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...
Great thanks to Rick Winterbottom for his hard work on improving this manuscript and Abebe Getahun for graciously providing a part of his dissertation. We thank LN Du, MN He, WS Jiang, JH Lan, R Min, B Yang and J Yang for sample collection. GH Cui provided information on collection localities. L Jia and WY Wang helped with laboratory work. GH Yu and YF Huang provided advice on the study. This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30730017, 31201707), National Basic Research Program of China (2007CB411600, 2008GA001), Western Light Doctor Programme of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Yunnan Provincial Science and Technology Program (2009CC008).
Abstract The Labeoninae is a subfamily of the family Cyprinidae, Order Cypriniformes. Oromandibular morphology within the Labeoninae is the greatest among cyprinid fishes. Although several phylogenetic studies about l...
supported by the Knowledge Innovation Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. KZCX2-YW-Q09);National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2012CB821900);National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 40802010);Key Laboratory of Evolu-tionary Systematics of Vertebrates,IVPP,CAS (Grant No. 2011LESV005)
Here described are the nemacheilid fossils from the Pliocene Lower Member of Qiangtang Formation in the Kunlun Pass Basin,northeastern Tibetan Plateau,at a locality 4769 m above the sea level (a.s.l.).The materials co...
A new species of the subfamily Labeoninae, Garra nujiangensis Chen and Yang, sp. nov. is recognized from a secondary branch of Nujiang River (upper Salween) in Zhenkang county, Yunnan province, China. It can be dist...
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