The National Key Research and Development Program of China under contract No.2016YFC0502904;the Public Science and Technology Research Funds Projects of Oceans under contract No.201305030。
In order to realize the spatiotemporal variations of benthic macrofaunal communities at the"Amphioxus Sand"habitat,six surveys including four seasons and three consecutive summers(i.e.,2014,2015 and 2016)were conducte...
Actin is a highly conserved cytoskeletal protein that is found in essentially all eukaryotic cells,which plays a paramount role in several basic functions of the organism, such as the maintenance of cellshape, cell di...
supported by a grant from the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program)(No.2008AA092602)
Transcription factors are a group of regulatory proteins that bJind to specific DNA sequence in the promoter region of the target genes to regulate gene expression at transcriptional level (Baeuerle, 1991; Jackson, 1...
Supported in part by Shandong Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau (SK200807) We thank Dr. LI Xiangning, who works in the CSR (Center for Scientific Review) of NIH (National Institutes of Health), USA, for his critical reading of the manuscript.
We investigated the developmental expression pattern of AmphiCaM in cephalochordate amphioxus (Branchiostoma belcheri tsingtauense). We cultured and sampled the animals at different developmental stages (eggs and l...
supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 30470203,2006CB101805, and 2008AA09Z411) ;Ministry of Sci-ence and Technology of China.
Protochordate amphioxus is an extant invertebrate regarded quite recently as a basal chordate. It has a vertebrate-like body plan including a circulation system with an organization similar to that of vertebrates. How...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.30730072)
Amphioxus appears to lack free circulating blood cells. How it clears invading pathogens from its body remains unknown to date. We demonstrate here that amphioxus Branchiostoma belcheri is capable of efficiently elimi...