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Southwest University
Education•Chongqing, China•
About: Southwest University is a education organization based out in Chongqing, China. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Bombyx mori. The organization has 29772 authors who have published 27755 publications receiving 409441 citations. The organization is also known as: Southwest University in Chongqing & SWU.
Topics: Population, Bombyx mori, Gene, Electrochemiluminescence, Biosensor
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National University of Rosario1, Centre national de la recherche scientifique2, Bharathidasan University3, University of Burgundy4, Chinese Academy of Sciences5, University of Udine6, Sao Paulo State University7, University of the West Indies8, University of Toulouse9, South Central University for Nationalities10, IFREMER11, University of Sannio12, University of Santiago de Compostela13, University of Porto14, Jeju National University15, Rural Development Administration16, University of the French West Indies and Guiana17, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences18, Dalian Ocean University19, Kurukshetra University20, University of Vienna21, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic22, Polish Academy of Sciences23, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven24, Vrije Universiteit Brussel25, University of Girona26, Masaryk University27, Shanghai Ocean University28, Southwest University29
TL;DR: 220 microsatellite marker loci were added to the Molecular Ecology Resources Database for the following species: Allanblackia floribunda, Amblyraja radiata, Bactrocera cucurbitae, Brachycaudus helichrysi, Calopogonium mucunoides, Dissodactylus primitivus, Elodea canadensis, Ephydatia fluviatilis, Galapaganus howdenae
Abstract: This article documents the addition of 220 microsatellite marker loci to the Molecular Ecology Resources Database. Loci were developed for the following species: Allanblackia floribunda, Amblyraja radiata, Bactrocera cucurbitae, Brachycaudus helichrysi, Calopogonium mucunoides, Dissodactylus primitivus, Elodea canadensis, Ephydatia fluviatilis, Galapaganus howdenae howdenae, Hoplostethus atlanticus, Ischnura elegans, Larimichthys polyactis, Opheodrys vernalis, Pelteobagrus fulvidraco, Phragmidium violaceum, Pistacia vera, and Thunnus thynnus. These loci were cross-tested on the following species: Allanblackia gabonensis, Allanblackia stanerana, Neoceratitis cyanescens, Dacus ciliatus, Dacus demmerezi, Bactrocera zonata, Ceratitis capitata, Ceratitis rosa, Ceratits catoirii, Dacus punctatifrons, Ephydatia mulleri, Spongilla lacustris, Geodia cydonium, Axinella sp., Ischnura graellsii, Ischnura ramburii, Ischnura pumilio, Pistacia integerrima and Pistacia terebinthus.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an overview of atmospheric CO2 uptake by coupled carbonate weathering and its impact on global carbon cycling, showing that CCW is linked to climate and land-use change through changes in the water cycle and water-born carbon fluxes.
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TL;DR: Three tea water extracts could improve the glucose tolerance, induce the production of SCFAs and inhibit theProduction of endotoxin LPS, most likely mediated by modulating gut microbiota.
Abstract: Accumulative evidence has suggested that tea consumption has benefits in reducing body fat and alleviating metabolic syndrome. We hypothesize that benefits of tea consumption can be partially mediated by modulating intestinal microbiota via inhibiting the formation of lipopolysaccharides (LPS) and promoting the production of short chain fatty acids (SCFAs). C57BL/6J mice were fed a high fat diet with the addition of 1% water extracts of green tea, oolong tea and black tea. Results showed that the dietary supplementation of three tea water extracts equally improved the glucose tolerance and reduced a high fat diet-induced gain in weight, hepatic lipids, and white adipose tissue weights. This was accompanied by a significant reduction in plasma LPS and a significant increase in the production of SCFAs. The metagenomic analyses showed that the tea extracts changed the overall composition of gut microbiota and decreased the relative abundance of family Rikenellaceae and Desulfovibrionaceae. In addition, tea water extracts could also change the abundance of key operational taxonomic units (OTUs) including OTU473 (Alistipes), OTU229 (Rikenella), OTU179 (Ruminiclostridium) and OTU264 (Acetatifactor). In conclusion, three tea extracts could improve the glucose tolerance, induce the production of SCFAs and inhibit the production of endotoxin LPS, most likely mediated by modulating gut microbiota.
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TL;DR: Results demonstrated that gsdf is a downstream gene of dmrt1, which probably inhibits estrogen production to trigger testicular differentiation, and inhibited estrogen production in a dose‐dependent manner in the presence of Sf1.
