It has now become accepted that the immune system and neuroendocrine system form an
integrated part of our physiology. Immunological defense mechanisms act in concert with …

The cerebellum is derived from the dorsal part of the anterior‐most hindbrain. The vertebrate
cerebellum contains glutamatergic granule cells (GCs) and gamma‐aminobutyric acid …

The risk of acetochlor to human health is still unclear, prompting concern over its risk,
especially to pesticide suicides population, occupational population (farmers, retailers and …

Gene duplication is thought to play a major role in phenotypic evolution. Yet the forces
involved in the functional divergence of young duplicate genes remain unclear. Here, we …

Congenital adrenal hyperplasia is a group of common inherited disorders leading to
glucocorticoid deficiency. Most cases are caused by 21-hydroxylase deficiency (21OHD) …

Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) proteins are trans-membrane proteins that have crucial
roles in many aspects of vertebrate development and physiology, including the development …

Trimethylation of lysine 27 on histone 3 (H3K27me3) by the Polycomb repressive complex 2
(PRC2) contributes to localized and inherited transcriptional repression. Kdm6b (Jmjd3) is a …

Half of all vertebrate species share a series of chromosome fusions that preceded the teleost
genome duplication (TGD), but we do not understand the causative evolutionary …

African lungfishes can aestivate and remain torpid without food and water for years, but
disuse muscle atrophy is not prominent during aestivation. This study aimed to clone …

Comparative functional genomic studies require the proper identification of gene orthologs
to properly exploit animal biomedical research models. To identify gene orthologs …