financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants No. U21A20192 and 31872220);the Biodiversity Survey and Assessment Project of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, China (Grant No. 2019HJ2096001006);China Biodiversity Observation Networks (Sino BON—Amphibian and Reptile);the National Key Protection Wildlife Projects Foundation of China。
The holotype of Rana chensinensis, as initially documented by David in 1875, is sourced from the Laoyu River in Yinjiapo, Hu County,Shaanxi Province, on the northern slopes of the Qinling Mountains. Long a contentious...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China,Nos.32060212(to YW),81760648(to XWY),81560118(to BYZ);Project of Yunnan Applied Basic Research Project-Kunming Medical University Union Foundation,Nos.202101AY070001-006(to XWY)and 2018FE001(-161)(to JS);Yunnan Applied Basic Research Project Foundation,No.2019FB128(to YW);Project of Yunnan Province Clinical Research Centerfor Chronic Kidney Disease,No.202102AA10060(to BYZ);a grant from Scientific Research Foundation of Department of Education of Yunnan Province,No.2021J0205(to SSL)。
The regenerative capacity of the central nervous system is very limited and few effective treatments are currently available for spinal cord injury.It is therefore a priority to develop new drugs that can promote stru...
supported by Thailand Research Fund2019 (MRG6280203);the Unit of Excellence 2023 on Biodiversity and Natural Resources Management,University of Phayao (FF66-Uo E003,specimen collection) to C.S.;partially by the Russian Science Foundation (22-14-00037, molecular phylogenetic analyses) to N.A.P。
DEAR EDITOR,We report on a new species, Zhangixalus melanoleucus sp.nov., from Phou Samsoum Mountain(PSM) in Xiengkhouang Province, northeastern Laos, based on an integrative taxonomic approach, including morphologica...
Direktorat Riset dan Pengabdian Masyarakat,Direktorat Jenderal Penguatan Riset dan Pengembangan Kementerian Riset,Teknologi,dan Pendidikan Tinggi Republik Indonesia(grant number 437.43/UN10.C10/PN/2020)provided financial support to NK for this work。
Species diversity of the genus Theloderma has been extensively studied in recent decades,with the majority of newly described species hailing from the Indochina region.We describe a new species of mediumsized Theloder...
supported by grants from the National Key R&D Program of China(Grant No.2022YFC2602500);Biological Resources Programme,Chinese Academy of Sciences(KFJ-BRP-017-086)。
Dear Editor,The genus Liuixalus Li,Che,Bain,Zhao,and Zhang,2008 is a group of small-bodied Asian rhacophorid tree frogs and currently includes six species distributed in southern China and northern Vietnam(AmphibiaChi...
supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province, China (LY21C040002);partially by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41541002)
We present a molecular assessment of the widely-distributed ricefrog(Fejervarya limnocharis)which provides many newsamples that add to knowledge of their phylogeography within China and considersgenetic support forfiv...
funded by National Sciences Foundation of China(No.31272308 and 31872216).
Individual age and population age composition are the major concerns of ecologists,evolutionary biologists and conservation biologists.In amphibians,skeletochronology-counting the number of lines of arrested growth de...
supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) Grant funded by the Korean Government(NRF-2009-0067686,NRF-2016R1D1A1B03934071) to M.S.M.;the Foreign Youth Talent Program (QN2021014013L) from the Ministry of Science and Technology to A.B.;partially by the Russian Science Foundation (22-14-00037) to N.A.P.
DEAR EDITOR,Species that are not formally described are generally not targets for conservation,regardless of their threatened status.While habitat degradation has increased over the past several decades in the Republi...
supported by the programs of the Guizhou Province World-Class Discipline Construction Program Project (Qianjiao Key an Fa [2019] 125);the Biodiversity Survey and Assessment in Chongqing Counties (2021-090);the Postgraduate Education Innovation Programme of Guizhou Province (Qianjiaohe YJSKYJJ [2021] 091);the Strategic Priority Research Program B of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) (No.XDB31000000);the National Animal Collection Resource Center,China,the Application of Amphibian Natural Antioxidant Peptides as Cosmetic Raw Material Antioxidants (QKZYD [2020]4002)。
Herein we describe a new species,Leptobrachella yunyangensis sp.nov.,from Yunyang County,Chongqing City,China,based on a combination of molecular and morphological data.Phylogenetic analysis based on the mitochondrial...
supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(81760648,32060212 and 82160159);Yunnan Applied Basic Research Project Foundation(2019FB128);Project of Yunnan Applied Basic Research Project-Kunming Medical University Union Foundation(202101AY070001-006 and 2019FE001(-183));Program for Innovative Research Team in Ministry of Education of China(IRT17-R49);Science and Technology Leadership Talent Project in Yunnan China(2017HA010);Endocrine Clinical Medical Center of Yunnan Province(ZX2019-02-02);the Innovative Team of Precise Prevention and Treatment against Metabolic Diseases of Yunnan University,Scientific Research Fund Projects from the Department of Education of Yunnan Province(2021 J0205).
Background:Amphibian-derived peptides exhibit considerable potential in the discovery and development of new therapeutic interventions for clinically challenging chronic skin wounds.MicroRNAs(miRNAs)are also considere...