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An Overview of the Firefly Genus Pygoluciola Wittmer, a Phylogeny of the Luciolinae Using Mitochondrial Genomes, a Description of Six New Species, and an Assessment of a Copulation Clamp in This Genus (Coleoptera: Lampyridae: Luciolinae) Open

Xinhua Fu, Lesley Ballantyne · 2025

Pygoluciola Wittmer 1939 is overviewed, with an expanded generic redescription comprising 28 species, including 6 new species from China, described from features of males, associated females, and larvae. Their placement in the genus is con…

Key homeobox transcription factors regulate the development of the firefly’s adult light organ and bioluminescence Open

Xinhua Fu, Xinlei Zhu · 2024

Sperm Competition and Paternity in the Endangered Firefly Pyrocoelia pectoralis (Coleoptera: Lampyridae: Lampyrinae) Open

Xinhua Fu, Victor Benno Meyer‐Rochow, Lesley Ballantyne, Xinlei Zhu, Q.L. Zhang · 2024

The endangered terrestrial firefly Pyrocoelia pectoralis (Olivier) is endemic to China. Populations of P. pectoralis have decreased dramatically due to urbanization and pollution. Breeding and re-introduction to a suitable habitat may save…

An Improved Chromosome-Level Genome Assembly of the Firefly Pyrocoelia pectoralis Open

Xinhua Fu, Victor Benno Meyer‐Rochow, Lesley Ballantyne, Xinlei Zhu · 2024

The endemic and endangered Chinese firefly Pyrocoelia pectoralis is a sexually dimorphic, nocturnal species. A previous attempt by this team to assemble a draft genome of P. pectoralis using PacBio and Illumina HiSeq X Ten platforms was li…

An Overview of Aquatica Fu et al., a Phylogeny of Aquatic Fireflies Using Mitochondrial Genomes, a Description of Two New Species, and a New Record of Aquatic Fireflies in China (Coleoptera: Lampyridae: Luciolinae) Open

Xinhua Fu, Lesley Ballantyne · 2024

There are now seven species in the genus Aquatica Fu & Ballantyne, with all but one known from the characteristics of males, females, and larvae. Molecular information is combined with morphological taxonomy for the delimitation of both ge…

Key homeobox transcription factors regulate firefly adult light organ development and bioluminescence Open

Xinhua Fu, Xinlei Zhu · 2023

The fascinating flashing courtship signals of adult fireflies are emitted by unique adult light organs1, 2, 3, which develop quite independently to larval light organs in the pupal stage4. Keys to the development of adult light organs and …

The complete mitochondrial genome of the firefly Curtos fulvocapitalis (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) Open

Wei Li, Quan Liu, Xinhua Fu · 2021

We report the complete mitochondrial genome of the firefly Curtos fulvocapitalis Jeng et Yang 1998. The circular genome is 16,398 bp and has a base composition of A (42.21%), C (11.22%), G (7.73%), and T (38.85%). Our sequence is si…

Reproductive Systems, Transfer and Digestion of Spermatophores in Two Asian Luciolinae Fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) Open

Xinhua Fu, Lesley Ballantyne · 2021

The internal reproductive anatomy of males and females of two Asian Luciolinae fireflies Emeia pseudosauteri (Geisthardt, 2004) and Abscondita chinensis (L., 1767) is described, and the time course for spermatophore transfer and digestion …

Selection and Validation of Suitable Reference Genes for RT-qPCR Analysis in the Rare Aquatic Firefly Aquatica leii (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) Open

Xinhua Fu, Victor Benno Meyer‐Rochow · 2021

Aquatica leii Fu and Ballantyne is a species of rare aquatic firefly and endemic in China. It is considered good material to study the molecular mechanism of sexual flash communication systems. To improve conservation and behavioral resear…

The genetic variations in the mitochondrial genomes of three Luciolinae fireflies Open

Quan Liu, Xinhua Fu · 2020

This paper studied the complete mitochondrial genomes of three fireflies, Pygoluciola qingyu, Emeia pseudosauteri and Abscondita terminalis. We discussed the variations in the mitochondrial genomes of samples of each firefly …

