Zhenkui Qin

TL;DR: A high-quality reference genome sequence of channel catfish is reported, providing evidence that lack of secretory calcium-binding phosphoproteins accounts for the evolutionary loss of scales in catfish and demonstrates the power of comparative subtraction of candidate genes for traits of structural significance.

TL;DR: The integrated map provides a valuable tool for validating and improving the catfish whole-genome assembly and facilitates fine-scale QTL mapping and positional cloning of genes responsible for economically important traits.

TL;DR: This is the first sterilization achieved using ZFN technology in an aquaculture species and the first successful gene editing of channel catfish, and is a step towards control of domestic, hybrid, exotic, invasive, and transgenic fishes.

TL;DR: The ontogenetic transcriptome profiling for Mollusca reveals that trochophore larvae exhibit rapid transcriptome evolution with extraordinary incorporation of novel genes (potentially contributing to adult shell evolution), and that cell signalling/communication genes are probably crucial for larval evolution.

TL;DR: The genotype × diet interactions observed indicated that the potential of desaturase transgenesis cannot be realized without using a well-designed diet with the needed amount of substrates.