Project description:Demosponge Cinachyrella cf cavernosa is an inter-tidal sponge. It is found in competition with soft coral Zoanthus sansibaricus and macroalgae Dictyota ciliatum. The effect of these two spatial competitors on the gene expression profile of the sponge is checked. Sponges are collected from three distinct situations, 1. sponge without competitors, 2. sponge in competition with algae, and 3. sponge in competition with soft coral. Each group has three biological replicates.
Project description:Rumen epithelial parakeratosis, a common disease in ruminants caused by abnormalities in the ruminal stratified squamous epithelial keratinization process, negatively impacts ruminant health and performance. While we still lack a comprehensive perception of the underlying mechanisms and the predisposing factors for this disorder.Here, we investigated rumen epithelial cell heterogeneity, differentiation trajectories, and cornification to clarify the rumen epithelial keratinization process
Project description:Innovative strategies for increasing the yield of rice, the staple food for more than half of the global population, are needed to keep pace with the expected worldwide population increase, and sustainably forefront the challenges posed by climate change. Traditionally, in Southern-East Asian countries, rice farming benefits from the use of Azolla spp., either as green manure or as co-cultivated plants, for the supply of nitrogen. Azolla spp. are ferns that, in virtue of their symbiosis with the nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium Trichormus azollae, fix atmospheric nitrogen and release it to the environment upon decomposition of their biomass. However, if and to what extent actively growing Azolla plants impact on the development of co-cultivated rice plantlets remains to be understood. To address this point here we employed an experimental model to follow the growth and development of roots and aerial organs of rice seedlings when co-cultivated with Azolla filiculoides. We show that actively growing A. filiculoides plants alter the architecture of the roots, the transcriptome of the roots, and the hormonal profiles of both roots and leaves.
Project description:To investigate the evolutionary changes of regulatory elements in ruminants, we then performed regulatory elements profiling analysis using ChIP-seq datasets (H3K27ac and H3K4me3) of liver from three ruminants.
