Publications by authors named "Qiao-Mu Hu"
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- Swamp eel, an important aquaculture species in China, was the subject of a study aimed at characterizing Simple Sequence Repeats (SSRs) in its genome and developing SSR markers for breeding purposes.
- Using MISA software, the study identified 364,802 SSRs, with a predominance of mononucleotide repeats, and created a total of 287,189 primer pairs to find polymorphic SSRs.
- The findings revealed a high level of genetic diversity in one breeding population, which could be leveraged for future genetic mapping and breeding programs.
The swamp eel (Monopterus albus) is one economically important fish in China and South-Eastern Asia and a good model species to study sex inversion. There are different genetic lineages and multiple local strains of swamp eel in China, and one local strain of M. albus with deep yellow and big spots has been selected for consecutive selective breeding due to superiority in growth rate and fecundity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGenetic and codon usage bias analyses of major capsid protein gene in Ranavirus.
Infect Genet Evol
October 2020
The Ranavirus (one genus of Iridovidae family) is an emerging pathogen that infects fish, amphibian, and reptiles, and causes great economical loss and ecological threat to farmed and wild animals globally. The major capsid protein (MCP) has been used as genetic typing marker and as target to design vaccines. Herein, the codon usage pattern of 73 MCP genes of Ranavirus and Lymphocystivirus are studied by calculating effective number of codons (ENC), relative synonymous codon usage (RSCU), codon adaptation index (CAI), and relative codon deoptimization index (RCDI), and similarity index (SiD).
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- Animal egg coats are made up of glycoproteins known as zona pellucida (ZP) proteins, which are classified into six subfamilies based on vertebrate genes, but show low similarity with invertebrate ZP genes.
- A study revealed varying numbers of ZP genes across 47 vertebrate species and five invertebrate species, but many other species lacked identifiable ZP genes altogether.
- Phylogenetic analyses indicate that vertebrate ZP genes likely evolved from three independent origins and are not directly related to invertebrate ZP genes, suggesting a complex evolutionary history for these reproductive genes.