Effects of Bacterial Infections under Heatwaves on Chinese Soft-Shelled Turtles and Their Single-Cell Transcriptomic Landscapes

• Published in: Environmental science & technology Vol. 59; no. 17; pp. 8357 - 8367
• Main Authors: Chen, Jing-Yi, Meng, Qing-Yan, Qian, Wei, Qu, Yan-Fu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Chemical Society 06.05.2025
• Subjects: Animals; antioxidants; Bacillus cereus; Bacteria; Bacterial diseases; Bacterial infections; Bacterial Infections - veterinary; blood platelets; Climate change; Clustering; Ecotoxicology and Public Health; Environmental conditions; environmental science; Erythrocytes; extinction; Gene expression; Global warming; Heat waves; heterophils; Hot Temperature; Immune response; Immune system; Infections; Leukocytes (basophilic); Lymphocytes; Lymphocytes B; Lymphocytes T; Monocytes; Opportunist infection; Pelodiscus sinensis; Peripheral blood; Physiology; Platelets; Principal components analysis; Reptiles & amphibians; species; Species extinction; technology; temperature; Testudines; Thrombocytes; Transcriptome; Transcriptomes; Transcriptomics; Turtles; Turtles - microbiology; Wildlife; Pelodiscus sinensis; Bacillus cereus; turtle; heatwaves; single-cell transcriptome; peripheral blood; immunology

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