The polarization state of microglia exerts an influence on neuroinflammation and neural tissue repair after injury. Modulating microglial polarization is emerging as a potential therapeutic strategy for various types of neural injuries and neurodegenerative diseases. However, the causal relations...
Pigeons (Columba livia) are widely kept as domesticated pets worldwide, and may have adapted to captivity through the evolutionarily specialized ability to produce ‘milk’ in the crops of both male and female parents via rapid proliferation and shedding of lipid- and protein-enriched epithelial ce...
Cyanobacterial blooms result from continued short-term succession of planktonic microbiomes, but these short-term variations are little known. Here we address this question with a field diel study in Lake Tai. By integrating untargeted metabolomics—verified by targeted metabolomics—and metagenomi...
Parasitism is a widespread source of mortality among marine microbial communities, with members of the diverse alveolate group Syndiniales being most prevalent and frequently identified in global omics studies. Despite their ubiquity, not much is known about Syndiniales parasite-host infection dy...