Research Publications - 2021 Quarter 4

 

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From October to December 2021, Hong Kong Branch funded projects have published 34 SCI research articles.

  1. Dynamics of trace metals with different size species in the Pearl River Estuary, Southern China
    Author(s): Ziming Fang, Wen-Xiong Wang*
    Source: Science of The Total Environment, v.807, Part 1, February 2022, 150712
     
  2. Australian fire nourishes ocean phytoplankton bloom
    Author(s): Yuntao Wang, Huan-Huan Chen, Rui Tang, Ding He, Zhongping Lee, Huijie Xue, Mark Wells, Emmanuel Boss, Fei Chai*
    Source: Science of The Total Environment, v.807, Part 1, February 2022, 150775
     
  3. An auxin-like supermolecule to simultaneously enhance growth and cumulative eicosapentaenoic acid production in Phaeodactylum tricornutum
    Author(s): Zhenyao Wang, Jinhua Mou, Zihao Qin, Yuhe He, Zheng Sun, Xiang Wang, Carol Sze Ki Lin*
    Source: Bioresource Technology, v. 345, February 2022, 126564
     
  4. Host–symbiont transcriptomic changes during natural bleaching and recovery in the leaf coral Pavona decussata
    Author(s): Yanjie Zhang, Jack Chi-Ho Ip, James Y. Xie, Yip Hung Yeung, Yanan Sun, Jian-Wen Qiu*
    Source: Science of the Total Environment, v. 806, Part 2, February 2022, 150656
     
  5. A waste upcycling loop: Two-factor adaptive evolution of microalgae to increase polyunsaturated fatty acid production using food waste
    Author(s): Xiang Wang, Si-Fen Liu, Zhen-Yao Wang, Ting-Bin Hao, Srinivasan Balamurugan, Da-Wei Li, Yuhe He, Hong-Ye Li*, Carol Sze Ki­Lin*
    Source: Journal of Cleaner Production, v. 331, January 2022, 130018
     
  6. Cu-based nanoparticle toxicity to zebrafish cells regulated by cellular discharges
    Author(s): Xiangrui Wang, Wen-Xiong Wang*
    Source: Environmental Pollution, v. 292, Part A, January 2022, 118296
     
  7. Prochlorococcus have low global mutation rate and small effective population size
    Author(s): Zhuoyu Chen, Xiaojun Wang, Yu Song, Qinglu Zeng, Yao Zhang*, Haiwei Luo*
    Source: Nature Ecology & Evolution, January 2022
     
  8. Characterization of microplastic-associated biofilm development along a freshwater-estuarine gradient
    Author(s): Liyuan Qiang, Jinping Cheng, Seda Mirzoyan, Lee J. Kerkhof, and Max M. Häggblom*
    Source: Environmental Science & Technology, v. 55, (24), January 2022, p. 16402–16412
     
  9. Release of Microplastics from Disposal Surgical Masks and Their Adverse Impacts on the Marine Copepod Tigriopus japonicus
    Author(s): Jiaji Sun, Shiyi Yang, Guang-Jie Zhou, Kai Zhang, Yichun Lu, Qianqian Jin, Paul K. S. Lam, Kenneth M. Y. Leung, Yuhe He*
    Source: Environmental Science and Technology Letters, v. 8, (12), December 2021, p. 1065-1070
     
  10. Gut-microbial adaptation and transformation of silver nanoparticles mediated the detoxification of Daphnia magna and their offspring
    Author(s): Yingdong Li, Wen-Xiong Wang*, Hongbin Liu*
    Source: Environmental Science: Nano, December 2021
     
  11. Genomic and transcriptomic evidence for the diverse adaptations of subclusters 5.2 and 5.3 Synechococcus to mesoscale eddies
    Author(s): Jiawei Chen, Yingdong Li, Hongmei Jing, Xiaodong Zhang, Zhimeng Xu, Jie Xu, Hongbin Liu*
    Source: New Phytologist, December 2021
     
  12. Evidence of partial thermal compensation in natural phytoplankton assemblages
    Author(s): Kailin Liu, Bingzhang Chen, Hongbin Liu*
    Source: Limnology and Oceanography Letters, December 2021
     
