J. Lian

Latitudinal scaling of aggregation with abundance and its consequences for coexistence in species rich forests

The paper examines latitudinal patterns in species aggregation and abundance, showing how these patterns affect coexistence in forests and introduces a framework to model their impact on extinction risk.

Latitude influences stability via stabilizing mechanisms in naturally-assembled forest ecosystems at different spatial grains

The paper examines how latitude affects ecosystem stability in forests across different spatial scales, finding that species asynchrony and stability play key roles, with latitude influencing these mechanisms to counteract species richness effects.

A latitudinal pattern of plant leaf-associated bacterial community assembly

The paper identifies a latitudinal gradient in plant leaf-associated bacterial communities, showing host-driven selection at high latitudes and multiple factors at low latitudes.

Preferential lipolysis of DGAT1 over DGAT2 generated triacylglycerol in Huh7 hepatocytes

The paper investigates the preferential lipolysis of triacylglycerol (TG) generated by DGAT1 versus DGAT2 in Huh7 hepatocytes, finding that DGAT1-TG is preferentially targeted for fatty acid oxidation.

Species packing and the latitudinal gradient in beta-diversity

The paper tests whether beta-diversity contributes to the latitudinal gradient in species richness by analyzing tree species data across East Asia.

The biosynthetic gene cluster of the C-nucleoside antibiotic pyrazomycin with a rare pyrazole moiety

This study identifies the gene cluster and key enzymes involved in pyrazomycin biosynthesis in Streptomyces candidus, revealing the role of PyrR as a transcriptional activator and PyrN as a nitrogen-nitrogen bond-forming enzyme.