Research Progress

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  Climate change shapes the vole population by regulating the composition and metabolism functions of vole’s gut microbiota

  Climate change is taking place at a greater pace with an increase in extreme events, including significant shifts in precipitation patterns. Recent studies suggested that climate change can have a large impact on the population dynamics of many species. Shifts in precipitation can affect plant community composition and primary productivity, especially in arid and semi-arid environments, and hence trigger cascading changes in resources availability for herbivores. Resource availability, in turn, alters small mammal (e.g., rodent) fitness and population dynamics. Although the bottom-up effect of precipitation on rodents has been well documented, few studies have evaluated the relationship between precipitation and rodent populations using manipulative field experiments. Likewise, field studies rarely identify the physiological mechanisms causing the bottom-up regulation of plants on rodents, or examine the role of host-microbiota interactions in this regulation.

  Apr 22, 2020
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  Novel Insight into the first multi-tissue single-cell transcriptomic atlases in Rattus norvegicus aging and CR

  Feb 28, 2020
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  Population genomics of red pandas reveals two phylogenetic species and their different evolutionary histories

  Feb 27, 2020
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  Endophallus Spiraling Occurring After Its Eversion Is An Innovation In Beetle Evolution

  Jan 03, 2020
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  Chromosome-level genome assembly for giant panda provides novel insights into Carnivora chromosome evolution

  Dec 16, 2019
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  Scientists uncover mysteries of the robustness of dorsoventral patterning

  Dec 19, 2019
• New research provide a strategic advantage for the next generation of anti-obesity drug development

  Nov 20, 2019
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  Neural precursor cells regulate the development of microglia during the early brain.

  Nov 14, 2019
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  Neural precursor cells regulate the development of microglia

  Nov 12, 2019
• Primate embryos grown in the lab to gastrulation stage

  Peri-implantation embryonic development is a critical process during which the embryo establishes a close relationship with maternal uterus, forms the basic body plan, and differentiates into three germ layers (endoderm, mesoderm and ectoderm) through gastrulation. The endoderm gives rise to most of the internal linings of the embryo body, including the lungs, the liver, the pancreas and the intestinal tract; the mesoderm differentiates into the heart, the skin, the muscle system and the bones; the ectoderm forms the nervous systems, the mammary glands and the hair. The abnormal development of human peri-implantation embryos appears to be correlated with the frequencies of woman reproductive disorders and human major structural malformations in central nervous system, heart and limbs. However, the knowledge of human peri-implantation embryonic development and gastrulation is very limited.

  Nov 07, 2019