supported by the National Health and Medical Research Council Project,No.1004032
Mucin-like glycoproteins have established roles in epithelial boundary protection and lubricative roles in some tissues.This mini-review illustrates alternative functional roles which rely on keratan sulphate and sial...
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61573083).
Weakly electric fish has an ability to generate a low-frequency electric field actively to locate the surrounding object in complete darkness by sensing the change of the electric field. This ability is called active ...
Instead of vision, many nocturnal animals use alternative senses for navigation and object detection in their dark environment. For this purpose, weakly electric mormyrid fish employ active electrolocation, during whi...