Dormancy induced by Oxidative Damage during Disinfection Facilitates Conjugation of ARGs through Enhancing Efflux and Oxidative Stress: A Lagging Response

Chengsong Ye, Mingbao Feng, Yuqi Chen, Yiting Zhang, Qian Chen, XinYu Water Researchhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2022.118798Published: 1 August 2022AbstractDisinfection is known to greatly alter bacterial characteristics in water, and high horizontal gene transfer (HGT) frequency occurs in eutrophic conditions. Interestingly, these two seemingly irrelevant phenomena were closely linked by a...

Continental-scale plant invasions reshuffle the soil microbiome of blue carbon ecosystems

Gui-Feng Gao#, Huan Li#, Yu Shi, Teng Yang, Chang-Hao Gao, Kunkun Fan, Yihui Zhang, Yongguan Zhu, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo*, Hai-Lei Zheng*, Haiyan Chu*Global Change Biologyhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.16211Published: 21 April 2022AbstractTheory and experiments support that plant invasions largely impact aboveground biodiversity and function. Yet, much less is known on the in...

The ecological functions and risks of expansive bivalve-macroalgae polyculture: A case study in Sansha Bay, China

Bin Xie, Xijie Zhou Lingfeng Huang, Xinqing Zheng, Jianguo Du, Weiwei Yu, Guangcheng Chen, Wenjia Hua, Shike GaoAquaculturehttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2022.738549Published: 15 November 2022AbstractBivalve-macroalgae polyculture (BMP) is one of the most important aquacultural means and can maintain a nutrient balance and prevent eutrophication in aquaculture waters. Sansha Bay is a typ...

Chromosome-level assembly of the mangrove plant Aegiceras corniculatum genome generated through Illumina, PacBio and Hi-C sequencing technologies

Dongna Ma, Zejun Guo, Qiansu Ding, Zhizhu Zhao, Zhijun Shen, Mingyue Wei, Changhao Gao, Ludan Zhang, Huan Li, Shan Zhang, Xueyi Zhu, Hai-Lei Zheng*Molecular Ecology Resourceshttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1755-0998.13347AbstractAegiceras corniculatum is a major mangrove plant species adapted to waterlogging and saline conditions, grows in the coastal intertidal zone of tropica...

Ammonium has stronger Cd detoxification ability than nitrate by reducing Cd influx and increasing Cd fixation in Solanum nigrum L.

Zhang Lu-Dan#, Liu Xiang#, Wei Ming-Yue, Guo Ze-Jun, Zhao Zhi-Zhu, Gao Chang-Hao, Li Jing, Xu Jian-Xin, Shen Zhi-Jun, Zheng Hai-Lei*Journal of Hazardous Materialshttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2021.127947Published: 5 March 2022AbstractCadmium (Cd) is a harmful heavy metal that affects the growth and development of plants. Nitrogen (N) is an essential nutrient for plants, and appropriate N ma...

Genome-wide identification and characterization of aquaporins in mangrove plant Kandelia obovata and its role in response to intertidal environment

Zejun Guo, Dongna Ma, Jing Li, Mingyue Wei, Ludan Zhang, Lichun Zhou, Xiaoxuan Zhou, Shanshan He, Lin Wang, Yingjia Shen, Qingshun Quinn Li, Hai-Lei ZhengPlant, Cell & Environmenthttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pce.14286Published: 10 February 2022AbstractAquaporins (AQPs) play important roles in plant growth, development and tolerance to environmental stresses. To understand the rol...

Stronger conservation promotes mangrove biomass accumulation: Insights from spatially explicit assessments using UAV and Landsat data

Zhu Zhu, Minmin Huang, Zeyou Zhou, Guixiang Chen, Xudong ZhuRemote Sensing in Ecology and Conservationhttps://doi.org/10.1002/rse2.268Published:  26 April 2022AbstractChinese mangroves have been recovered in area over the past two decades from previous declining trend, and about half of existing mangroves are still in their young growth stage. This provides a unique opportunity to assess mangro...

Biotic homogenization increases with human intervention: implications for mangrove wetland restoration

Yamian Zhang, Lin Zhang, Yiyang Kang, Yuanxi Li, Zilong Chen, Rong Li, Changqing Tian, Wenqing Wang, Mao WangEcography http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecog.05835Published: 20 October 2021AbstractThe large-scale conversion of natural mangroves to aquaculture reduces species richness and diversity. Large areas of abandoned aquaculture ponds in areas where mangroves formerly predominated in China and so...

Metabolic Adaptation of a Globally Important Diatom following 700 Generations of Selection under a Warmer Temperature

Lu-Man Cheng, Lu-Man Cheng, Shu-Feng Zhang, Zhang-Xian Xie, Dong-Xu Li, Lin Lin, Ming-Hua Wang, and Da-Zhi WangEnvironmental Science & Technologyhttps://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c08584Published: March 30, 2022AbstractDiatoms, accounting for 40% of the marine primary production and 20% of global carbon dioxide fixation, are threatened by the ongoing ocean warming (OW). However, whether and how t...

Water masses and their associated temperature and cross-domain biotic factors co-shape upwelling microbial communities

Ping Sun, Ying Wang, Xin Huang, Bangqin Huang, Lei WangWater Researchhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2022.118274Published: 15 May 2022AbstractDisentangling the drivers and mechanisms that shape microbial communities in a river-influenced coastal upwelling system requires considering a hydrologic dimension that can drive both deterministic and stochastic community assembly by generating hydrolo...