Publications by authors named "Xin-Yu DU"

Objective To assess the value of the MRI-based ovarian-adnexal reporting and data system (O-RADS MRI) for the diagnosis of adnexal masses. Methods A total of 407 patients who underwent dynamic contrast enhancement (DCE)-MRI and pathological examination (gold standard) at the Department of Radiology,Central Hospital of Wuhan between May 2017 and December 2022 were enrolled in this study.Two radiologists performed the O-RADS MRI scoring of adnexal masses according to MRI features and calculated the malignancy rate of adnexal masses by O-RADS MRI score,enhancement type,and mass type.

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  • * Our new CFCOOH/CFCHNH protocol successfully produced 16 different high-quality single-crystal COFs that can be analyzed using regular laboratory x-ray diffraction, achieving high resolution (up to 0.79 angstroms).
  • * The resulting structures show unique features like interpenetrated networks and allow detailed studies of how conformational isomers and host-guest interactions evolve at the atomic level.
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Introduction: Through its long-term evolution and development, human society has gradually formed stable and effective norms to maintain normal social production and social activities. Altruistic punishment is indispensable in maintaining social norms. Altruistic punishment includes second-party and third-party punishment, and third-party punishment refers to punishing violators by unbiased bystanders who have not suffered damage to their interests.

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The construction of an all-in-one catalyst, in which the photosensitizer and the transition metal site are close to each other, is important for improving the efficiency of metallaphotoredox catalysis. However, the development of convenient synthetic strategies for the precise construction of an all-in-one catalyst remains a challenging task due to the requirement of precise installation of the catalytic sites. Herein, we have successfully established a facile bottom-up strategy for the direct synthesis of Ni(II)-incorporated covalent organic framework (COF), named LZU-713@Ni, as a versatile all-in-one metallaphotoredox catalyst.

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D.Don 1825 (Ericaceae) is a traditional Chinese medicinal plant used to treat rheumatoid arthritis. The complete chloroplast genome of .

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  • The study investigates the shift between evergreen and deciduous leaf habits in East Asian forest trees, particularly focusing on the Litsea complex, to understand how these traits adapt to past climatic changes.
  • Researchers reconstructed the evolutionary history of Litsea using genomic data and identified key periods, revealing that evergreen broadleaved forests first appeared during the Early Eocene due to warmer conditions.
  • The transition to deciduous traits occurred in response to cooling climates in the Middle to Late Eocene, while the rise of monsoon conditions by the Early Miocene accelerated the development of evergreen traits that define today's forests.
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  • Wintergreen oil is commonly used in food, cosmetics, and medicine, and the study focuses on nine Chinese species of wintergreen from the Ericaceae family.
  • Researchers sequenced their plastomes, identifying 110 unique genes and noting significant structural variations, such as gene duplications and rearrangements.
  • The study also pinpointed seven potential DNA barcoding regions, enhancing the ability to identify and differentiate these medicinal wintergreen species.
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In this paper, two kinds of coupled fractional-order reaction-diffusion neural networks (CFORDNNs) with multiple state couplings or spatial diffusion couplings are proposed. By resorting to the Laplace transform and the properties of Mittag-Leffler functions, sufficient synchronization conditions are derived for the concerned network models. In addition, to guarantee the synchronization of these two networks, several appropriate adaptive control schemes are also developed.

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Background: Polypodiales suborder Dennstaedtiineae contain a single family Dennstaedtiaceae, eleven genera, and about 270 species, and include some groups that were previously placed in Dennstaedtiaceae, Hypolepidaceae, Monachosoraceae, and Pteridaceae. The classification and phylogenetic relationships among these eleven genera have been poorly understood. To explore the deep relationships within suborder Dennstaedtiineae and estimate the early diversification of this morphologically heterogeneous group, we analyzed complete plastomes of 57 samples representing all eleven genera of suborder Dennstaedtiineae using maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference.

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The pollution source identification methods based on traditional water quality monitoring and pollutant discharge loading typically require a high frequency of monitoring and generate a level of uncertainty in the identification results, owing to their limitations on the accurate and quantitative assessment of pollution source identification, migration, and transformation. This study combined multivariate statistical analysis and stable isotope technology to identify groundwater pollution sources in a typical multiple land-use area of the Chengdu Plain. A positive matrix factorization (PMF) model was adopted to reduce the interference of mass environmental factors on source identification and to determine the main factors influencing groundwater quality.

