supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.31870390,31672277,31470471,31071910,32171498 and 39270124);the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology(No.CGL2007-60187/BOS);the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Program(STEP)(No.2019QZKK05010216);the Chinese Ministry of Education(No,20070319006);the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province(No.RC97019).
Residual yolk is assumed to be an important source of energy and nutrients during early life in nonmammalian amniotes.Available data show that the mean size of residual yolk is far smaller in lizards than in turtles,s...
supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31071910 and 31200282);Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions and High Academic Talent Foundation of Nanjing Forestry University (GXL201306)
We incubated eggs of five Phrynocephalus species (P. albolineatus, P. axillaries, P. grumgrzimailoi, P. helioscopus and P. przewalskii) at three constant temperatures (24℃, 28℃ and 32℃) to examine differences i...
supported by the grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31071910 and 31200282);the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions
We acclimated adults of two viviparous (Phrynocephalus guinanens& and P. vlangalii) and one oviparous (P. versicolor) species of toad-headed lizards (Agamidae) to 28 ℃, 33 ℃ and 38 ℃ to examine whether therm...
The work was carried out in compliance with the current laws on animal welfare and research in China, and was supported by grants from Natural Science Foundation of China (30770378 and 31071910), Zhejiang Provincial Foundation of Natural Science (Z3090461), Hangzhou Bureau of Science and Technology (20100332T20) and Zhejiang Department of Science and Technology for Innovation Teams (2010R50039-26). We thank Jian-Fang Gao, Rui-Bin Hu, Yan-Fu Qu and Ling Zhang for their help during the research.
Abstract We collected gravid gray rat snakes Ptyas korros from three geographically distinct populations in China, Chenzhou (CZ), Jiangshan (JS) and Dinghai (DH), to study geographical variation in female reprod...