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    Identification and characterization of alternative splicing variants of buffalo LXRα expressed in mammary gland

    Liver X receptor α (LXRα) is a ligand-dependent transcription factor and plays an important role in the regulation of cholesterol homeostasis, fatty acid biosynthesis and glucose metabolism. In this study, transc...

    **nyang Fan, Yongyun Zhang, Lihua Qiu, Wei Zhu, **ngtiao Tu in Scientific Reports (2022)

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    LPIN1 promotes triglycerides synthesis and is transcriptionally regulated by PPARG in buffalo mammary epithelial cells

    Studies on 3T3-L1 cells and HepG2 hepatocytes have shown that phosphatidic acid phosphohydrolase1 (LPIN1) plays a key role in adipogenesis, acting as a co-activator of peroxisome proliferator-activated recepto...

    Fangting Zhou, **nyang Fan, Yongwang Miao in Scientific Reports (2022)

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    Isolation, sequence characterization, and tissue transcription profiles of two novel buffalo genes: INSIG1 and INSIG2

    Insulin-induced genes (INSIGs) are recently discovered genes that are involved in the metabolism of cholesterol and lipogenesis in animal tissues. In this study, two INSIG genes (INSIG1 and INSIG2) were isolated ...

    Chunfeng Wu, Lixian Liu, **long Huo, Dalin Li in Tropical Animal Health and Production (2014)

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    Phylogeographic analysis of Apis cerana populations on Hainan Island and southern mainland China, based on mitochondrial DNA sequences

    The phylogeography of the eastern honeybee (Apis cerana) in southern China is poorly understood. In the present study, we investigated phylogenetic relationships among A. cerana populations on Hainan island and s...

    Wenzheng Zhao, Ken Tan, Danyin Zhou, Miao Wang, Chunfu Cheng, Zengyuan Yu in Apidologie (2014)

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    Exceptionally high cumulative percentage of NUMTs originating from linear mitochondrial DNA molecules in the Hydra magnipapillata genome

    In contrast to most animal genomes, mitochondrial genomes in species belonging to the phylum Cnidaria show distinct variations in genome structure, including the mtDNA structure (linear or circular) and the pr...

    Shen Song, Feng Jiang, Jianbo Yuan, Wei Guo, Yongwang Miao in BMC Genomics (2013)

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    The complete mitochondrial genomes of the whistling duck (Dendrocygna javanica) and black swan (Cygnus atratus): dating evolutionary divergence in Galloanserae

    Galloanserae is an ancient and diverse avian group, for which comprehensive molecular evidence relevant to phylogenetic analysis in the context of molecular chronology is lacking. In this study, we present two...

    Feng Jiang, Yongwang Miao, Wei Liang, Haiyan Ye, Hailin Liu in Molecular Biology Reports (2010)

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    The role of MC1R gene in buffalo coat color

    Melanocortin-1 receptor (MC1R) plays a major role in pigmentation in many species. To investigate if the MC1R gene is associated with coat color in water buffalo, the coding region of MC1R gene of 216 buffalo sam...

    YongWang Miao, GuiSheng Wu, Lei Wang, DaLin Li, ShouKun Tang in Science China Life Sciences (2010)