Genomic investigation of a non-travel Plasmodium falciparum case linked to imported malaria in China's post-elimination era.

Background: Although China has achieved malaria elimination, the risk of reintroduction persists due to imported Plasmodium falciparum cases. Occasional infections without a clear travel history present challenge to routine epidemiological investigation and underscore the need for advanced tracing tools.

Methods: Whole-genome sequencing (WGS), principal component analysis (PCA), and identity-by-descent (IBD) analysis were applied to investigate a P.

The Intergenerational Transmission of Social Adjustment in Single-Parent Families With Different Sex Compositions: The Mediating Role of Parental Child-Rearing Gender-Role Attitudes.

Despite evidence of intergenerational transmission of behaviours and attitudes between parents and children, and differences in interactions between single parents and same- or opposite-sex children, the role of parent-child sex composition in the transmission of social adjustment in single-parent families remains unclear. This study surveyed 532 parent-adolescent dyads from single-parent families, with adolescents aged 12-18 years (M = 14.81, SD = 1.

Loss of phytochromobilin synthase activity leads to larger seeds with higher protein content in soybean.

Seed weight is an important agronomic trait that is related to seed size and determines yield in soybean (Glycine max). We previously identified a spontaneous soybean mutant with light green leaves called ygl2. Here, we cloned YGL2, which encodes a phytochromobilin (PΦB) synthase involved in synthesizing the chromophore of the photoreceptor phytochrome.

A Cross-Sectional Study of Iodine Nutritional Status Among School-Age Children in Chongqing, China.

: The aim of the present study was to evaluate the iodine nutritional statuses of children aged 8 to 10 years in Chongqing Municipality in 2023. : In this study, we employed multi-stage stratified cluster sampling of non-boarding children aged 8 to 10 years in all 39 counties (districts). The levels of iodine in household salt and those in random urine samples collected from the subjects were tested.

Transductive Parameter-Free Propagation Framework for Few-Shot Distribution Rectification.

Few-shot learning (FSL) is challenging due to the scarce labeled novel-class data. Researchers have to train the embedding function with auxiliary base-class data to obtain the novel-class embeddings. However, the domain gap makes the novel-class embedding unsatisfactory, as the novel class and the base class are disjoint.

How Does Parental Early Maladaptive Schema Affect Adolescents' Social Adaptation? Based on the Perspective of Intergenerational Transmission.

An individual's social adaptation is affected by their early maladaptive schemas. Previous studies have shown that early maladaptive schemas may be intergenerationally transmitted in families. It is important to explore the intergenerational effect of early maladaptive schemas on adolescents' social adaptation, as they are in a critical period of growth and development.

[Inflammatory factors and prostate cancer: Two-sample Mendelian randomization analysis].

Objective: To evaluate the potential causal relationship between inflammatory factors and PCa using the two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) method.

Methods: We selected summary statistics of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) (n = 14 824) on 91 inflammatory factors, with PCa as the outcome in the latest 9th edition of FinnGen database for MR analysis. We evaluated the causal relationship between inflammatory factors and PCa using the odds ratio (OR) and 95% confidence interval (CI) of such regression models as inverse variance weighting (IVW), MR-Egger regression, simple mode (SM), weighted mode (WM) and weighted median estimator (WME), with IVW as the main statistical method for this study.

Effect of Intergenerational Trends on Parental Child-Rearing Gender Role Attitudes (PCGAs) in Single-Parent Families: A Relative Mediation.

Family structures are diverse, with single-parent families being special. Single-parent families have garnered interest regarding their impact on their children's development in relation to gender roles and social adaptation. This study investigated 532 children from single-parent families (mean age = 14.

Serological and molecular survey of infection and associated risk factors in urban cats in Kunming, Southwest China.

() is a worldwide zoonotic parasite that can infect almost warm-blood animals, including humans, which seriously affect the health of host. Cats are known to be the only definitive host of and continuously excrete highly infectious oocysts. This parasite carried by the companion animals leads to a great public health risk.

The Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Roles: Evidence From Parents and Children in Single-Parent.

