Publications by authors named "Ying-Jiao Li"
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- Pangolins are the most illegally traded wild animals in the world, and scientists are studying them because they may carry diseases like SARS-CoV-2.
- Researchers looked at viruses in 161 pangolins that were smuggled into China and discovered many new types of viruses never seen before in animals.
- Among the findings, scientists identified a coronavirus related to one found in bats, suggesting that pangolins could spread new harmful viruses to humans.
Workers of Apis cerana cerana undergo an in-hive nursing to outdoor foraging transition, but the genes underlying this age-related transition remain largely unknown. Here, we sequenced the head transcriptomes of its 7-day-old normal nurses, 18- and 22-day-old normal foragers, 7-day-old precocious foragers and 22-day-old over-aged nurses to unravel the genes associated with this transition. Mapping of the sequence reads to Apis mellifera genome showed that the three types of foragers had a greater percentage of reads from annotated exons and intergenic regions, whereas the two types of nurses had a greater percentage of reads from introns.
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