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| Horizontal gene transfer (HGT), the transfer of genetic material between organisms other than vertical gene transfer (transfer from the parents to offspring), is an important force in speciation and genome evolution. Although numerous cases of HGT have been documented in prokaryotes and unicellular eukaryotes, a common belief is that HGT is rare in multicellular eukaryotes such as animals, let ... more |
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Olfactory receptor gene family is the largest gene family in mammalian genomes, this gene family is under strong selection in large scales, however, how about the gene family in the microscale, are they under selections or random drift?
Zhang Yaping's lab at Kunming Institute of Zoology (KIZ), working on the dog, studied the olfactory receptor gene family in the dog. As a firstly domesticat... more |
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Research over the past decade has implicated over-expression of the Yes-associated protein (YAP) in the development of breast cancer. Despite strong experimental correlation between these and the proliferation, survival and migration of breast cancer cells, how YAP promotes cancer development was unclear until CHEN Ceshi’s group at the Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Scie... more |
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Glyptothorax is a most species-diverse but poorly knowing catfish genus in Sisoridae. There are about 80 valid species widely distributed throughout the entire southern arc of the Asian continent. Wu et al. (1981) described G. zanaensis from Zana in the Nujiang (upper Salween River) drainage in Tibet. This species was not mentioned in Li’s (1984) review of the Chinese Glyptothorax, in whi... more |
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A mount of natural medicines exert their activities depending on not only small molecular compounds but also proteins and/or peptides. Recently, the group supervised by prof. Ren Lai, from Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences has achieved a great contribution to investigate functional proteins and peptides from medicinal insects and amphibians by proteomics and/or pept... more |
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