  13. Synthetic Studies toward the Berkeleyacetal Core Architecture
    Author(s): Miguel Adrián Márquez-Cadena, Wei Zhang*, Rongbiao Tong*
    Source: Organic Letters, v. 23, December 2021, p. 9227-9231
     
  14. Sources and composition of riverine dissolved organic matter to marginal seas from mainland China
    Author(s): Zhidan Wen, Yingxin Shang, Lili Lyu, Ge Liu, Junbin Hou, Chen He, Quan Shi, Ding He*, Kaishan Song*
    Source: Journal of Hydrology, v. 603, Part D, December 2021, 127152
     
  15. Description of a new species of Histampica (Ophiuroidea: Ophiothamnidae) from cold seeps in the South China Sea and analysis of its mitochondrial genome
    Author(s): Qihang Li, Yixuan Li, Jieying Na, Xiqiu Han, Gordon L.J.Paterson, Kun Liu, Dongsheng Zhang**, Jian-Wen Qiu*
    Source: Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, v. 178, December 2021, 103658
     
  16. Low temperature sensitivity of picophytoplankton P:B ratios and growth rates across a natural 10°C temperature gradient in the oligotrophic Indian Ocean
    Author(s): Michael R. Landry*, Karen E. Selph, Raleigh R. Hood, Claire H. Davies, Lynnath E. Beckley
    Source: Limnology and Oceanography Letters, November 2021
     
  17. Study of heavy metals and microbial communities in contaminated sediments along an urban estuary
    Author(s): Jun Yi, Linus Shing Him Lo, Hongbin Liu, Pei-Yuan Qian, Jinping Cheng*
    Source: Frontiers in Marine Science, v.8, November 2021, 741912
     
  18. Elevated temperature relieves phosphorus limitation of marine unicellular diazotrophic cyanobacteria
    Author(s): Lixia Deng, Shunyan Cheung*, Chang-Keun Kang, Kailin Liu, Xiaomin Xia, Hongbin Liu*
    Source: Limnology and Oceanography, November 2021
     
  19. Asymmetric Total Synthesis of Indole Diterpenes Paspalicine, Paspalinine, and Paspalinine-13-ene
    Author(s): Lian-Dong Guo, Zejun Xu, Rongbiao Tong*
    Source: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, v. 133, (47), November 2021, p. 25339-25346
     
  20. Catalytic Asymmetric Alkynylation of 3,4-Dihydro-β-carbolinium Ions Enables Collective Total Syntheses of Indole Alkaloids
    Author(s): Lian-Dong Guo, Zejun Xu*, Rongbiao Tong*
    Source: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, v. 60, November 2021, p. 25135– 25142
     
  21. Intracellular Biotransformation of Cu(II)/Cu(I) Explained High Cu Toxicity to Phytoplankton Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
    Author(s): Xiangrui Wang, Wen-Xiong Wang*
    Source: Environmental Science & Technology, v. 55, (21), November 2021, p. 14772–14781
     
  22. High density and secondary production but variable recruitment of a sea urchin in subtidal barren areas of Hong Kong
    Author(s): Juan Diego Urriago Suarez*, Jane C.Y. Wong*, Clement P. Dumont, Jian-Wen Qiu*
    Source: Regional Studies in Marine Science, v. 48, November 2021, 102027
     
  23. Evidence for mixotrophy in pico-chlorophytes from a new Picochlorum (Trebouxiophyceae) strain
    Author(s): Mengwen Pang, Kailin Liu, Hongbin Liu*
    Source: Journal of Phycology, October 2021
     
  24. DNA Metabarcoding Revealed Interspecific Dietary Difference and Prey Selectivity in Juvenile Horseshoe Crabs Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda and Tachypleus tridentatus From Hong Kong
    Author(s): Bo Yee Lee, Kaori Wakabayashi, Simon Yung Wa Sin†, Susumu Ohtsuka, Ling Ming Tsang*
    Source: Frontiers in Marine Science, v. 8, October 2021, 752806
     
