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59
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11304
World Ranking
3299
National Ranking
79

Overview

Jianguo He is affiliated with Sun Yat-sen University in China. Their research primarily focuses on immunology and microbiology, with a significant body of work in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. The subfields of study include immunology, molecular biology, ecology, public health, environmental and occupational health, and infectious diseases.

The main topics addressed in Jianguo He's research cover aquaculture disease management and microbiota, invertebrate immune response mechanisms, mosquito-borne diseases and control, viral infections and vectors, microbial community ecology and physiology, interferon and immune responses, and animal virus infection studies.

Frequent co-authors in their work include:

  • Shaoping Weng
  • Chaozheng Li
  • Xiaopeng Xu
  • Zhijian Huang
  • Dongwei Hou

The scientist publishes frequently in several venues, among the most common being:

  • Aquaculture
  • Fish & Shellfish Immunology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Immunology
  • Communications Biology

Several of Jianguo He's recent papers include:

  • "Microecological Koch's postulates reveal that intestinal microbiota dysbiosis contributes to shrimp white feces syndrome," 2020, Microbiome
  • "PCycDB: a comprehensive and accurate database for fast analysis of phosphorus cycling genes," 2022, Microbiome
  • "Host development overwhelms environmental dispersal in governing the ecological succession of zebrafish gut microbiota," 2021, npj Biofilms and Microbiomes
  • "Vertically stratified methane, nitrogen and sulphur cycling and coupling mechanisms in mangrove sediment microbiomes," 2023, Microbiome
  • "MCycDB: A curated database for comprehensively profiling methane cycling processes of environmental microbiomes," 2022, Molecular Ecology Resources

Best Publications

  • Molecular cloning, characterization and expression analysis of two novel Tolls (LvToll2 and LvToll3) and three putative Spätzle-like Toll ligands (LvSpz1-3) from Litopenaeus vannamei.

    Pei-Hui Wang;Jian-Ping Liang;Zhi-Hua Gu;Ding-Hui Wan

  • Profiling of differentially expressed genes in hepatopancreas of white spot syndrome virus-resistant shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) by suppression subtractive hybridisation.

    Zhi-Ying Zhao;Zhi-Xin Yin;Shao-Ping Weng;Hao-Ji Guan

  • A Novel C-Type Lectin from the Shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei Possesses Anti-White Spot Syndrome Virus Activity

    Zhi-Ying Zhao;Zhi-Xin Yin;Xiao-Peng Xu;Shao-Ping Weng

  • Development of a mandarin fish Siniperca chuatsi fry cell line suitable for the study of infectious spleen and kidney necrosis virus (ISKNV).

    Chuanfu Dong;Shaoping Weng;Xiujuan Shi;Xiaopeng Xu

  • The Two NF-κB Pathways Regulating Bacterial and WSSV Infection of Shrimp.

    Chaozheng Li;Sheng Wang;Jianguo He

  • WSSV-host interaction: Host response and immune evasion.

    Chaozheng Li;Shaoping Weng;Jianguo He

  • RNAi screening identifies a new Toll from shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei that restricts WSSV infection through activating Dorsal to induce antimicrobial peptides.

    Haoyang Li;Bin Yin;Sheng Wang;Qihui Fu

  • A Toll receptor in shrimp.

    Li-Shi Yang;Zhi-Xin Yin;Ji-Xiang Liao;Xian-De Huang

  • Molecular cloning of a C-type lectin (LvLT) from the shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei: Early gene down-regulation after WSSV infection

    Tracy Hoi Tung Ma;Shirley Hiu Kwan Tiu;Jian-Guo He;Siu-Ming Chan

  • Analysis of Litopenaeus vannamei transcriptome using the next-generation DNA sequencing technique.

    Chaozheng Li;Shaoping Weng;Yonggui Chen;Xiaoqiang Yu

  • Identification of a C-type lectin with antiviral and antibacterial activity from pacific white shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei

    Ming Li;Chaozheng Li;Chunxia Ma;Haoyang Li

  • Litopenaeus vannamei tumor necrosis factor receptor-associated factor 6 (TRAF6) responds to Vibrio alginolyticus and white spot syndrome virus (WSSV) infection and activates antimicrobial peptide genes

    Pei-Hui Wang;Ding-Hui Wan;Zhi-Hua Gu;Xie-Xiong Deng

  • Activation of Vago by interferon regulatory factor (IRF) suggests an interferon system-like antiviral mechanism in shrimp.

    Chaozheng Li;Haoyang Li;Yixiao Chen;Yonggui Chen

  • Identification and functional characterization of Dicer2 and five single VWC domain proteins of Litopenaeus vannamei.

    Yi-Hong Chen;Xiao-Ting Jia;Li Zhao;Chao-Zheng Li

  • Cloning and expression analysis of a HSP70 gene from Pacific abalone (Haliotis discus hannai)

    Peizhou Cheng;Xiao Liu;Guofan Zhang;Jianguo He

  • A zebrafish (Danio rerio) model of infectious spleen and kidney necrosis virus (ISKNV) infection

    Xiaopeng Xu;Lichun Zhang;Shaoping Weng;Zhijian Huang

  • Identification and functional study of a shrimp Relish homologue

    Xian-De Huang;Zhi-Xin Yin;Ji-Xiang Liao;Pei-Hui Wang

  • An immune deficiency homolog from the white shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei, activates antimicrobial peptide genes.

    Pei-Hui Wang;Zhi-Hua Gu;Xian-De Huang;Bo-Du Liu

  • Identification and functional study of a shrimp Dorsal homologue.

    Xian-De Huang;Zhi-Xin Yin;Xiao-ting Jia;Jian-ping Liang

  • Characterization of a prophenoloxidase from hemocytes of the shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei that is down-regulated by white spot syndrome virus.

    Hua-Shui Ai;Yong-Chun Huang;Se-Dong Li;Shao-Ping Weng

Frequent Co-Authors

Shaoping Weng
Shaoping Weng Sun Yat-sen University
Xiao-Qiang Yu
Xiao-Qiang Yu South China Normal University
Zhili He
Zhili He Sun Yat-sen University
Anlong Xu
Anlong Xu Beijing University of Chinese Medicine
Gen Hua Yue
Gen Hua Yue National University of Singapore
Jianjun Wang
Jianjun Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Mengfeng Li
Mengfeng Li Sun Yat-sen University
Jimmy Kwang
Jimmy Kwang National University of Singapore

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