Aquaculture is the fastest-growing farmed food sector and will soon become the primary
source of fish and shellfish for human diets. In contrast to crop and livestock production …

High-throughput sequencing technologies have been extensively applied to genetics and
breeding in the aquaculture industry. To date, many aquaculture animal genomes have …

Polyploidy or whole-genome duplication (WGD) is a major event that drastically reshapes
genome architecture and is often assumed to be causally associated with organismal …

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 …

Sea urchins are emblematic models in developmental biology and display several
characteristics that set them apart from other deuterostomes. To uncover the genomic cues …

Sea cucumber is a morphologically diverse and ecologically important clade of
echinoderms. The sea cucumber Apostichopus japonicus is the most economically valuable …

The earthworm is particularly fascinating to biologists because of its strong regenerative
capacity. However, many aspects of its regeneration in nature remain elusive. Here we …

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 …

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 …

Microbial communities present in diverse environments from deep seas to human body
niches play significant roles in the complex ecosystem and human health. Characterizing …