Zheng Sun

TL;DR: “intestinal microbiota maturation index” was proposed to quantitatively compare impact of feed additives on animal microecology and reveals a tremendous potential of probiotics as antibiotics’ substitute in poultry farming.

TL;DR: Next-generation sequencing and bioinformatic techniques are employed to observe the transcriptome differences of the shrimp between latent infection stage and acute infection stage, and genes in the Toll and IMD pathways, the Ras-activated endocytosis process, the RNA interference pathway, anti-lipopolysaccharide factors and many other genes were found to be activated in shrimp.

TL;DR: Application of Parallel-META 3 on 5,337 samples with 1,117,555,208 sequences from diverse studies and platforms showed it could produce similar results as QIIME and PICRUSt with much faster speed and lower memory usage, which demonstrates its ability to unravel the taxonomical and functional dynamics patterns across large datasets and elucidate ecological links between microbiome and the environment.

TL;DR: Dysbiosis of intestinal microbiota may be one cause of mastitis, and probiotics that restore intestinal microbiota function are an effective and safe strategy to treat mastitis.

TL;DR: Putative binding sites for transcription factors regulating transcription of hormone genes and genes related to sexual development were predicted, which provided a primary understanding on the regulation mechanism of Fc-IAG gene.