Juan Li

TL;DR: The sequencing and assembly of the oyster genome using short reads and a fosmid-pooling strategy and transcriptomes of development and stress response and the proteome of the shell are reported, showing that shell formation in molluscs is more complex than currently understood and involves extensive participation of cells and their exosomes.

TL;DR: A chicken-type lysozyme obtained and characterized from the abalone Haliotis discus hannai Ino showed bacteriolytic activity against both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria and many putative transcription factor binding sites involved in the immune system and cancer were found.

TL;DR: Results indicate that Ai-PrxV is a constitutive and inducible protein that plays an important role in the immune response against bacterial infection.

TL;DR: Results suggest that AiFers are likely to play roles in both iron storage and innate immune defense against microbial infections.

TL;DR: Cloned an RXR homolog from the Pacific oyster and characterized its molecular function revealed the conserved gene function involved in protein localization, ligand binding and heterodimer formation with thyroid hormone receptor, but the DNA binding properties of CgRXR differed from those of other invertebrate and vertebrate RXRs.