supported by a grant from the Harvard Global Institute for research on biodiversity of China;The research was carried out within the state assignment of Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation(theme No.121031500274-4)。
Partial separation of a peripheral population may lead to its divergence and,potentially,speciation due to genetic drift followed by selection and geographic isolation.This process may cause taxonomic uncertainty beca...
the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research(STEP)program(2019QZKK0502);National Key R&D Program of China(2017YFC0505200);National Natural Science Foundation of China(31460096 and 31590823);State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Plant Resources in West China(P2020-KF04).
Delimiting species requires multiple sources of evidence.Here,we delimited two varieties of Halenia elliptica(Gentianaceae)using several lines of evidence,including morphological traits and mating system in a sympatri...
A key grant for the work on peonies was given by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFS30121003)。
The present article briefly reviewed the previling species concepts,especially biological,genetic,evolutionary,phylogenetic,ecological,and several taxonomic speqies concepts.The former five reflect the properties of s...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.31401969,31772480);the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province(No.20161BAB214158).
Incomplete lineage sorting and introgression are 2 major and nonexclusive causes of specieslevel non-monophyly.Distinguishing between these 2 processes is notoriously difficult because they can generate similar geneti...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31772491, 41501056);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (KYZ201617, KJQN201668);the National Key Research and Development Programme (2016YFC1200700).
Highly diversified colorations among springtails (Collembola) have been widely used for species diagnosis, but their phylogenetic significance is poorly known. We addressed this issue in the largest Entomobryinae genu...
Abies Mill. represents one of the most diverse lineages in Pinaceae with ca. 50 species. Recent phylogenetic studies of Abies using regions of the nuclear and plastid genomes generally support recent classifications. ...
supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(973 Project;Grant No.2013CB834100);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.11474068);the support of the State Key Laboratory of Applied Surface Physics and the Department of Physics,Fudan University,China
We report an important but long-overlooked manifestation of low-resolution power of 16S rRNA sequence analysis at the species level, namely, in 16S rRNA-based phylogenetic trees polyphyletic placements of closely-rela...
A recently proposed taxonomic classification of extant ungulates sparked a series of publications that criticize the Phylogenetic Species Concept (PSC) claiming it to be a particularly poor species concept.These opi...
This work was supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(973 Project No.2013CB834100);the National Key Laboratory of Applied Surface Physics and the Department of Physics,Fudan University.
A monospecific genus contains a single species ever since it was proposed.Though formally more than half of the known prokaryotic genera are monospecific,we pick up those which actually raise taxonomic problems by vio...
Phylogeny has long informed pteridophyte classification. As our ability to infer evolutionary trees has improved, classifications aimed at recognizing natural groups have become increasingly predictive and stable. Her...