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Study of thermal effects in silicon-based PIN detectors with different external bias voltages irradiated by 1064 nm continuous laser
In this work, we examined the damage area and maximum surface temperature of silicon-based photodiodes (PIN) with varying external bias voltages under continuous laser irradiation at 1064 nm. The temperature a...
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Isolation and identification of vapA-absent Aeromonas salmonicida in diseased snakehead Channa argus in China
Aeromonas salmonicida is the typical pathogen causing furunculosis, reported widely in salmonids. Because of multiple serotypes, the control of A. salmonicida-caused disease has increasingly received much attent...
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Open AccessOrf1B controls secretion of T3SS proteins and contributes to Edwardsiella piscicida adhesion to epithelial cells
Edwardsiella piscicida is a Gram-negative enteric pathogen that causes hemorrhagic septicemia in fish. The type III secretion system (T3SS) is one of its two most important virulence islands. T3SS protein EseJ in...
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Open AccessIdentification and establishment of type IV interferon and the characterization of interferon-υ including its class II cytokine receptors IFN-υR1 and IL-10R2
Interferons (IFNs) are critical soluble factors in the immune system and are composed of three types, (I, II and III) that utilize different receptor complexes IFN-αR1/IFN-αR2, IFN-γR1/IFN-γR2, and IFN-λR1/IL-...
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Open AccessNOD1 deficiency impairs CD44a/Lck as well as PI3K/Akt pathway
Pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) are crucial for host defense and tissue homeostasis against infecting pathogens. PRRs are highly conserved cross species, suggesting their key roles in fundamental biologic...
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Zebrafish as a Model for the Study of Host-Virus Interactions
Zebrafish (Danio rerio) has become an increasingly important model for in vivo and in vitro studies on host-pathogen interaction, offering scientists with optical accessibility and genetic tractability, and a ver...
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Molecular characterization and expression of ZAP-70 in Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) in response to Streptococcus agalactiae stimulus
The 70 kDa zeta-chain associated protein kinase (ZAP-70) plays a critical role in effective signal transductions that are fundamental to T cell differentiation, proliferation and effector functions. In this pa...
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Open AccessTranscriptomic analysis of the host response to an iridovirus infection in Chinese giant salamander, Andrias davidianus
The emergence of an infectious viral disease caused by the Chinese giant salamander iridovirus (GSIV) has led to substantial economic losses. However, no more molecular information is available for the underst...
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Integrate WSN to the Web of Things by Using XMPP
Wireless Sensor Network is a promising technology thanks to its numerous beneficial applications. The recent trend towards Web of Things leverages substantial web technologies and toolkits, which greatly simpl...
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Open AccessGlobal characterization of interferon regulatory factor (IRF) genes in vertebrates: Glimpse of the diversification in evolution
Interferon regulatory factors (IRFs), which can be identified based on a unique helix-turn-helix DNA-binding domain (DBD) are a large family of transcription factors involved in host immune response, haemotopo...
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Open AccessZaccone G, Perrière C, Mathis A, Kapoor BG: Fish Defenses: Pathogens, Parasites and Predators
Book review of "Fish Defenses: Volume 2. Pathogens, Parasites and Predators" by G. Zaccone, C. Perrière, A. Mathis, B. G. Kapoor (eds.)
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An approach to analyzing taxonomic patterns of protozoan communities for monitoring water quality in Songhua River, northeast China
Taxonomic patterns of protozoan community structure for monitoring water quality were studied from May to September 2003 in Songhua River, northeast China. Protozoan communities were sampled monthly using PFU ...
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Effects of cyanobacterial toxin microcystin-LR on the transcription levels of immune-related genes in grass carp Ctenopharyngodon idella
Recent studies in mammals have revealed that the cyanobacterial toxin MC-LR suppresses immune functions. Nevertheless, immunotoxic effects of microcystins have been little studied in fish. In this paper, we pr...
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Open AccessOrigin and evolution of the RIG-I like RNA helicase gene family
The DExD/H domain containing RNA helicases such as retinoic acid-inducible gene I (RIG-I) and melanoma differentiation-associated gene 5 (MDA5) are key cytosolic pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) for detect...
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Open AccessCommunities of gastrointestinal helminths of fish in historically connected habitats: habitat fragmentation effect in a carnivorous catfish Pelteobagrus fulvidraco from seven lakes in flood plain of the Yangtze River, China
Habitat fragmentation may result in the reduction of diversity of parasite communities by affecting population size and dispersal pattern of species. In the flood plain of the Yangtze River in China, many lake...
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Identification of an additional two-cysteine containing type I interferon in rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss provides evidence of a major gene duplication event within this gene family in teleosts
Multiple type I interferons (IFNs) have recently been identified in salmonids, containing two or four conserved cysteines. In this work, a novel two-cysteine containing (2C) IFN gene was identified in rainbow ...
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Utility of ITS1–5.8S–ITS2 sequences for species discrimination and phylogenetic inference of two closely related bucephalid digeneans (Digenea: Bucephalidae): Dollfustrema vaneyi and Dollfustrema hefeiensis
The complete internal transcribed spacer 1 (ITS1), 5.8S ribosomal DNA, and ITS2 region of the ribosomal DNA from 60 specimens belonging to two closely related bucephalid digeneans (Dollfustrema vaneyi and Dollfus...
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Non-monophyly of fish in the Sinipercidae (Perciformes) as inferred from cytochrome b gene
The sinipercids represent a group of 12 species of freshwater percoid fish, including nine in Siniperca and three species in Coreoperca. Despite several classification attempts and a preliminary molecular phyloge...
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Gene structure and transcription of IRF-2 in the mandarin fish Siniperca chuatsi with the finding of alternative transcripts and microsatellite in the coding region
The gene of interferon regulatory factor-2 (IRF-2) has been cloned from the mandarin fish (Siniperca chuatsi). The IRF-2 gene has 6,418 nucleotides (nt) and contains eight exons and seven introns, encoding two mR...
