Publications by authors named "Weiqiang Pan"

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  • Ranaviruses infect a variety of species including fish, amphibians, and reptiles, causing serious economic and ecological issues, with occurrences in at least 175 species worldwide.
  • The study focuses on the mandarin fish ranavirus (MRV), finding a methylation level of 16.04% in its genome, which is suggested to be crucial for viral replication.
  • Additionally, the research proposes that ranaviruses could have four distinct evolutionary lineages and highlights the need for a complete phylogenetic tree and further investigation into the impact of genomic methylation on viral evolution and disease control.
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Background: Infectious spleen and kidney necrosis virus (ISKNV) poses a significant threat to aquaculture sustainability, particularly affecting mandarin fish () and causing significant economic losses.

Methods: To address this challenge, this study developed an ISKNV Δ vaccine strain, where the gene was knocked out. Infection assays conducted at 28 °C showed that the knocking out the gene decreased the virulence of ISKNV and reduced lethality against mandarin fish by 26.

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  • - Iridoviruses are large DNA viruses that infect both invertebrates and cold-blooded vertebrates, with their unique hypermethylated genomes still not fully understood.
  • - The study focuses on the Infectious spleen and kidney necrosis virus (ISKNV), finding that its methylation level is 23.44%, crucial for viral replication but not for gene expression.
  • - Results show that hypomethylated ISKNV boosts immune responses, indicating that increased methylation might help the virus evade the immune system, shedding light on the role of genome methylation in viral infections.
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Global aquaculture production yielded a record of 122.9 million tons in 2022. However, ~10% of farmed aquatic animal production is lost each year due to various infectious diseases, resulting in substantial economic waste.

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Infectious diseases seriously threaten sustainable aquaculture development, resulting in more than $10 billion in economic losses annually. Immersion vaccines are emerging as the key technology for aquatic disease prevention and control. Here, a safe and efficacious candidate immersion vaccine strain (Δ) of infectious spleen and kidney necrosis virus (ISKNV), in which the and genes were knocked out by homologous recombination, is described.

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Viral diseases are a significant risk to the aquaculture industry. Transient receptor potential vanilloid 4 (TRPV4) has been reported to be involved in regulating viral activity in mammals, but its regulatory effect on viruses in teleost fish remains unknown. Here, the role of the TRPV4-DEAD box RNA helicase 1 (DDX1) axis in viral infection was investigated in mandarin fish (Siniperca chuatsi).

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During underground space exploitation in the urbanization process, numerous foundation pits were constructed where a diaphragm wall was often used as a retaining structure and waterproof curtain. Due to complicated engineering geological conditions or improper construction, diaphragm walls and wall joints often exhibit quality defects. Groundwater leaked from these quality defects to foundation pits during excavation, endangering the safety of the pit and surrounding facilities.

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DDX41 is an intracellular DNA sensor that evokes type I interferon (IFN-I) production via the adaptor stimulator of interferon gene (STING), triggering innate immune responses against viral infection. However, the regulatory mechanism of the DDX41-STING pathway in teleost fish remains unclear. The mandarin fish () is a cultured freshwater fish species that is popular in China because of its high market value.

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Leakage in the diaphragm wall is difficult to detect in deep foundation pits. In this study, the conceptual model of active and passive thermal leak detection methods was proposed according to the occurrence of temperature field anomalies caused by seepage. Experiments were performed using a heating system and an optical fiber temperature measurement system to verify the thermal leakage detection systems.

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Groundwater level has to be lowered during deep excavation. A vertical curtain is usually adopted to control the drawdown inside and outside a foundation pit in a built-up area. However, the cost and working difficulty increases substantially with the rise in depth of vertical curtains.

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Aquaculture provides important food, nutrition, and income sources for humans. However, aquaculture industry is seriously threatened by viral diseases. Infectious spleen and kidney necrosis virus (ISKNV) disease causes high mortality and economic losses to the fish culture industry in Asia and has been listed as a certifiable disease by the International Epizootic Office.

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High delicate particulate matter (PM) concentration can seriously reduce air quality, destroy the environment, and even jeopardize human health. Accordingly, accurate prediction for PM plays a vital role in taking precautions against upcoming air ambient pollution incidents. However, due to the disturbance of seasonal and nonlinear characteristics in the raw series, pronounced forecasts are confronted with tremendous handicaps, even though for seasonal grey prediction models in the preceding researches.

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Mandarin fish (Siniperca chuatsi) is a significant cultured species with high added value in China. With the expansion of farming, diseases of mandarin fish such as Infectious spleen and kidney necrosis virus (ISKNV) diseases are becoming more and more serious. Human endogenous retrovirus subfamily H long terminal repeat associating protein 2 (HHLA2) is a type 1 transmembrane molecule with three extracellular Ig domains (IgV-IgC-IgV) and plays important roles in the T cell proliferation and tumorigenesis.

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