funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31901120 and 31700320);China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2022M723135);Beijing Natural Science Foundation(5192016);Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of the Conservation and Exploitation of Biological Resources(swzy202006);Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program for college students of Anhui Normal University.
The gut microbiota plays a pivotal role in the maintenance of health for amphibians,and it has been fully recognized,but the effectiveness of various influencing factors has not yet been fully clarified.Although this ...
supported by DFGP Project of Fauna of Guangdong-202115;Nanling National Park Construction Project(No.ZD22-ZC016AG);2022 Wildlife Monitoring Projects of the Guangdong Forestry Bureau;the National Animal Collection Resource Center,China。
The fire-bellied newt genus Cynops contains ten known species distributed in China and Japan in East Asia.In this work,two new Cynops species are described,namely Cynops jiaoren sp.nov.distributed in northern Guangdon...
supported by the Guizhou Province Top Discipline Construction Program Project (Qianjiao Keyan Fa[2019]125);Postgraduate Education Innovation Programme of Guizhou Province (Qianjiaohe YJSKYJJ (2021) 091);Strategic Priority Research Program B of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)(XDB31000000);National Animal Collection Resource Center,China;Application of Amphibian Natural Antioxidant Peptides as Cosmetic Raw Material Antioxidants (QKZYD [2020]4002)。
The Paramesotriton Chang, 1935 genus of Asian warty newts is the second most diverse genus in the family Salamandridae, currently containing 14recognized species from northern Vietnam to southwest-central and southern...
supported by the National Key Research and Development Programs of China(2017YFC0505202);Construction of Basic Conditions Platform of Sichuan Science and Technology Department(2019JDPT0020);Species Conservation Project of Liziping National Nature Reserve。
The Hengduan Mountains Region(HMR)is the largest“evolutionary frontier”of the northern temperate zone,and the origin and maintenance of species in this area is a research hotspot.Exploring species-specific responses...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC 31471971)to Jianli XIONG;grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC 31272332)to Baowei ZHANG。
Age and body size a re critical for understanding life history evolution and ecology.In this study,the age and body size of the Shangcheng stout salamander,Pachyhynobius shangchengensis,from a population in Anhui Prov...
supported by the ANPCyT under grant PICT 2014-0865;CONICET and Universidad Nacional del Sur from Argentina
Fire is a natural disturbance occurring every few years in many grasslands ecosystems. However, since European colonization, fire has been highly reduced or even suppressed in Argentinean grasslands, fostering ignitab...
partially supported by the Russian Science Foundation(19-14-00050)
We describe a new species of the genus Tylototriton from Ingyin Taung Mt.,Mohnyin Township,Kachin State,Myanmar,based on morphological and molecular evidence.The new species is assigned to the subgenus Tylototriton s....
LS and MAJH were supported by the ERC project(62002139 ERC–CoG SIZE 647224);GFF belongs to the Laboratoire d’Écologie Alpine,which is part of Labex OSUG@2020(ANR10 LABX56)。
Body mass is rarely recorded in amphibians,and other body measurements(e.g.snout to vent length,SVL)are generally collected instead.However,length measurements,when used as proxies of body mass in comparative analyses...
funded by the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation(LQ12C06001)
Hynobius amjiensis is a critically endangered salamander species(IUCN Red List) endemic to eastern China. It currently has three known populations: one in Longwangshan, Zhejiang Province(type locality), and two i...
We present an annotated checklist for a total 241 reptiles and 22 amphibians including 5 frogs, 9 toads, 7 newts and salamanders, 1 crocodile, 1 worm lizard, 148 lizards, 79 snakes and 12 turtles and tortoises, includ...