supported by Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China(LTGN23C190008);Key Scientific and Technological Grant of Zhejiang for Breeding New Agricultural Varieties(2021C02069-3).
Myostatin is a member of the TGF-βsuperfamily and functions as a negative regulator for skeletal muscle development and growth.It has become the most targeted gene in aquaculture that used for selective breeding.Prev...
This study focused on the supplementation of four-sided spice fruit powder (Tetrapleura tetraptera) on some zootechnical performances of juveniles of Clarias gariepinus and was carried out from February 14 to July 20 ...
The authors thank the Fish Reproduction Station of Jinping-Guandi,China for providing the place for dissecting experiments.This study was supported by grants from the Yalong River Hydropower Development Company,Ltd.(No.YLDC-ZBA-2018116);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.31900373).We thank Megan Price for her help with language editing.
Fish artificial breeding and release is an important method to restore wild populations of endemic fish species around the world.Schizothorax wangchiachii(SW)is an endemic fish in the upper Yangtze River and is one of...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.32072981)。
In the East China Sea(ECS),chub mackerel Scomber japonicus constitutes an important coastal-pelagic fishery resource that is mainly exploited by Chinese,Japanese,and Korean light-purse seine fisheries.Because the earl...
Ministry Education and Culture,Directorate of Research and Technology for Research and Innovation,grant number 028/AMD-SP2H/LT-MULTI-PDPK/LL7/2021.
This experiment aimed to determine how Cd exposure impacts CD4 cell activation,macrophage cells,pinocytosis activity,metallothionine expression,and Cd levels in juvenile Gambusia affinis gills.Four treatment groups we...
supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(No.2018YFD0900906);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.41906073);the Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai(No.19ZR1423000).
An individual-based model of Scomber japonicus in the East China Sea(ECS)was developed to simulate the effects of physical environment on the transport and distribution of eggs,larvae and juveniles of S.japonicus from...
supported by the Ningbo Agricultural Major Projects (No. 201401C1111001);the Foundation of Zhejiang Educational Committee (No. Y2019409 57);sponsored by K.C.Wong Magna Fund in Ningbo University
As a stenohaline species,the survival of Sepia pharaonis can be affected by salinity significantly.This study aimed to explore the function of decreasing salinity on the survival of Sepia pharaonis,which can provide a...
Many animals consume the feces of their conspecifics.This allo-coprophagy can have benefits,such as access to nutrients and symbionts,but also risks for consumers,mainly due to direct contact with pathogens that devel...
Background: Research suggests that a small number of persistent violent offenders are responsible for a majority of prison violence and tend to behave violently to a disproportionate amount. However, literature on pat...
Background: There is no extensive literature on social predictors of self-harm in the juvenile justice system, over the time of a prisoner’s sentence. Self-harm behavior displays a higher prevalence ...