Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.42176138);the Ministry of Science and Technology of China(No.2021YFF0502801);the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(No.XDB42000000);the National Key R&D Program of China(No.2018YFD0900804)。
The xanthid genus Medaeops Guinot,1967 currently contains seven species reported from the Indo-West Pacific region.However,only one species,Medaeops granulosus(Haswell,1882),has been recorded from China seas and was o...
supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology China Brain Initiative Grant(2022ZD0204701);the Scientific Research Fund of Zhejiang Provincial Education Department(Y202147674)。
For over a century,the structure and evolution of the nervous system have been at the center of debate among biologists.In the 19th century,Camillo Golgi first proposed that the nervous system is a syncytial continuum...
In a report published in Cell on January 6,a team of CAS scientists led by Dr.LIU Guanghui and Dr.QU Jing at the Institute of Zoology and Dr.ZHANG Weiqi at the Beijing Institute of Genomics discovered a surprising con...
Resurrection fern has a unique ability to maintain cell wall integrity when the plant cell is desiccated. It uses proteins such as late embryogenesis proteins and heat shock proteins to maintain their cellular functio...
the Science&Technology Basic Resources Investigation Program of China(No.2017FY100804);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.41930533,31970489);the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(No.XDB42000000);the Senior User Project of R/V Kexue(Nos.KEXUE2019GZ04,KEXUE2020G01)。
Sea pens are a highly specialized and morphologically distinct group of octocorallians,but many taxa were poorly described and their phylogenetic relationships are still poorly known.We describe two species of sea pen...
This research is supported by the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research(STEP)program(2019QZKK0501);Biodiversity Survey and Assessment Project of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment(2019HJ2096001006);China's Biodiversity Observation Network(Sino-BON),Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Institute,CAS(Y4ZK111B01:2017CASSEABRIQG002);the Animal Branch of the Germplasm Bank of Wild Species,CAS(Large Research Infrastructure Funding)to J.C.and NSF GRFP 2017216966 to K.W;We thank Mr.Di-Hao Wu for providing locality information of the new species;Mr.Ben-Fu Miao,Mr.Hui-Ming Xu(Yunlong National Nature Reserve),and Mr.Wen-Jie Dong(KIZ)for their assistances in the field;and Mr.Chao Wu,Mr.Wei-Liang Xie,Mr.Shao-Bing Hou(KIZ),Mr.Jin-Long Ren(CIB)and Mr.Franco Leung Ka Wah(CIB)for providing photos of Lycodon species.
While considerable progress has been made in the taxonomic studies of the genus Lycodon in Asia,questions remain to be clarified regarding the taxonomy of certain groups,particularly those containing species in China....
This work was financed by the Smithsonian Institution,Flora iberica CGL2014-52787-C3-1-P,CGL2012-32914;CGL2017-85204-C3-1-P projects of the Spanish Government;through the FPI fellowship BES-2012-053754 to P.Barbera.
To investigate the evolutionary relationships among the species of Trisetum and other members of subtribe Koeleriinae,a phylogeny based on DNA sequences from four gene regions(ITS,rpl32-trnL spacer,rpsi6-trnK spacer,a...
We thank the Thailand Research Fund(“The future of specialist fungi in a changing climate:baseline data for generalist and specialist fungi associated with ants,Rhododendron species and Dracaena species DBG6080013”and“Impact of climate change on fungal diversity and biogeography in the Greater Mekong Subregion RDG6130001”);“The 2019 high-end foreign expert introduction plan to Kunming Institute of Botany(granted by the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China(Grant Number G20190139006))for funding this research.S.C.Karunarathna would like to thank the CAS President’s International Fellowship Initiative(PIFI)under the following grant:2018PC0006 and the National Science Foundation of China(NSFC,project code 31851110759);We also thank Udeni Jayalal,Nalin Wijayawardene,Ming-Ying Zhang,Mohammed Warris,Lee B.G and Eleni Gentekaki for their support during this research.Dhanushka Wanasinghe would like to thank CAS President’s International Fellowship Initiative(PIFI)for funding his postdoctoral research(Number 2019PC0008);the National Science Foundation of China and the Chinese Academy of Sciences for financial support under the following Grants:41761144055,41771063 and Y4ZK111B01.We also extend our gratitude to Teuvo Ahti,David Hawksworth,Pier-Luigi Nimis and Rikard Sundin and Mats Wedin who helped to clarify the nomenclatural status of the genus Naevia.
Fungi that are barely lichenized or non-lichenized and closely related to lichenized taxa,the so-called borderline fungi,are an important element in reconstructing the evolutionary history of lichenized lineages.Artho...
Photinia and its morphologically similar allies in Maleae(Rosaceae)consist of five currently recognized genera:Aronia,Heteromeles,Photinia,Pourthiaea,and Stranvaesia,and 68 species,distributed in Asia and North and Ce...
supported by National Key R&D Program of China (2016YFC1200705);the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDB31000000);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31722049, 31772434);Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences, CAS (QYZDBSSW-SMC058);the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of CAS;Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Institute (Y4ZK111B01);the CAS "Light of West China" Program (2018XBZG_JCTD_001)
Genus Rhacophorus Kuhl and Van Hasselt, 1 822 is one of the most diverse genera of the family Rhacophoridae, and its taxonomy of genus Rhacophorus faces major challenges because of rapidly described new species and co...