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Open AccessGonadal transcriptomes reveal sex-biased expression genes associated with sex determination and differentiation in red-tail catfish (Hemibagrus wyckioides)
Red-tail catfish (Hemibagrus wyckioides) is an important commercially farmed catfish in southern China. Males of red-tail catfish grow faster than females, suggesting that all-male catfish will produce more signi...
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Causal gene identification and desirable trait recreation in goldfish
Goldfish (Carassius auratus) have long fascinated evolutionary biologists and geneticists because of their diverse morphological and color variations. Recent genome-wide association studies have provided a clue t...
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Open AccessComparative genome anatomy reveals evolutionary insights into a unique amphitriploid fish
Triploids are rare in nature because of difficulties in meiotic and gametogenic processes, especially in vertebrates. The Carassius complex of cyprinid teleosts contains sexual tetraploid crucian carp/goldfish (C...
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Open AccessInhibition of myeloid-derived suppressor cell arginase-1 production enhances T-cell-based immunotherapy against Cryptococcus neoformans infection
Cryptococcosis is a potentially lethal disease that is primarily caused by the fungus Cryptococcus neoformans, treatment options for cryptococcosis are limited. Here, we show glucuronoxylomannan, the major polysa...
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Sperm donor lifestyle survey: modifiable risk factors for potential sperm donors
To examine the association between modifiable lifestyle factors and the main semen parameter values, the number of qualified sperm donors, and to provide some sensible guidance for sperm donors.
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Open AccessComparative transcriptomic analysis reveals an association of gibel carp fatty liver with ferroptosis pathway
Fatty liver has become a main problem that causes huge economic losses in many aquaculture modes. It is a common physiological or pathological phenomenon in aquaculture, but the causes and occurring mechanism ...
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Regain of sex determination system and sexual reproduction ability in a synthetic octoploid male fish
Polyploids in vertebrates are generally associated with unisexual reproduction, but the direct consequences of polyploidy on sex determination system and reproduction mode remain unknown. Here, we synthesized ...
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Effect of Nb on catalyst nanoparticle sizes and catalytic activities of H2O2-mediated oxidative dehydrogenation of Cα–OH lignin model compounds
Nb-modified Mo–V–Nb tri-component oxides were synthesized for catalytic oxidative dehydrogenation of Cα–OH lignin model compounds. Nb–O octahedron as the nucleation center refined the Mo–V–Nb oxide particles with...
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Mo-V-Nb-O-based catalysts for low-temperature selective oxidation of Cα-OH lignin model compounds
Mo-V-Nb tri-component oxide catalysts were prepared and firstly used for the selective oxidation of Cα-OH lignin compounds. The catalytic performance of the composite oxides was obviously enhanced due to the syne...
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Stable Genome Incorporation of Sperm-derived DNA Fragments in Gynogenetic Clone of Gibel Carp
How unisexual animals eliminate deleterious mutations to avoid dead ends is one of the most interesting puzzles in evolutionary genetics. Incorporation of microchromosomes derived from exogenous sperm had been...
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Comparative Transcriptome Analysis Reveals Differentially Expressed Genes and Signaling Pathways Between Male and Female Red-Tail Catfish (Mystus wyckioides)
Sexual dimorphism is widespread in fish species. The red-tail catfish (Mystus wyckioides) is a commercially important catfish in the lower reaches of the Lancang River and the Mekong basin, and it shows a growth ...
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Rad9a is involved in chromatin decondensation and post-zygotic embryo development in mice
Zygotic chromatin undergoes extensive reprogramming immediately after fertilization. It is generally accepted that maternal factors control this process. However, little is known about the underlying mechanism...
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Origin and transition of sex determination mechanisms in a gynogenetic hexaploid fish
Most vertebrates reproduce sexually, and plastic sex determination mechanisms including genotypic sex determination (GSD) and environmental sex determination (ESD) have been extensively revealed. However, why ...
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OsSLA4 encodes a pentatricopeptide repeat protein essential for early chloroplast development and seedling growth in rice
In land plants, chloroplast transcripts undergo post-transcriptional modifications, including splicing, editing, trimming, etc., before translation, and a set of nuclear-encoded proteins regulate this essentia...
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Open AccessWider geographic distribution and higher diversity of hexaploids than tetraploids in Carassius species complex reveal recurrent polyploidy effects on adaptive evolution
Polyploidy roles on adaptive evolution and ecological novelty have been extensively studied in plants but remained unclear in vertebrates owing to the rare polyploidy incidences. Here, a huge number of 3105 sp...
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Ectopic expression of OsMADS1 caused dwarfism and spikelet alteration in rice
In rice, an E-class gene, OsMADS1, acts to specify the identities of the lemma and palea. In this study, the OsMADS1 gene with a CaMV35S promoter was transformed into a japonica cultivar, Zhonghua 11. All transge...
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Statistical Analysis of Yarn Feature Parameters in C/Epoxy Plain-Weave Composite Using Micro CT with High-Resolution Lens-Coupled Detector
C/Epoxy plain-weave composite is difficult to clear imaging in Micro CT with flat panel detector due to the similar atomic numbers of component materials. To solve this problem, a new Micro CT equipment with h...
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BTG4 is a meiotic cell cycle–coupled maternal-zygotic-transition licensing factor in oocytes
B-cell translocation gene-4 (Btg4) bridges interactions of translation initiation factor eIF4E and CCR4–NOT deadenylase, thus triggering decay of maternal mRNA during mouse oocyte maturation.
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Open AccessCytoplasmic Determination of Meiotic Spindle Size Revealed by a Unique Inter-Species Germinal Vesicle Transfer Model
Spindle sizes are different in diverse species and cell types. In frogs, the meiotic spindle size is positively correlated with the egg cell volume. Across species, relatively small mouse oocytes (70–80 μm) ha...
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Proliferation and resistance difference of a liver-parasitized myxosporean in two different gynogenetic clones of gibel carp
Some myxosporeans have been demonstrated to be harmful to worldwide aquaculture. However, the proliferation information has remained unclear in the fish hosts. In this study, we utilized the mix-culturing equa...
