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Overview

Jun Yu is affiliated with the Chinese University of Hong Kong in China and has a strong research background primarily in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with marked contributions to medicine.

Their research spans multiple subfields including molecular biology, plant science, infectious diseases, genetics, and environmental pollution. Key topics in their work cover microplastics and plastic pollution, genomics and phylogenetic studies, nanoparticles synthesis and applications, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, genomics related to rare diseases, genetics of aging and longevity in model organisms, and gut microbiota and health.

Frequent publication venues for Jun Yu include:

  • Genomics Proteomics & Bioinformatics
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Gastroenterology
  • Optics and Precision Engineering

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Jun Yu are Ming Xiao, Le Zhang, Yanan Chu, Yu Kang, and Zhang Zhang.

Some of Jun Yu's recent papers are:

  • Coastal zone use influences the spatial distribution of microplastics in Hangzhou Bay, China (2020, Environmental Pollution)
  • Photoaged Polystyrene Nanoplastics Result in Transgenerational Reproductive Toxicity Associated with the Methylation of Histone H3K4 and H3K9 in Caenorhabditis elegans (2023, Environmental Science & Technology)
  • Intermittent Fasting Improves Lipid Metabolism Through Changes in Gut Microbiota in Diet-Induced Obese Mice (2020, Medical Science Monitor)
  • Genome Assembly and Pathway Analysis of Edible Mushroom Agrocybe Cylindracea (2020, Genomics Proteomics & Bioinformatics)
  • 2019nCoVAS: Developing the Web Service for Epidemic Transmission Prediction, Genome Analysis, and Psychological Stress Assessment for 2019-nCoV (2021, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics)

Best Publications

  • A haplotype map of the human genome

    John W. Belmont;Andrew Boudreau;Suzanne M. Leal;Paul Hardenbol

  • A second generation human haplotype map of over 3.1 million SNPs

    Kelly A. Frazer;Dennis G. Ballinger;David R. Cox;David A. Hinds

  • A draft sequence of the rice genome (Oryza sativa L. ssp indica)

    Stephen A. Goff;Darrell Ricke;Tien-Hung Lan;Gernot Presting

  • A draft sequence of the rice genome (Oryza sativa L. ssp. indica) : The rice genome

    Jun Yu;Songnian Hu;Mengliang Cao;Jing Liu

  • Sequence and comparative analysis of the chicken genome provide unique perspectives on vertebrate evolution

    Ladeana W. Hillier;Webb Miller;Ewan Birney;Wesley Warren

  • Genome-wide detection and characterization of positive selection in human populations

    Pardis C. Sabeti;Pardis C. Sabeti;Patrick Varilly;Patrick Varilly;Ben Fry;Jason Lohmueller

  • VFDB: a reference database for bacterial virulence factors.

    Lihong Chen;Jian Yang;Jun Yu;Zhijian Yao

  • KaKs_Calculator 2.0: a toolkit incorporating gamma-series methods and sliding window strategies.

    Dapeng Wang;Yubin Zhang;Yubin Zhang;Zhang Zhang;Jiang Zhu;Jiang Zhu

  • A draft sequence for the genome of the domesticated silkworm (Bombyx mori).

    Qingyou Xia;Zeyang Zhou;Cheng Lu

  • KaKs_Calculator: calculating Ka and Ks through model selection and model averaging.

    Zhang Zhang;Jun Li;Xiao-Qian Zhao;Jun Wang;Jun Wang

  • The Genomes of Oryza sativa: a history of duplications.

    Jun Yu;Jun Yu;Jun Wang;Jun Wang;Wei Lin;Songgang Li;Songgang Li

  • A brief review on the mechanisms of miRNA regulation.

    Yimei Cai;Xiaomin Yu;Songnian Hu;Jun Yu

  • Genome sequence and genetic diversity of the common carp, Cyprinus carpio.

    Peng Xu;Xiaofeng Zhang;Xumin Wang;Jiongtang Li

  • Identification of natural compounds with antiviral activities against SARS-associated coronavirus

    Shi You Li;Cong Chen;Hai Qing Zhang;Hai Yan Guo

  • The Schistosoma japonicum genome reveals features of host-parasite interplay

    Yan Zhou;Huajun Zheng;Yangyi Chen;Lei Zhang

  • A genetic variation map for chicken with 2.8 million single-nucleotide polymorphisms

    Gane Ka Shu Wong;Gane Ka Shu Wong;Gane Ka Shu Wong;Bin Liu;Jun Wang;Jun Wang;Yong Zhang;Yong Zhang

  • PGAP: Pan-Genomes Analysis Pipeline

    Yongbing Zhao;Jiayan Wu;Junhui Yang;Shixiang Sun

  • Pigs in sequence space: a 0.66X coverage pig genome survey based on shotgun sequencing.

    Rasmus Wernersson;Mikkel H Schierup;Frank G Jørgensen;Jan Gorodkin

  • A glimpse of streptococcal toxic shock syndrome from comparative genomics of S. suis 2 Chinese isolates.

    Chen Chen;Chen Chen;Jiaqi Tang;Wei Dong;Wei Dong;Changjun Wang

  • Mammalian uroplakins. A group of highly conserved urothelial differentiation-related membrane proteins.

    Xue-Ru Wu;Jun-Hsiang Lin;T. Walz;M. Häner

Frequent Co-Authors

Songnian Hu
Songnian Hu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Gane Ka-Shu Wong
Gane Ka-Shu Wong University of Alberta
huanming yang
huanming yang Beijing Genomics Institute
Jingfa Xiao
Jingfa Xiao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zhang Zhang
Zhang Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Siqi Liu
Siqi Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jing Wang
Jing Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jun Wang
Jun Wang University of Central Florida
Yong Zhang
Yong Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Tung-Tien Sun
Tung-Tien Sun New York University

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