Advances in single-cell transcriptomics in animal research

Y Yan, S Zhu, M Jia, X Chen, W Qi, F Gu… - Journal of Animal …, 2024 - Springer
Understanding biological mechanisms is fundamental for improving animal production and
health to meet the growing demand for high-quality protein. As an emerging biotechnology …

Single-cell omics: A new direction for functional genetic research in human diseases and animal models

S Kong, R Li, Y Tian, Y Zhang, Y Lu, Q Ou, P Gao… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Over the past decade, with the development of high-throughput single-cell sequencing
technology, single-cell omics has been emerged as a powerful tool to understand the …

Endothelial cell heterogeneity and microglia regulons revealed by a pig cell landscape at single-cell level

F Wang, P Ding, X Liang, X Ding, CB Brandt… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Pigs are valuable large animal models for biomedical and genetic research, but insights into
the tissue-and cell-type-specific transcriptome and heterogeneity remain limited. By …

Single cell atlas for 11 non-model mammals, reptiles and birds

D Chen, J Sun, J Zhu, X Ding, T Lan, X Wang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The availability of viral entry factors is a prerequisite for the cross-species transmission of
severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Large-scale single-cell …

Intestinal single-cell atlas reveals novel lymphocytes in pigs with similarities to human cells

JE Wiarda, JM Trachsel… - Life science …, 2022 - life-science-alliance.org
Lymphocytes can heavily influence intestinal health, but resolving intestinal lymphocyte
function is challenging as the intestine contains a vastly heterogeneous mixture of cells. Pigs …

SPEED: single-cell pan-species atlas in the light of ecology and evolution for development and diseases

Y Chen, X Zhang, X Peng, Y **, P Ding… - Nucleic acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
It is a challenge to efficiently integrate and present the tremendous amounts of single-cell
data generated from multiple tissues of various species. Here, we create a new database …

[HTML][HTML] Single-cell dynamics of liver development in postnatal pigs

L Rao, L Cai, L Huang - Science Bulletin, 2023 - Elsevier
The postnatal development of the liver, an essential organ for metabolism and immunity,
remains poorly characterized at the single-cell resolution. Here, we generated single …

An optimized FACS-free single-nucleus RNA sequencing (snRNA-seq) method for plant science research

K Wang, C Zhao, S **ang, K Duan, X Chen, X Guo… - Plant Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Recently, single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) provides unprecedented power for
accurately understanding gene expression regulatory mechanisms. However, scRNA-seq …

A high-resolution cell atlas of the domestic pig lung and an online platform for exploring lung single-cell data

L Zhang, J Zhu, H Wang, J **a, P Liu, F Chen… - Journal of Genetics and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The genetically engineered pig is regarded as an optimal source of organ transplantation for
humans and an excellent model for human disease research, given its comparable …

Integrative cross-species analysis of GABAergic neuron cell types and their functions in Alzheimer's disease

S Wang, P Ding, J Yuan, H Wang, X Zhang, D Chen… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Understanding the phenotypic and functional diversity of cerebral cortical GABAergic
neurons requires a comprehensive analysis of key transcriptional signatures and neuronal …