The complete mitochondrial genome of the firefly,Diaphanes citrinus(Olivier), (coleoptera: Lampyridae) Open

Zhuo Yang, Xinhua Fu · 2019

We report the complete mitochondrial genome of firefly, Diaphanes citrinus (Olivier). The circular genome of 18,594 bp and has a base composition of A (41.26%), C (11.64%), G (10.18%), T (36.92%). Similar to other Metazoa, our seque…

Cloning, Overexpression and Characterization of a Catalase from a Marine Acinetobacter Bacterium Open

Wei Wang, Jingjing Sun, Junzhong Liu, Xinhua Fu · 2019

Objective: The marine catalase YS0810CAT gene was cloned and overexpressed from Acinetobacter sp. YS0810, and high stability of the recombinant enzyme was validated, which made it important for potential applications in th…

The complete mitochondrial genome of the firefly, Abscondita chinensis (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) Open

Jialu Wang, Xinhua Fu · 2019

We report the complete mitochondrial genome of Firefly, Abscondita chinensis. The circular genome of 16,309 bp and has a base composition of A (43.63%), C (11.53%), G (8.50%), T (36.31%). Similar to other Metazoa, our sequence contains 13 …

The complete mitochondrial genome of the firefly, Curtos costipennis (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) Open

Jian Zhang, Xinhua Fu · 2019

We report the complete mitochondrial genome of firefly, Curtos costipennis. The circular genome of 16,626 bp and has a base composition of A (44.44%), C (11.36%), G (7.61%), and T (36.58%). Our sequence is similar to other Metazoa, which c…

The complete mitochondrial genome of the firefly, Abscondita anceyi (Olivier) (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) Open

Jinfeng Hu, Xinhua Fu · 2018

We report the complete mitochondrial genome of firefly, Abscondita anceyi (Olivier). The circular genome of 16,519 bp has a base composition of A (43.81%), C (11.80%), G (8.35%), and T (36.03%). Similar to other Metazoa, our sequenc…

The complete mitochondrial genome of the firefly, Luciola curtithorax (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) Open

Jinfeng Hu, Xinhua Fu · 2018

We report the complete mitochondrial genome of firefly, Luciola curtithorax. The circular genome of 16,882 bp has a base composition of A (44.98%), C (11.84%), G (8.15%), and T (35.03%). Our sequence is similar to other Metazoa, whi…

Long-read sequence assembly of the firefly Pyrocoelia pectoralis genome Open

Xinhua Fu, Jingjing Li, Yu Tian, Weipeng Quan, Shu Zhang , et al. · 2017

Background Fireflies are a family of insects within the beetle order Coleoptera, or winged beetles, and they are one of the most well-known and loved insect species because of their bioluminescence. However, the firefly is in danger of ext…

The complete mitochondrial genome of the firefly, Pteroptyx maipo (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) Open

Yadong Fan, Xinhua Fu · 2017

We report the complete mitochondrial genome of firefly, Pteroptyx maipo. The circular genome of 16,127 bp has a base composition of A (44.22%), C (11.60%), G (8.23%) and T (35.96%). Our sequence is similar to other Metazoa, which co…

Identification of Osr2 Transcriptional Target Genes in Palate Development Open

Xinhua Fu, Jingyue Xu, Praneet Chaturvedi, H. Liu, Rulang Jiang , et al. · 2017

Previous studies have identified the odd-skipped related 2 (Osr2) transcription factor as a key intrinsic regulator of palatal shelf growth and morphogenesis. However, little is known about the molecular program acting downstream of Osr2 i…

The complete mitochondrial genome of the firefly, Asymmetricata circumdata (Motschulsky) (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) Open

Xin Luan, Xinhua Fu · 2016

We report the complete mitochondrial genome of firefly, Asymmetricata circumdata (Motschulsky).The circular genome of 15,967 bp has a base composition of A (42.44%), C (12.83%), G (8.79%) and T (36.16%). Similar to other Metazoa, ou…

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