Marine natural products

AR Carroll, BR Copp, RA Davis, RA Keyzers… - Natural Product …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
This review covers the literature published between January and December in 2018 for
marine natural products (MNPs), with 717 citations (706 for the period January to December …

Research advances in the genomics and applications for molecular breeding of aquaculture animals

X You, X Shan, Q Shi - Aquaculture, 2020 - Elsevier
High-throughput sequencing technologies have been extensively applied to genetics and
breeding in the aquaculture industry. To date, many aquaculture animal genomes have …

Biosynthesis of saponin defensive compounds in sea cucumbers

R Thimmappa, S Wang, M Zheng, RC Misra… - Nature chemical …, 2022 - nature.com
Soft-bodied slow-moving sea creatures such as sea stars and sea cucumbers lack an
adaptive immune system and have instead evolved the ability to make specialized protective …

Chromosome-level genome assembly of the sea cucumber Apostichopus japonicus

L Sun, C Jiang, F Su, W Cui, H Yang - Scientific Data, 2023 - nature.com
Sea cucumber is a morphologically diverse and ecologically important clade of
echinoderms. The sea cucumber Apostichopus japonicus is the most economically valuable …

The Holothuria leucospilota genome elucidates sacrificial organ expulsion and bioadhesive trap enriched with amyloid-patterned proteins

T Chen, C Ren, NK Wong, A Yan… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Some tropical sea cucumbers of the family Holothuriidae can efficiently repel or even fatally
ensnare predators by sacrificially ejecting a bioadhesive matrix termed the Cuvierian organ …

Diverse triterpene skeletons are derived from the expansion and divergent evolution of 2, 3-oxidosqualene cyclases in plants

J Wang, Y Guo, X Yin, X Wang, X Qi… - Critical Reviews in …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Triterpenoids are one of the largest groups of secondary metabolites and exhibit diverse
structures, which are derived from C30 skeletons that are biosynthesized via the isoprenoid …

Adverse effects of polystyrene nanoplastics on sea cucumber Apostichopus japonicus and their association with gut microbiota dysbiosis

Z Zhao, X Wang, J Jiang, Y Dong, Y Pan, X Guan… - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
The mariculture environment is a sink of microplastics (MPs) due to its enclosed nature and
mass use of plastics. Nanoplastics (NPs) are MPs with a diameter< 1 μm that have a more …

Pan-evolutionary and regulatory genome architecture delineated by an integrated macro-and microsynteny approach

H Yu, Y Li, W Han, L Bao, F Liu, Y Ma, Z Pu, Q Zeng… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The forthcoming massive genome data generated by the Earth BioGenome Project will open
up a new era of comparative genomics, for which genome synteny analysis provides an …

Nutritional aspects of ecologically relevant phytochemicals in ruminant production

LO Tedeschi, JP Muir, HD Naumann… - Frontiers in Veterinary …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
This review provides an update of ecologically relevant phytochemicals for ruminant
production, focusing on their contribution to advancing nutrition. Phytochemicals embody a …

The brittle star genome illuminates the genetic basis of animal appendage regeneration

E Parey, O Ortega-Martinez, J Delroisse… - Nature Ecology & …, 2024 - nature.com
Species within nearly all extant animal lineages are capable of regenerating body parts.
However, it remains unclear whether the gene expression programme controlling …