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Jian-Wen Qiu is a researcher affiliated with Hong Kong Baptist University in China, with a substantial publication record primarily focused on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their scholarly work spans various subfields such as ecology, oceanography, global and planetary change, molecular biology, and insect science.

Their research covers several main topics including coral and marine ecosystems studies, marine biology and ecology research, marine and coastal plant biology, marine bivalve and aquaculture studies, genomics and phylogenetic studies, marine and fisheries research, and microbial community ecology and physiology.

Qiu has contributed to numerous papers, with notable recent publications including:

  • The Scaly-foot Snail genome and implications for the origins of biomineralised armour (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Host-Endosymbiont Genome Integration in a Deep-Sea Chemosymbiotic Clam (2020, Molecular Biology and Evolution)
  • Hologenome analysis reveals dual symbiosis in the deep-sea hydrothermal vent snail Gigantopelta aegis (2021, Nature Communications)
  • Jellyfish genomes reveal distinct homeobox gene clusters and conservation of small RNA processing (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Genomic Signatures Supporting the Symbiosis and Formation of Chitinous Tube in the Deep-Sea Tubeworm Paraescarpia echinospica (2021, Molecular Biology and Evolution)

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated extensively with Qiu include Jack Chi-Ho Ip, Jin Sun, Pei-Yuan Qian, Chong Chen, and Ting Xu.

Qiu's research appears regularly in several publication venues with the highest number of works in the following journals:

  • Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • PubMed
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Regional Studies in Marine Science

This body of work situates Jian-Wen Qiu as an active contributor to fields focusing on marine and environmental sciences, integrating genomic and ecological perspectives to advance understanding of marine biodiversity and symbiotic relationships in deep-sea environments.

Best Publications

  • Adaptation to deep-sea chemosynthetic environments as revealed by mussel genomes

    Jin Sun;Jin Sun;Yu Zhang;Ting Xu;Yang Zhang

  • Insights from an Integrated View of the Biology of Apple Snails (Caenogastropoda: Ampullariidae)

    Kenneth A. Hayes;Kenneth A. Hayes;Kenneth A. Hayes;Romi L. Burks;Alfredo Castro-Vazquez;Philip C. Darby

  • Acute toxicities of five commonly used antifouling booster biocides to selected subtropical and cosmopolitan marine species

    Vivien W.W. Bao;Kenneth M.Y. Leung;Jian-Wen Qiu;Michael H.W. Lam

  • Lead in paddy soils and rice plants and its potential health risk around Lechang Lead/Zinc Mine, Guangdong, China

    Q. W. Yang;W. S. Shu;Jianwen Qiu;H. B. Wang

  • Energy content at metamorphosis and growth rate of the early juvenile barnacle Balanus amphitrite

    Vengatesen Thiyagarajan;Tilmann Harder;Jianwen Qiu;Jianwen Qiu;Peiyuan Qian

  • Environmental factors influencing the distribution of total and fecal coliform bacteria in six water storage reservoirs in the Pearl River Delta Region, China.

    Huachang Hong;Jianwen Qiu;Yan Liang

  • Cadmium contamination in orchard soils and fruit trees and its potential health risk in Guangzhou, China

    J. T. Li;Jianwen Qiu;X. W. Wang;Y. Zhong

  • Using Bathymodiolus tissue stable carbon, nitrogen and sulfur isotopes to infer biogeochemical process at a cold seep in the South China Sea

    Dong Feng;Ming Cheng;Steffen Kiel;Jian Wen Qiu

  • The Scaly-foot Snail genome and implications for the origins of biomineralised armour.

    Jin Sun;Chong Chen;Norio Miyamoto;Runsheng Li

  • Ontogenetic changes in hyposaline tolerance in the mussels Mytilus edulis and M. trossulus: implications for distribution

    Jian-Wen Qiu;Réjean Tremblay;Edwin Bourget

  • Proteomic basis of stress responses in the gills of the pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas.

    Yang Zhang;Jin Sun;Huawei Mu;Jun Li

  • Impact of invasive apple snails in Hong Kong on wetland macrophytes, nutrients, phytoplankton and filamentous algae.

    Ling Fang;Ling Fang;Pak Ki Wong;Li Lin;Chongyu Lan

  • Combined effects of salinity, temperature and food on early development of the polychaete Hydroides elegans

    Jianwen Qiu;Peiyuan Qian

  • Ecological risk assessments of endocrine disrupting organotin compounds using marine neogastropods in Hong Kong.

    Kenneth M.Y. Leung;Rita P.Y. Kwong;W. C. Ng;Toshihiro Horiguchi

  • Occurrence of Halogenated Flame Retardants in Sediment off an Urbanized Coastal Zone: Association with Urbanization and Industrialization

    Hui Hui Liu;Yuan Jie Hu;Pei Luo;Lian Jun Bao

  • Tolerance of the barnacle Balanus amphitrite amphitrite to salinity and temperature stress: effects of previous experience

    Jian-Wen Qiu;Pei-Yuan Qian

  • Host-Endosymbiont Genome Integration in a Deep-Sea Chemosymbiotic Clam

    Jack Chi-Ho Ip;Jack Chi-Ho Ip;Ting Xu;Ting Xu;Jin Sun;Runsheng Li

  • High-throughput transcriptome sequencing of the cold seep mussel Bathymodiolus platifrons.

    Yue Him Wong;Jin Sun;Li Sheng He;Lian Guo Chen

  • Signatures of Divergence, Invasiveness, and Terrestrialization Revealed by Four Apple Snail Genomes

    Jin Sun;Huawei Mu;Jack C H Ip;Runsheng Li

  • The Potential of the Invasive Snail Pomacea canaliculata as a Predator of Various Life-Stages of Five Species of Freshwater Snails

    King Lun Kwong;Robert K Y Chan;Jianwen Qiu

  • Novel animal defenses against predation: a snail egg neurotoxin combining lectin and pore-forming chains that resembles plant defense and bacteria attack toxins.

    Marcos Sebastian Dreon;Marcos Sebastian Dreon;Maria Victoria Frassa;Marcelo Raul Ceolin;Santiago Ituarte

  • Secondary production and diet of an invasive snail in freshwater wetlands: implications for resource utilization and competition

    King Lun Kwong;David Dudgeon;Pak Ki Wong;Jian-Wen Qiu

  • Molecular adaptation in the world's deepest‐living animal: Insights from transcriptome sequencing of the hadal amphipod Hirondellea gigas

    Yi Lan;Jin Sun;Renmao Tian;Douglas H. Bartlett

Frequent Co-Authors

Pei-Yuan Qian
Pei-Yuan Qian Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Kenneth M.Y. Leung
Kenneth M.Y. Leung City University of Hong Kong
Vengatesen Thiyagarajan
Vengatesen Thiyagarajan University of Hong Kong
Chris K.C. Wong
Chris K.C. Wong Hong Kong Baptist University
Siu Gin Cheung
Siu Gin Cheung City University of Hong Kong
Paul K.S. Lam
Paul K.S. Lam Hong Kong Metropolitan University
Ka Hou Chu
Ka Hou Chu Chinese University of Hong Kong
Tiangang Luan
Tiangang Luan Sun Yat-sen University
Wen-Xiong Wang
Wen-Xiong Wang City University of Hong Kong
Ming Hung Wong
Ming Hung Wong Education University of Hong Kong

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