三级aa视频在线观看-三级国产-三级国产精品一区二区-三级国产三级在线-三级国产在线

USEUROPEAFRICAASIA 中文雙語(yǔ)Fran?ais
China
Home / China / Newsmaker

'Insect man' hits it big

By Liu Kun and Zhou Lihua in Wuhan | China Daily | Updated: 2016-12-23 07:44

'Insect man' hits it big

Tian Junhua collects insects during a field trip in Hubei province.[Photo provided to China Daily]

Scientist with love for bugs helped discover thousands of viruses

Tian Junhua has been studying insects ever since he was a little boy, but he never imagined that one day his name might appear in one of the world's top academic journals. Last month, renowned scientific journal Nature published an article entitled Redefining the Invertebrate RNA Virosphere, reporting the discovery of 1,445 viruses that use ribonucleic acid as their genetic material by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

Tian, from the Wuhan City CDCP in Hubei province, was one of the authors of the article. The 36-year-old, a researcher at the center's institute for disinfection and vector control, is also known by the nickname "insect man".

Born in the countryside near Jingmen, Hubei province, his childhood was mostly spent outdoors. "We didn't have extracurricular classes like children living in the city did," he said. "All of our games were based in the fields."

Playing alongside a river and in the fields every day, he would often catch all kinds of insects and creepy-crawlies-gradually developing a skill for it. In the summer, he said he could easily catch 10 kilograms of freshwater prawns every day. "When I was a child, I liked watching and catching all kinds of animals, especially bugs," he said.

In 2000, Tian enrolled at Huazhong Agricultural University to study insect taxonomy. Few students choose to specialize in this branch of biology concerned with classification, Tian said, as it is difficult to get funding and make scientific breakthroughs.

But he studied enthusiastically and had confidence in his chosen profession. After graduating in 2004, Tian began working for the disease control and prevention center, where he monitored, identified and classified pests and disease carriers such as mosquitoes, mice and cockroaches.

Five years later, he had caught thousands of rodents in the surrounding fields and mountains, and knew every species distributed around Wuhan. He can now judge at a glance whether an area is likely to contain mice and his work has provided ample research samples to be used for disease prevention and control. By Tian's own estimate, he has collected almost 1 million insect and animal samples over the past 12 years.

But collecting can be dangerous. Once, while catching wasps with a net on Mount Jiufeng, Hubei province, he was attacked by the insects. They badly stung his left cheek, which remained swollen for two weeks. "The wasp is very powerful and aggressive and can even sting through a thick bag filled with ice," he said. "It was truly scary."

After a spate of tick-borne diseases hit Henan and Shandong provinces in 2009, Tian was sent by the CDCP to investigate as part of a research group. He worked for more than 20 days straight, collecting samples. Over the following four years he and his colleagues collected about 120,000 ticks, which provided material to help with the clinical diagnosis of tick bites.

It was during this period that Tian discovered a previously unknown virus in his hometown, which was named "Jingmen virus" after it.

Tian's dedication to his work means that he often spends long hours in the laboratory, away from his son.

In fact, if the boy needs his homework checked he takes a picture of it on his mobile phone and sends it to his father via WeChat. Whenever the two are together, however, they like to go out and catch insects, Tian said.

Chen Liang contributed to this story.

Editor's picks
Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263

Registration Number: 130349
FOLLOW US
 
主站蜘蛛池模板: 麻豆国内精品欧美在线 | 日本在线观看一级高清片 | 日韩欧美一区二区三区视频 | 九九99久久精品影视 | 亚洲黄色视屏 | 国产综合影院 | 亚洲成年人网址 | 在线观看国产精美视频 | 精品亚洲一区二区在线播放 | 在线视频一区二区三区四区 | 欧美日韩黄色片 | 久久青青草原综合伊人 | 曰批美女免费视频播放 | 正在播放国产大学生情侣 | 国产精品视频一区日韩丝袜 | 亚洲国产精品午夜电影 | 国产伦精品一区二区三区视频小说 | 欧美真人毛片动作视频 | 51国产午夜精品免费视频 | 日本美女一区二区 | 国产酒店视频 | 亚洲高清毛片 | 日韩高清在线免费观看 | 香蕉在线视频观看 | 亚洲综合激情六月婷婷在线观看 | 成人午夜爽爽爽免费视频 | 网站视频大片www | 免费国产黄色片 | 亚洲精品九色在线网站 | 国产欧美一区二区三区在线 | 黄色网址国产 | 亚洲欧美日韩特级毛片 | 三级视频网站在线观看播放 | 亚洲国产精品毛片∧v卡在线 | 欧美性生大片免费观看 | xxxx色| 欧美成人免费草草影院 | 国外欧美一区另类中文字幕 | 又爽又黄又无遮挡的视频美女软件 | 91小视频在线观看免费版高清 | se视频在线观看 |