  25. Battling the Known Unknowns: A Synoptic Review of Aquatic Plastics Research from Australia, the U.K. and China
    Author(s): Harriet L. Paterson, Jessica L. Stead, Thomas Crutchett, Renae K. Hovey, Benjamin M. Ford, Peter Speldewinde, Lina M. Zapata-Restrepo, Lu Yanfang, Xiaoyu Zhange, Andrew B. Cundy*
    Source: Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts, v. 23, October 2021, p. 1663-1680
     
  26. Synthesis of the C19–C30 bis-THF fragment of iriomoteolide-13a via stepwise SN2 cyclization and intramolecular syn-oxypalladation
    Author(s): Hui Zhao‡§, Kai Gao‡, Haichen Ma, Tsz Chun Yip, Wei-Min Dai*
    Source: Organic Chemistry Frontiers, v. 8, October 2021, p. 6491-6498
     
  27. Density currents affect the vertical evolution of dissolved organic matter chemistry in a large tributary of the Three Gorges Reservoir during the water-level rising period
    Author(s): Kai Wang, Penghui Li, Chen He, Quan Shi, Ding He*
    Source: Water Research, v. 204, October 2021, 117609
     
  28. A new species of the sun coral genus Tubastraea (Scleractinia: Dendrophylliidae) from Hong Kong
    Author(s): Sam King Fung Yiu, Sheena Suet-Wah Chung, Jian-Wen Qiu*
    Source: Zootaxa, v. 5047, (1), September 2021, p. 1-16
     
  29. Isoscape models of the Southern Ocean: Predicting spatial and temporal variability in carbon and nitrogen isotope compositions of particulate organic matter
    Author(s): Katie St John Glew, Boris Espinasse*, Brian P. V. Hunt, Evgeny A. Pakhomov, Sarah J. Bury, Matt Pinkerton, Scott D. Nodder, Andres Gutiérrez-Rodríguez, Karl Safi, Julie C. S. Brown, Laura Graham, Robert B. Dunbar, David A. Mucciarone, Sarah Magozzi, Chris Somes, Clive N. Trueman
    Source:Global Biogeochemical Cycles, v. 35, (9), September 2021, e2020GB006901
     
  30. An in vitro vesicle formation assay reveals novel cargo clients and factors that mediate vesicular trafficking
    Author(s): Yan Huang1, Haidi Yin1, Baiying Li1, Qian Wu, Yang Liu, Kristina Poljak, Julija Maldutyte, Xiao Tang, Mo Wang, Zhixiao Wu, Elizabeth A. Miller, Liwen Jiang, Zhong-Ping Yao*, Yusong Guo*
    Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v. 118, (35), August 2021, e2101287118
     
  31. Varying degrees of homostructurality in a series of cocrystals of anti­malarial drug 11-aza­artemisinin with salicylic acids
    Author(s): Monalisa Roy, Keyao Li, Madiha Nisar, Lawrence W.-Y. Wong, Herman H.-Y. Sung, Richard K. Haynesa, Ian D. Williams*
    Source: Acta Crystallographica Section C: Structural Chemistry, v. 77, (6), June 2021, p. 262-270
     
  32. Alternative Splicing of Three Genes Encoding Mechanotransduction-Complex Proteins in Auditory Hair Cells
    Author(s): Zijing Zhou, Xiaojie Yu, Biaobin Jiang, Wanying Feng, Ye Tian, Zhiyong Liu, Jiguang Wang, Pingbo Huang*
    Source:eNeuro, v. 8, (1), February 2021
     
  33. Unlocking the potential of marine biodiscovery
    Author(s): Julia D. Sigwart*, Robert Blasiak, Marcel Jaspars*, Jean-Baptiste Jouffray, Deniz Tasdemir
    Source: Natural Product Reports, v. 38, December 2020, p. 1235-1242
     
  34. Deafness mutation D572N of TMC1 destabilizes TMC1 expression by disrupting LHFPL5 binding
    Author(s): Xiaojie Yu, Qirui Zhao, Xiaofen Li, Yixuan Chen, Ye Tian, Shuang Liu, Wei Xiong, Pingbo Huang1
    Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v. 117, (47), November 2020, p. 29894-29903