Wei Zhu
Chinese Academy of Sciences
44 Papers
16 Citations
Wei Zhu is an academic researcher from Chinese Academy of Sciences. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biology & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 19 publications. Previous affiliations of Wei Zhu include College of Fisheries.
Chat about Author
Papers
Remarkable metabolic reorganization and altered metabolic requirements in frog metamorphic climax.
TL;DR: The energic strategy and anabolic requirements during metamorphic climax were revealed at the molecular level and provide background information for ecological, evolutionary, conservation, and developmental studies of amphibians.
Characterizing the composition, metabolism and physiological functions of the fatty liver in Rana omeimontis tadpoles
Wei Zhu,Meihua Zhang,Liming Chang,Wenbo Zhu,Cheng Li,Feng Xie,Huan Zhang,Tian Zhao,Jianping Jiang +8 more
TL;DR: This is the first report that liver can be the primary fat depot in vertebrates with higher evolutionary status than bony fish and showed that the hepatic reserves of tadpoles, especially TG content, may provide body condition signals to modulate metamorphosis.
44
The Behavior of Amphibians Shapes Their Symbiotic Microbiomes.
Liangliang Xu,Liangliang Xu,Mengmeng Xiang,Wei Zhu,Mengjie Zhang,Mengjie Zhang,Hua Chen,Jin Huang,Youhua Chen,Qing Chang,Jianping Jiang,Lifeng Zhu +11 more
- 28 Jul 2020
TL;DR: This study demonstrated that the behavior and living environment of wild amphibians shape their symbiotic microbiome externally (on the skin) and internally (in the stomach and gut) and revealed the potential association between specific behaviors in poikilothermic animals and host symbiotic microbiomes.
37
Environmental Temperatures Affect the Gastrointestinal Microbes of the Chinese Giant Salamander.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the potential effect of temperature on the gastrointestinal microbiome community of giant salamanders and found the significant interaction between sampling time and temperature, or type (stomach and gut) on Shannon index.
Transcriptomics reveals the molecular processes of light-induced rapid darkening of the non-obligate cave dweller Oreolalax rhodostigmatus (Megophryidae, Anura) and their genetic basis of pigmentation strategy.
TL;DR: This study suggested that rapid MCC was responsible for the light-induced rapid darkening of O. rhodostigmatus tadpoles, the first study that reports the association between pigmentation phenotype adaptation and MC1R mutations in amphibians and/or in non-obligate cave dwellers.