funded by the Biodiversity Survey and Assessment Project of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment,China(2019HJ2096001006);the Shanghai Municipal Administration of Forestation and City Appearance(grant number G192421);the Biological Resource ProgrammeCAS(ZSZY-001-8);the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDA13020603);the Basic Project of Ministry of Science and Technology of China under Grant(2015FY110200).
Understanding how natural hybridization and polyploidizations originate in plants requires identifying potential diploid ancestors.However,cryptic plant species are widespread,particularly in Ceratopteris(Pteridaceae)...
supported by the National Key Program(2016YFC0503200)from the Ministry of Science and Technology of China;a special grant for the giant panda from the State Forestry Administration of the People’s Republic of China;the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of the People’s Republic of China;the Foundation of Key Laboratory of State Forestry and Grassland Administration(State Park Administration)on Conservation Biology of Rare Animals in the Giant Panda National Park(KLSFGAGP2020.002);the Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Genome Read and Write(2017B030301011)。
Extant giant pandas are divided into Sichuan and Qinling subspecies.The giant panda has many speciesspecific characteristics,including comparatively small organs for body size,small genitalia of male individuals,and l...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31522034);Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2016YFC0900103);the National High Technology Research and Development Program Grant (2015AA020407)
Reciprocal translocation is a chromosomal structural abnormal- ity that arises when two non-homologous chromosomes rearrange and attach with each other, an incidence that occurs in about 1/500 to 1/625 newborns (Mack...
This work was supported by CAMS Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences (CIFMS) (2016-12M-1-001), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31171299, 31271485, and 31301138), the National Basic Research Program of China (2012CB910703), and Tianjin Research Program of Application Foundation and Advanced Technology (12JC2DJC21400). C.Z. is supported by Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University in China (NCET-11-1066).
The chromokinesin Kif4A controls proper chromosome condensation, congression/alignment, and cytokinesis to ensure faithful genetic inheritance. Here, we report that Cdk phosphorylation of human Kif4A at T1161 licenses...
We thank Dr Yujie Sun for providing the dCas9-EGFP expressing plasmid and Dr Ping Wei from the Center of Quantitative Biol- ogy for the Tet-on 3G plasmids. We thank Shaoshuai Meng for his early involvement in this project. We appreciate the assistance of Bo He, Junya Zhao and Zujia Wang from Central South University in karyotype analysis. We are grateful to Xiaochen Li, Xuemei Hao and Chunyan Shan in Peking University imaging user facility for their help of acquiring cell division movies and N-SIM images. We thank Dr Patty Purcell for editing of the manuscript. Meanwhile we appreciate the assistant of Huan Hu for the guidance of FISH protocol. This work is supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, NSFC 21390412 and NSFC21327808 for XSX, and NSFC31430025, NSFC31170126, and NSFC81471909 for WW, and in part by a grant from National Basic Research Program of China, 2015AA020407 for LH.
Dear Editor, Visualization of chromosome shapes and dynamics in a live cell is highly desirable and necessary in many areas of cell biology. For example, the copy number of a particular chromosome in cancer cells is o...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(81373286);National Basic Research Program of China(2011CBA00800)
We applied a resistance split-fusion strategy to increase the in vivo direct cloning efficiency mediated by Red recombination. The cat cassette was divided into two parts: cma (which has a homologous sequence with ...
sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China(2013BAD01B02);the National Science and Technology Major Project of China(2009ZX08009010)
Chromosome segmental introgression lines(ILs)are an effective way to utilize germplasm resources in crops.To improve agronomic traits of wheat cultivar(Triticum aestivum) Shi 4185, four sets of ILs were developed....
supported by the National Basic Research Program(973 Program)of China(2014CB745100);the National Key Technologies R&D Program of China(2012AA022101)
Dear Editor,Transposable phages,which are reproduced by transposition(Harshey,2012;Taylor,1963),have been widely applied in the field of biotechnology to manipulate operon/gene fusions,in vivo cloning,randomion mutage...
supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (2011AA100302);the National Key Technology R&D Program of China (2011ZX08009-001);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31171192);the National Basic Research Program of China (2012CB124706)
Cellular retinoic acid-binding protein 1 (CRABP1) is a well-conserved member of cytosolic lipid-binding protein family. It is an important modulator of retinoic acid signaling. Long serial analysis of gene expressi...
supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 31071383);the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (Grant Nos. 2012AA10A302-7 and 2013ZX080 09003-004);the Jiangsu Government of China (Grant Nos. BK2012010 and CX(12)1003)
The rapid visco analyser (RVA) profile is an important factor for evaluation of the cooking and eating quality of rice. To improve rice quality, the identification of new quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for RVA pro...