Genomic inference of a severe human bottleneck during the Early to Middle Pleistocene transition

W Hu, Z Hao, P Du, F Di Vincenzo, G Manzi, J Cui… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Population size history is essential for studying human evolution. However, ancient
population size history during the Pleistocene is notoriously difficult to unravel. In this study …

Database resources of the national genomics data center in 2020

Nucleic acids research, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The National Genomics Data Center (NGDC) provides a suite of database
resources to support worldwide research activities in both academia and industry. With the …

Successes and failures of immunotherapy for gastric cancer

J Wang, S Tu, VP Chavda, ZS Chen, X Chen - Drug Discovery Today, 2022 - Elsevier
Highlights•Clinical studies of first-line immunotherapy for gastric cancer were
comprehensively reviewed.•The reasons for failure from a new perspective—chemotherapy …

From asymmetrical to balanced genomic diversification during rediploidization: subgenomic evolution in allotetraploid fish

J Luo, J Chai, Y Wen, M Tao, G Lin, X Liu, L Ren… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
A persistent enigma is the rarity of polyploidy in animals, compared to its prevalence in
plants. Although animal polyploids are thought to experience deleterious genomic chaos …

Chromatin accessibility landscape and regulatory network of high-altitude hypoxia adaptation

J Xin, H Zhang, Y He, Z Duren, C Bai, L Chen… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
High-altitude adaptation of Tibetans represents a remarkable case of natural selection
during recent human evolution. Previous genome-wide scans found many non-coding …

The highest-elevation frog provides insights into mechanisms and evolution of defenses against high UV radiation

TT Fu, YB Sun, W Gao, CB Long… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Defense against ultraviolet (UV) radiation exposure is essential for survival, especially in
high-elevation species. Although some specific genes involved in UV response have been …

OmicsSuite: a customized and pipelined suite for analysis and visualization of multi-omics big data

BB Miao, W Dong, YX Gu, ZF Han, X Luo… - Horticulture …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
With the advancements in high-throughput sequencing technologies such as Illumina,
PacBio, and 10X Genomics platforms, and gas/liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry …

[PDF][PDF] Genomic consequences of population decline in critically endangered pangolins and their demographic histories

JY Hu, ZQ Hao, L Frantz, SF Wu, W Chen… - National Science …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Pangolins are among the most critically endangered animals due to heavy poaching and
worldwide trafficking. However, their demographic histories and the genomic consequences …

Exogenous Melatonin Attenuates Post-Harvest Decay by Increasing Antioxidant Activity in Wax Apple (Syzygium samarangense)

Y Chen, Y Zhang, G Nawaz, C Zhao, Y Li… - Frontiers in plant …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Wax apple is one of the most popular tropical fruit but undergoes serious post-harvest decay
during storage, transportation and marketing. Melatonin (MT) plays important roles in plant …

Phenotypic and genomic adaptations to the extremely high elevation in plateau zokor (Myospalax baileyi)

T Zhang, J Chen, J Zhang, YT Guo, X Zhou… - Molecular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The evolutionary outcomes of high elevation adaptation have been extensively described.
However, whether widely distributed high elevation endemic animals adopt uniform …