Publications by authors named "Zhen-Bang Liang"

Trachinotus ovatus is an economically important fish and has been recommended as a high-quality aquaculture fish breed for the high-quality development of sea ranches in the South China Sea. However, T. ovatus shows intolerance to low temperature, greatly limiting the extension of farming scale, reducing production efficiency in winter, and increasing farming risks.

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  • The study focuses on the Smallhead hairtail, a significant fish species in the northern Indian Ocean and northwest Pacific, and explores its genetic evolution by creating a detailed genome assembly.
  • They used advanced technologies to achieve a final genome size of 709.27 Mb, identifying 21,949 protein-coding genes and various gene family expansions and contractions.
  • The research uncovers potential genes and pathways related to key biological traits like tail formation and immunity, offering valuable genomic data for future studies on related fish species.
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is an economically important mariculture fish, and hypoxia has become a critical threat to this hypoxia-sensitive species. However, the molecular adaptation mechanism of liver to hypoxia remains unclear. In this study, we investigated the effects of acute hypoxic stress (1.

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is a major economically important cultured marine fish in the South China Sea. However, extreme weather and increased culture density result in uncontrollable problems, such as increases in water temperature and a decline in dissolved oxygen (DO), hindering the high-quality development of aquaculture. In this study, liver transcriptional profiles of were investigated under acute high-temperature stress (31 °C and 34 °C) and normal water temperature (27 °C) using RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) technology.

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Savalani hairtail is a widely distributed fish along the Indo-Western Pacific coast, and contributes substantially to trichiurid fishery resources worldwide. In this study, the first chromosome-level genome assembly of was obtained by PacBio SMRT-Seq, Illumina HiSeq, and Hi-C technologies. The final assembled genome was 790.

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  • The study investigates how pearl gentian grouper, a commercially important hybrid fish in Asia, responds to cold stress at various temperatures, as its cold tolerance is limited.
  • Researchers utilized advanced sequencing technologies to analyze the fish's liver transcriptome, identifying over 3,000 differentially expressed genes and several key gene modules associated with cold stress.
  • The findings highlight important biological pathways related to metabolism and stress response that can help enhance the fish's resilience to low temperatures, offering insights for aquaculture practices.
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Late Pleistocene climate oscillations are believed to have greatly influenced the distribution, population dynamics, and genetic variation of many marine organisms in the western Pacific. However, the impact of the late Pleistocene climate cycles on the demographic history and population genetics of pelagic fish in the northern South China Sea (SCS) remains largely unexplored. In this study, we explored the demographic history, genetic structure, and genetic diversity of , a typical pelagic fish, over most of its range in the northern SCS.

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