Publications by authors named "Wenqi Rong"
The marine environment presents challenges for wound healing in cetaceans, despite their remarkable recovery abilities with minimal infections or complications. However, the molecular mechanism underlying this efficient wound healing remains underexplored. To better understand the molecular mechanisms behind wound healing in cetaceans, we investigated the evolutionary patterns of 37 wound healing-related genes in representative mammals.
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- Mammals have developed different kidney shapes over time, and scientists are trying to understand how these changes happened and why.
- They found that the simplest kidney type, called the unilobar kidney, is what all mammals originally had and that larger mammals or those living in water often have a more complex kidney called the discrete multirenculate kidney.
- By studying 45 genes linked to kidney problems, researchers identified 12 important genes that might have helped these complex kidneys evolve, and they also found changes in some genes that are important for how certain body parts grow and develop.