Anhui Normal University

3 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

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Biology

RNAi Interference by dsRNA Injection into Drosophila Embryos
Ekaterini Iordanou 1, Rachana R. Chandran 1, Nicholas Blackstone 1, Lan Jiang 1
1Department of Biological Sciences, Oakland University

RNA interference has been proven very effective to analyze gene function in Drosophila tracheal development. A detailed protocol used by Jiang lab to inject dsRNA into fly embryos to knockdown gene expression is illustrated. This technique has the potential for screening genes required for tissue and organ development in Drosophila.

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JoVE Journal

The Modular Design and Production of an Intelligent Robot Based on a Closed-Loop Control Strategy
Libo Zhang 1, Junjie Zhu 2, Hao Ren 2, Dongdong Liu 3, Dan Meng 4, Yanjun Wu 1, Tiejian Luo 5
1Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2Hunan University, 3Fuyang Normal University, 4Anhui Normal University, 5University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

We present a protocol on modular design and production of intelligent robots to help scientific and technical workers design intelligent robots with special production tasks based on personal needs and individualized design.

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Immunology and Infection

Using Phylogenetic Analysis to Investigate Eukaryotic Gene Origin
Dechun Zhang *1, Xianzhao Kan *2, Sarah Elizabeth Huss 3, Lan Jiang 2, Li-Qing Chen 3, Yibing Hu 4
1Key Laboratory of Three Gorges Regional Plant Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement (CTGU)/Biotechnology Research Center, China Three Gorges University, 2The Institute of Bioinformatics, College of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University, 3Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 4College of Resources & Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University

A method of constructing a phylogenetic tree based on sequence homology of SWEETs from eukaryotes and SemiSWEETs from prokaryotes is described. Phylogenetic analysis is a useful tool for explaining the evolutionary relatedness between homologous proteins or genes from different organism groups.