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DNA Res 2022 May 20. Epub 2022 May 20.

Key Laboratory of Plant Resource Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510650, China.

Fig wasp has always been thought the species-specific pollinator for their host fig (Moraceae, Ficus) and constitute a model system with its host to study co-evolution and co-speciation. The availability of a high-quality genome will help to further reveal the mechanisms underlying these characteristics. Here we present a high-quality chromosome-level genome for V. Read More

Talanta 2022 May 14;247:123552. Epub 2022 May 14.

College of Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100083, PR China.

A new method for rapidly detecting of total chlorogenic acids (CGAs) in plants by surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) based on reusable CuO-Ag substrate was developed in this study. The CuO-Ag substrate prepared by the in-situ growth method had high uniformity with peak intensity relative standard deviation (RSD) of 5.27%, repeatability with peak intensity RSD of 3. Read More

J Environ Manage 2022 May 17;316:115271. Epub 2022 May 17.

The Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Systems Optimization, Ministry of Education, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Main Building G619, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, 102206, China. Electronic address:

Comammox bacteria have proved to be one dominant and significant ammonia-oxidizing microorganisms (AOMs) in municipal wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), however, it still remains unknown about their abundance and diversity in industrial WWTPs. In this study, activated sludge samples from 8 municipal WWTPs and 6 industrial WWTPs treating refinery wastewater were taken and analyzed using qPCR and amoA gene sequencing. Intriguingly, quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) results suggested that comammox bacteria had a higher numerical abundance compared with ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) and ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) in municipal WWTPs but did not in refinery WWTPs. Read More

Mar Environ Res 2022 May 4;178:105641. Epub 2022 May 4.

Environmental Engineering, Guangdong Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, 241 Daxue Road, Shantou, Guangdong, 515063, China; Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Materials and Technologies for Energy Conversion, Guangdong Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, 241 Daxue Road, Shantou, Guangdong, 515063, China. Electronic address:

Studies on marine bacterial communities have revealed endemism in local communities, yet the underlying mechanisms remained elusive. Environmental gradient settings can benefit the straightaway study of community composition changes and the mechanisms explaining them. Here, MiSeq-based 16S rRNA gene sequencing was performed on 12 surface sediment samples from the northern South China Sea (nSCS) revealing that shallow-sea samples had a higher alpha diversity than deep-sea samples, and were differentiated from them significantly based on beta diversity. Read More

Vet Med Sci 2022 May 20. Epub 2022 May 20.

Department of Virology, Centre Pasteur of Cameroon, Yaoundé, Cameroon.

Background: Rift Valley fever (RVF) is an emerging mosquito-borne haemorrhagic fever disease capable of causing severe outbreaks with high mortality and morbidity in human, livestock, and wildlife species, particularly in Africa. The onset of the disease in humans is often preceded by epizootic circulation in animals. Therefore, this study was conducted to investigate the seroprevalence of Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) infection in animals slaughtered in the "Marché huitième" slaughterhouse in Yaoundé, Cameroon. Read More