supported by the National Key Research and Development Projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2021YFC2301300);National Natural Science Foundation of China (82050002,32070528,32100335,32000287);Beijing Natural Sciences Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars (JQ19022)。
The timing of mammalian diversification in relation to the Cretaceous-Paleogene(KPg)mass extinction continues to be a subject of substantial debate.Previous studies have either focused on limited taxonomic samples wit...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31872202,31401956,31272275);Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Institute,Chinese Academy of Sciences (Y4ZK111B01)。
DEAR EDITOR,High mountainous terrains facilitate the diversification of biota by providing a variety of opportunities for isolation(Favre et al.,2015).Within the Nemacheilidae family of loaches,the highly diverse Nema...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation(NSF)of China(32270475);Program of Ministry of Science and Technology of China(2018FY100403);National Special Support Program for High-level Talents(Ten-Thousand Talents Program);2115 Talent Development Program of China Agricultural University through Xin Z.S.L.is supported by Funds for International Cooperation and Exchange of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(3211001043);supported by the NSF of China(31470123);Jilin Science and Technology Program(20030561)through X.L.S.H.P.is supported by the National Mission on Himalayan Studies(NMHS)-Almora,Ministry of Environment,Forest and Climate Change,Government of India,through grant GBPNI/NMHS-2017-18/MG-12。
Despite the urgent need for conservation consideration,strategic action plans for the preservation of the Asian honeybee,Apis cerana Fabricius,1793,remain lacking.Both the convergent and divergent adaptations of this ...
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31970389 to K.H.,81770173 to X.P.)China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2009M652952 to K.H.);Pearl River Talents Program Local Innovative and Research Teams(2017BT01S131 to X.P.)。
The small-eared shrew genus Cryptotis is the third largest in the family Soricidae and occurs in North,Central,and northern South America.In Mexico and Central and South America,most species inhabit geographically iso...
Insulin is a key hormone for the regulation of metabolism in vertebrates.Insulin is produced by pancreatic islet cells in response to elevated glucose levels and leads to the uptake of glucose by tissues such as liver...