“…Hence, we have been targeting the heat shock response in the intestine in our previous studies (Xu, Sun, Liu, Zhang & Yang, 2016a; Xu, Sun, Liu, Zhang, Ru, et al. ). In our previous proteomics analysis, expression of many genes involved in AA, lipid and carbohydrate metabolic pathways was significantly changed under HS in the intestine of A. japonicus (Xu, Sun, Liu, Zhang & Yang, 2016b).…”