derived from the cross Barbless carp x Hebao-cold tolerance red carp were used as experimental materials in this study. Based on the linkage map constructed with simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers using this RIL population, marker regression and complexity interval mapping were analyzed by Windows Map Manager2.0 software.

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In this paper, population genetic variability and genetic structure of five populations of an important cultivation species, mirror carp (Cyprinus carpio L.) were analyzed using 30 microsatellite loci. The observed (Ho) and expected (He) heterozygosity values, polymorphic information content (PIC) and number of effective alleles (Ae) were all determined.

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In this article, population variations and genetic structures of two populations of northern sheatfish (Silurus soldatovi) were analyzed using 24 microsatellite loci enriched from southern catfish (S. meriaionalis Chen) by magnetic beads. Gene frequency (P), observed heterozygosity (Ho), expected heterozygosity (He), polymorphism information contents (PIC), and number of effective alleles (Ne) were determined.

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Seventeen microsatellite markers of Aristichthys nobilis previously discovered by our lab were selected to analyze the genetic diversity and characteristics of two populations of Aristichthys nobilis from Jiangxi and Sichuan provinces. The following parameters were calculated: heterozygosity, polymorphism information content (PIC), valid allele number, allele frequency, genetic distance, genetic similarity coefficient, Hardy-Weinberg balance deflection index and so on. Results show that there are 4 monomorphic and 13 polymorphic markers among the 17 selected microsatellite markers.

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