supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(2007CB411600);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(30870291,30930071,31272335);State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution,Kunming Institute of Zoology,the Chinese Academy of Sciences,NSERC Discovery Grant 3148;a Visiting Professorship for Senior International Scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences for RWM
The phylogenetic relationships of European and African Barbus and their West Asian relatives in Cyprininae remain largely unresolved.Consequently,little is known about the drivers of their evolution,including the poss...
supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(2007CB411600);the State Forestry Administration of China (WH0627);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China
Artificial breeding is an important project to protect,recover and reintroduce endangered species.Knowledge of the population's genetic diversity at functional loci is important for the establishment of effective capt...
supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (2007CB411600);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30670272,30770500,10961027,31270433 and 10761010);the Yunnan Natural Science Foundation (2009CD104);the State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution,Kunming Institute of Zoology,Chinese Academy of Sciences(GREKF09-02);the West Light Foundation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Special Fund for the Excellent Youth of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (KSCX2-EW-Q-9)
Classical theories explaining the evolution of cooperation often rely on the assumption that the involved players are symmetrically interacted.However,in reality almost all well-documented cooperation systems show tha...
Acknowledgements We are grateful to Jun HE, Jie LIU, Shu-Dong ZHANG, and Zong-Xin REN from the Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sci- ences (Kunming, China) for their help in the field; and we would like to thank Elizabeth GEORGIAN from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Madison, WI, USA) for reading an earlier version of this manuscript. This study was supported by grants from the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program, Grant No. 2007CB411600), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 30970201, 30570115), and the West Light Foundation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Pedicularis (Orobranchaceae) is a common high altitude genus of the Himalayas that may be affected by pollination limitation. Using Pedicularis lachnoglossa from Yulong (Jade Dragon) Snow Mountain in Lijiang (Yun...