supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Nos. 2011CBA0100, 2011CB944100, 2011BAI15B02, and se2012BAI39B04);the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (No. 2012AA020602);the Strategic Priority Research Program of CAS (Nos. XDA08000000 and XDA01030400);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 31272440 and 81671274)
Coat color is an important characteristic of various breeds of domestic animal species.Variation in farm animal coat color is of considerable interest for concealment,communication and protection against solar radiat...
supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program, Grant No. 2006AA02Z4A9);the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program, Grant No. 2011CB944100)
The human pharyngeal microbiome, which resides at the juncture of digestive and respiratory tracts, may have an active role in the prevention of respiratory tract infections, similar to the actions of the intestinal m...
supported by grant from Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2011CB944100,2011CB944101)
An organ unique to mammals, the mammary gland develops 90% of its mass after birth and experiences the pregnancy-lactation-involution cycle (PL cycle) during reproduction. To understand mammogenesis at the transcrip...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31101063,31271386);National Basic Research Program of China(2010CB126604,2011CB944100,2011CB944101)
All eukaryotic genomes have genes with introns in variable sizes.As far as spliceosomal introns are concerned,there are at least three basic parameters to stratify introns across diverse eukaryotic taxa:size,number,an...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(30221004)to Wang WeiWei;the National Basic Research Program from Ministry of Science and Technology of China(2011CB944100)to Yu Jun
Brine shrimps,Artemia(Crustacea,Anostraca),inhabit hypersaline environments and have a broad geographical distribution from sea level to high plateaus.Artemia therefore possess significant genetic diversity,which give...
supported by Grants from the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (Grant No. 2011CB944100) to JY;the Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. 30900831 and 31271372);Beijing Nova Program (Grant No. Z121105002512060)to SS
RNA modifications, especially methylation of the N6 position of adenosine (A)--m6A, rep- resent an emerging research frontier in RNA biology. With the rapid development of high-throughput sequencing technology, in-d...
supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(2011CB944100,2011CB944101);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (90919024);the Special Foundation Work Program of Ministry of Science and Technology (2009FY120100);the National High Technology Research and Development Program of Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2012AA020409)
Mammalian testis development is a complex and highly sophisticated process. To study the dynamic change of normal testis development at the transcriptional level, we investigated mouse testes at three postnatal ages: ...