Abstract: Gonadal soma-derived factor (gsdf) is critical for testicular differentiation in teleosts, yet detailed analysis of Gsdf on testicular differentiation is lacking. In the present study, we knocked out tilapia gsdf using CRISPR/Cas9. F0 gsdf-deficient XY fish with high mutation rate (≥58%) developed as intersex, with ovotestes 90 days after hatching (dah), and become completely sex-reversed with ovaries at 180 and 240 dah. Those individuals with a low mutation rate (<58%) and XY gsdf(+/-) fish developed as males with normal testes. In F2 XY gsdf(-/-) fish, the gonads first expressed Dmrt1, which initiated the male pathway at 10 dah, then both male and female pathways were activated, as reflected by the simultaneous expression of Dmrt1 and Cyp19a1a in different cell populations at 18 dah, shifted to the female pathway expressing only Cyp19a1a at 36 dah, and finally developed into functional ovaries as adults. The male pathway and Dmrt1 expression was initiated, but failed to be maintained, in the absence of Gsdf. Aromatase-inhibitor treatment from 10 to 35 dah, however, rescued the phenotype, resulting in XY gsdf(-/-) with normal testes that expressed Dmrt1 and Cyp11b2. In vitro promoter analyses demonstrated that Dmrt1 activated gsdf expression in a dose-dependent manner in the presence of Sf1, even though Dmrt1 alone could not. Taken together, our results demonstrated that gsdf is a downstream gene of dmrt1. Gsdf probably inhibits estrogen production to trigger testicular differentiation. Mol. Reprod. Dev. 83: 497-508, 2016. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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TL;DR: Fadrozole-induced sex reversal provides a good model for study of sex reversal in teleosts and for understanding of sex determination and differentiation in nonmammalian vertebrates.
Abstract: Females with differentiated ovary of a gonochoristic fish, Nile tilapia, were masculinized by long-term treatment with an aromatase inhibitor (Fadrozole) in the present study. The reversed gonads developed into functional testes with fertile sperm. The longer the fish experienced sex differentiation, the longer treatment time was needed for successful sex reversal. Furthermore, Fadrozole-induced sex reversal, designated as secondary sex reversal (SSR), was successfully rescued by supplement of exogenous 17β-estradiol. Gonadal histology, immunohistochemistry, transcriptome, and serum steroid level were analyzed during SSR. The results indicated that spermatogonia were transformed from oogonia or germline stem cell-like cells distributed in germinal epithelium, whereas Leydig and Sertoli cells probably came from the interstitial cells and granulosa cells of the ovarian tissue, respectively. The transdifferentiation of somatic cells, as indicated by the appearance of doublesex- and Mab-3-related transcription factor 1 (pre-Sertoli cells) and cytochrome P450, family 11, subfamily B, polypeptide 2 (pre-Leydig cells)-positive cells in the ovary, provided microniche for the transdifferentiation of germ cells. Decrease of serum 17β-estradiol was detected earlier than increase of serum 11-ketotestosterone, indicating that decrease of estrogen was the cause, whereas increase of androgen was the consequence of SSR. The sex-reversed gonad displayed more similarity in morphology and histology with a testis, whereas the global gene expression profiles remained closer to the female control. Detailed analysis indicated that transdifferentiation was driven by suppression of female pathway genes and activation of male pathway genes. In short, SSR provides a good model for study of sex reversal in teleosts and for understanding of sex determination and differentiation in nonmammalian vertebrates.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Frank B. Hu | 250 | 1675 | 253464 |
Hongjie Dai | 197 | 570 | 182579 |
Jing Wang | 184 | 4046 | 202769 |
Chao Zhang | 127 | 3119 | 84711 |
Jianjun Liu | 112 | 1040 | 71032 |
Miao Liu | 111 | 993 | 59811 |
Jun Yang | 107 | 2090 | 55257 |
Eric Westhof | 98 | 472 | 34825 |
En-Tang Kang | 97 | 763 | 38498 |
Chang Ming Li | 97 | 896 | 42888 |
Wei Zhou | 93 | 1640 | 39772 |
Li Zhang | 92 | 918 | 35648 |
Heinz Rennenberg | 87 | 527 | 26359 |
Tao Chen | 86 | 820 | 27714 |
Xun Wang | 84 | 606 | 32187 |