Given the current increases in the divorce rate and the number of single-parent families, the development of gender roles among children from single-parent families has received more and more attention. This study investigated how single parents influenced the formation of their children's gender roles and family-related factors that benefited the development of gender roles in single-parent children. Through in-depth interviews with 24 pairs of parents and children from single-parent families, we investigated single parents' and their children's cognition on gender roles, parents' parenting attitudes and behaviors during their children's gender role development, and communication and interaction between parents and children.

Sheet-Isolated MoS Used for Dispersing Pt Nanoparticles and its Application in Methanol Fuel Cells.

It is highly challenging to activate the basal plane and minimize the π-π stacking of MoS sheets, thus enhancing its catalytic performance. Here, we display an approach for making well-dispersed MoS . By using the N-doped multi-walled carbon nanotubes (NMWCNTs) as an isolation unit, the aggregation of MoS sheets was effectively reduced, favoring the dispersion of Pt nanoparticles (noted as Pt/NMWCNTs-isolated-MoS ).

Novel in vivo endometriotic models associated eutopic endometrium by implanting menstrual blood-derived stromal cells from patients with endometriosis.

The eutopic endometrium provides novel insights into endometriotic pathophysiology and treatment. However, no in vivo models currently available are suitable for eutopic endometrium in endometriosis. In this study, we present new endometriotic in vivo models associated with eutopic endometrium using menstrual blood-derived stromal cells (MenSCs).

Actinobacteria Community and Their Antibacterial and Cytotoxic Activity on the Weizhou and Xieyang Volcanic Islands in the Beibu Gulf of China.

Weizhou Island and Xieyang Island are two large and young volcanic sea islands in the northern part of the South China Sea. In this study, high-throughput sequencing (HTS) of 16S rRNA genes was used to explore the diversity of Actinobacteria in the Weizhou and Xieyang Islands. Moreover, a traditional culture-dependent method was utilized to isolate Actinobacteria, and their antibacterial and cytotoxic activities were detected.

Identifying Quantitative Trait Loci and Candidate Genes Conferring Resistance to SC7 by Quantitative Trait Loci-Sequencing in Soybean.

(SMV) is detrimental to soybean () breeding, seed quality, and yield worldwide. Improving the basic resistance of host plants is the most effective and economical method to reduce damage from SMV. Therefore, it is necessary to identify and clone novel SMV resistance genes.

Genome assembly of primitive cultivated potato Solanum stenotomum provides insights into potato evolution.

Genetic diversity is the raw material for germplasm enhancement. Landraces and wild species relatives of potato, which contain a rich gene pool of valuable agronomic traits, can provide insights into the genetic diversity behind the adaptability of the common potato. The diploid plant, Solanum stenotomum (Sst), is believed to have an ancestral relationship with modern potato cultivars and be a potential source of resistance against disease.

Arsenic induces gender difference of estrogen receptor in AECII cells from ICR fetal mice.

Arsenic is a confirmed human lung carcinogen with estrogenic activity. There are gender differences in the incidence of lung cancer. Estrogen receptors (ER) play an important role in the process of the development of lung cancer.

[Gender-dependent Expression of ERβ in AEC Ⅱ of Fetal Mice Exposed to Arsenic and Estrogen Receptor Antagonist].

Objective: To determine the effects of arsenic and estrogen receptor antagonist (ICI182, 780) on the expression of estrogen receptor beta (ERβ) in alveolar Ⅱ epithelial cells (AECⅡ) of female and male mice.

Methods: Nineteen or twenty day fetus mice were obtained through caesarean section of ICR mice. Purified AECⅡ cells were separated from the female and male fetus,respectively,and confirmed using immunofluorescence staining.

[Identification of the meiotic events in grasshopper spermatogenesis].

The grasshoppers are ideal materials to study various meiotic stages of spermatogenesis due to their easy availability, fairly large chromosomes, and fewer numbers of chromosomes. It is easy to make temporary squash preparation of grasshopper testes; however, it is usually difficult for the beginners to differentiate between stages of meiosis. In view of this, we demonstrated the method of identification of meiotic stages by chromosome number and chromosome conformation, taking spermatogonial meiosis of Locusta migratoria manilensis as an example.