Yan He

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: The great diversity in immune and stress response genes exhibited by expanded gene families as well as high sequence and structural polymorphisms may be central to oyster's adaptation to highly stressful and widely changing environments.

TL;DR: The mobilization and complex regulation of expanded innate immune-gene families highlights the oyster genome's adaptation to a virus-rich marine environment and provides unprecedented insights into antiviral response in a mollusc.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identified polymorphism in the cvSI-1 gene and studied its association with improved survival after disease-caused mortalities and in disease-resistant eastern oyster strains.

TL;DR: De novo transcriptome sequencing is performed to produce the most comprehensive expressed sequence tag resource for Zhikong scallop (Chlamys farreri), and the first large-scale transcriptome comparison for scallops is performed, which identified a number of putative fast-evolving genes, which may play an important role in scAllop speciation and/or local adaptation.