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Structural variation of plastid genomes (plastomes), particularly large inversions and gene losses, can provide key evidence for the deep phylogeny of plants. In this study, we investigated the structural variation of fern plastomes in a phylogenetic context. A total of 127 plastomes representing all 50 recognized families and 11 orders of ferns were sampled, making it the most comprehensive plastomic analysis of fern lineages to date.

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sect. is a small section of ferns with about 12 species mainly distributed in East Asia. Here, we carried out morphological and phylogenetic analyses of this section.

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While roses are today among the most popular ornamental plants, the petals and fruits of some cultivars have flavored foods for millennia. The genetic origins of these edible cultivars remain poorly investigated. We collected the major varieties of edible roses available in China, assembled their plastome sequences, and phased the haplotypes for internal transcribed spacers (ITS1/ITS2) of the 18S-5.

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  • Polypodiales, which make up about 82% of fern species, likely diversified during the Late Cretaceous, with divergence times estimated using both penalized likelihood and Bayesian methods on a dataset of 208 plastomes.
  • The phylogenetic analysis revealed six major lineages similar to nuclear studies but showed differing positions for one lineage, while relationships among families, especially in Aspleniineae, were highly resolved.
  • Divergence estimates suggest the common ancestor of Polypodiales dates back to the Triassic, with major lineages established in the Jurassic, possibly indicating a simultaneous diversification with angiosperms just before the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution, highlighting a previously overlooked aspect of ecosystem evolution.
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is an evergreen shrub in the family Ericaceae. It is used as a source of the Chinese traditional medicine, Tougucao, with distribution of the junction of eastern Himalaya and Hengduan Mountain. The chloroplast genome of is 175,649 bp in length with 135 genes, including eight rRNA genes, 39 tRNA genes, and 85 protein-coding genes.

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Gaultheria fragrantissima (Ericaceae) is an aromatic medicinal plant with high concentrations of the secondarymetabolite methyl salicylate (oil of wintergreen). In this study, the complete chloroplast genomeof G. fragrantissima was sequenced.

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The rambler Crép. is an important founder species during modern rose domestication. However, the chloroplast genome (plastome) of this wild species remains unavailable.

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The rat auditory cortex is divided anatomically into several areas, but little is known about the functional differences in information processing among these areas. Three tonotopically organized core fields, namely, the primary (A1), anterior (AAF), and ventral (VAF) auditory fields, as well as one non-tonotopically organized belt field, the dorsal belt (DB), were identified based on their response properties. Compared to neurons in A1, AAF and VAF, units in the DB exhibited little or no response to pure tones but strong responses to white noise.

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Cytidine-to-uridine (C-to-U) RNA editing is common in coding regions of organellar genomes throughout land plants. In most cases RNA editing alters translated amino acids or creates new start codons, potentially confounds phylogenetic reconstructions. In this study, we used the spike moss genus (lycophytes), which has the highest frequency of RNA editing, as a model to test the effects of extreme RNA editing on phylogenetic reconstruction.

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is an economically important genus of the nettle family (Urticaceae). Previous systematic studies based on morphology, or using up to four plastome regions, have not satisfactorily resolved relationships within the genus. Here, we report 25 new plastomes for Urticaceae, including 12 plastomes from five species and 13 plastomes from other genera.

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was assessed as endangered according to Red List of Chinese Plants. In this study, we described the complete plastid genome of . The plastid genome sequence of is 157,648 bp in size, having a large single-copy region (LSC) of 86,514 bp, a small single-copy region (SSC) of 18,076 bp, and two inverted repeat (IR) regions of 26,529 bp.

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(Baker) Christ is an endangered fern species endemic to southwest China. In this study, we sequenced the complete plastid genome of . The gene order and structure of the plastome are similar to those published plastomes in Polypodiales.

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is an important genus; however, no plastid genome has been reported to date. Here we report the complete chloroplast genomes for two species. The chloroplast genomes of and were found to be 170920 bp and 170958 in length, respectively, and the GC contents were 35.

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The complete chloroplast genome of Trécul was determined in this study. The total genome size was 153,925 bp in length, containing a pair of inverted repeats (IRs) of 25,443 bp, which were separated by large single copy (LSC) and small single copy (SSC) of 84,947 bp and 18,092 bp, respectively. The GC contents is 36.

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