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**ang-De Li
Life Sciences
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Phylogenomics, divergence times and notes of orders in Basidiomycota
Basidiomycota is one of the major phyla in the fungal tree of life. The outline of Basidiomycota provides essential taxonomic information for researchers and workers in mycology. In this study, we present a ti...
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Open AccessMetabolic network analysis of pre-ASD newborns and 5-year-old children with autism spectrum disorder
Classical metabolomic and new metabolic network methods were used to study the developmental features of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in newborns (n = 205) and 5-year-old children (n = 53). Eighty percent of th...
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Metagenomic analysis of individual mosquito viromes reveals the geographical patterns and drivers of viral diversity
Mosquito transmitted viruses are responsible for an increasing burden of human disease. Despite this, little is known about the diversity and ecology of viruses within individual mosquito hosts. Here, using a ...
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Open AccessComparative and phylogenetic analysis of Chiloschista (Orchidaceae) species and DNA barcoding investigation based on plastid genomes
Chiloschista (Orchidaceae, Aeridinae) is an epiphytic leafless orchid that is mainly distributed in tropical or subtropical forest canopies. This rare and threatened orchid lacks molecular resources for phylogene...
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Shoot Production of Solanum tuberosum L. ‘Yansi’ Using a Simple Continuous Immersion Airlift Bioreactor Culture System
A simple in vitro shoot regeneration method was developed for Solanum tuberosum L. ‘Yansi’ using a simple continuous immersion airlift bioreactor culture system with Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium. Growth charac...
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Open AccessDemography and fitness of Sesamia inferens Walker (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) on three important gramineous crops
Pink stem borer, Sesamia inferens (Walker), a major rice pest, has rarely been reported to cause serious damage to sorghum in China. During a survey of insect pests in glutinous sorghum for Chinese liquor product...
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Open AccessEvaluation of Telenomus remus (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae) as a biocontrol agent of Spodoptera litura (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) based on two-sex life table and functional response analyses
Telenomus remus Nixon is an important egg parasitoid of Spodoptera spp. pests and, as such, has potential as a biological control agent. Spodoptera litura (Fabricius) is a significant pest of many economically im...
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A comprehensive analysis of the Bencao (herbal) small RNA Atlas reveals novel RNA therapeutics for treating human diseases
Cross-kingdom herbal miRNA was first reported in 2012. Using a modified herbal extraction protocol, we obtained 73,677,287 sequences by RNA-seq from 245 traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), of which 20,758,257 ...
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Fungal diversity notes 1611–1716: taxonomic and phylogenetic contributions on fungal genera and species emphasis in south China
This article is the 15th contribution in the Fungal Diversity Notes series, wherein 115 taxa from three phyla, nine classes, 28 orders, 48 families, and 64 genera are treated. Fungal taxa described and illustr...
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Plastid-localized amino acid metabolism coordinates rice ammonium tolerance and nitrogen use efficiency
Ammonium toxicity affecting plant metabolism and development is a worldwide problem impeding crop production. Remarkably, rice (Oryza sativa L.) favours ammonium as its major nitrogen source in paddy fields. We s...
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Open AccessGeneration of nanobodies acting as silent and positive allosteric modulators of the α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor
The α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR), a potential drug target for treating cognitive disorders, mediates communication between neuronal and non-neuronal cells. Although many competitive antagonists,...
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Open AccessDietary fiber during gestation improves lactational feed intake of sows by modulating gut microbiota
The feed intake of sows during lactation is often lower than their needs. High-fiber feed is usually used during gestation to increase the voluntary feed intake of sows during lactation. However, the mechanism...
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Open AccessA proteome-scale map of the SARS-CoV-2–human contactome
Understanding the mechanisms of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) disease severity to efficiently design therapies for emerging virus variants remains an urgent challenge of the ongoing pandemic. Infection a...
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Open AccessCo-fitness analysis identifies a diversity of signal proteins involved in the utilization of specific c-type cytochromes
c-Type cytochromes are essential for extracellular electron transfer (EET) in electroactive microorganisms. The expression of appropriate c-type cytochromes is an important feature of these microorganisms in res...
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The genome of homosporous maidenhair fern sheds light on the euphyllophyte evolution and defences
Euphyllophytes encompass almost all extant plants, including two sister clades, ferns and seed plants. Decoding genomes of ferns is the key to deep insight into the origin of euphyllophytes and the evolution o...
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Open AccessProteomics-based evaluation of the mechanism underlying vascular injury via DNA interstrand crosslinks, glutathione perturbation, mitogen-activated protein kinase, and Wnt and ErbB signaling pathways induced by crotonaldehyde
Crotonaldehyde (CRA)—one of the major environmental pollutants from tobacco smoke and industrial pollution—is associated with vascular injury (VI). We used proteomics to systematically characterize the present...
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Open AccessModulation of macrophage inflammatory function through selective inhibition of the epigenetic reader protein SP140
SP140 is a bromodomain-containing protein expressed predominantly in immune cells. Genetic polymorphisms and epigenetic modifications in the SP140 locus have been linked to Crohn’s disease (CD), suggesting a role...
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Single-base methylome analysis reveals dynamic changes of genome-wide DNA methylation associated with rapid stem growth of woody bamboos
CG and CHG methylation levels in the rapid shoot growth stages (ST2–ST4) of woody bamboos were obviously decreased, which might regulate the internode elongation during rapid shoot growth, while CHH methylatio...
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Pelagic cyanobacterial nitrogen fixation in lakes and ponds of different latitudinal zones
Excess nitrogen (N) loading is one of the main factors causing eutrophication. Biological N fixation (BNF), as a main contributor to N loading, plays a critical role in the N cycle. The N2 fixation rate (N2fix) i...
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Sparse deconvolution improves the resolution of live-cell super-resolution fluorescence microscopy
A main determinant of the spatial resolution of live-cell super-resolution (SR) microscopes is the maximum photon flux that can be collected. To further increase the effective resolution for a given photon flu...
