National Science and Technology Innovation 2030-Major Project of China(2021ZD0201003 and 2022ZD0208300);National Natural Science Foundation of China(32171092);Shenzhen Key Basic Research Project(JCYJ20220818100805013);Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Viral Vectors for Biomedicine(ZDSYS20200811142401005);Guangdong Provincial Medical Products Administration Key Laboratory of Quality Control Technology for Virus-Based Therapeutics(2020ZDB26);Guangdong Provincial Medical Products Administration(2022ZDZ13).
Autism spectrum disorders(ASD)are characterized by social and repetitive abnormalities.Although the ASD mouse model with Shank3b mutations is widely used in ASD research,the behavioral phenotype of this model has not ...
supported by the project CGL2017-89254-R;financed by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation,FEDER Funds and the Spanish State Research Agency,and by the project PRPPID2020-117863RB-100;financed by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and the Spanish State Research Agency(MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033);supported by an ERASMUS+grant program of the European Union;supported by a FPI predoctoral contract financed by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness,the Spanish Research Agency,and European Social Funds(FPI PRE2018-083185,Call 2018);supported by a Ramón y Cajal(RYC-2015-19034)contract from the Spanish Ministry of Science,Innovation and Universities,the Spanish State Research Agency,European Social Funds(ESF invests in your future)and the University of the Balearic Islands.Center of Excellence‘Maria de Maetzu'(2023-2027)to IMEDEA.
Pollination networks are increasingly used to model the complexity of interactions between pollinators and flowering plants in communities.Different methods exist to sample these interactions,with direct observations ...
financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32072176,31271814);the Outstanding Youth Funds of Anhui Province(2208085J31);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(JZ2022HGQA0232,JZ2022HGTA0316)。
In the present study,we investigated the intervention effects of a purified Polygonatum cyrtonema polysaccharide(PCP)on high-fat diet(HFD)-induced atherosclerosis in male and female LDLr-/-mice.Results showed that HFD...
supported by the grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.32170504,31970422,and 31672305)to Guangzhan Fang;the grant from the Biodiversity Survey,Monitoring and Assessment Project of Ministry of Ecology and Environment of China(No.2019HB2096001006)to Baowei Zhang.
Environmental noise has a significant negative impact on acoustic communication in most situations,as it influences the production,transmis-sion,and reception of acoustic signals.However,how animals respond to conspec...
supported by grants from the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province(ZR2020MC121);the National Key R&D Program of China(2017YFD0201705).
The complex and efficient sex pheromone communication system in insects is essential for reproduction and for reproductive isolation of species.In moths,sex pheromone communication starts with male attraction to compo...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32130089);the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2020M680785);the Shenzhen Science and Technology Program,China(KQTD20180411143628272);the Central Public-interest Scientific Institution Basal Research Fund of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences(CAAS-ZDRW202108);the Special Funds for Science Technology Innovation and Industrial Development of Shenzhen Dapeng New District,China(PT202101-02);the Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Program of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences(ASTIP).
Odorant receptor(OR)is crucial for insects to detect and recognize external chemical cues closely related to their survival.The insect OR forms a heteromeric complex composed of a ligand-specific receptor and a ubiqui...
This work was carried out in compliance with the current laws of China and was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32071511,31301878,and 31300339)。
We used Takydromus septentrionalis,a sexually size-monomorphic lacertid lizard,as a model system to test the hypothesis that sexual size monomorphism may evolve in lizards where reproductive performance is maximized a...
granted by the Beatrice-Ederer Weber Foundation(P.N.);the Swiss Federal Commission for Scholarships for Foreign Students(A.P.);the Vinetum Foundation(P.N);the Swiss National Science Foundation(310030_204479,PN.);the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station(G.R.W);the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture Multi-state Hatch project NC1173(G.R.W);the USDA ARS Cooperative Agreement 6066-21000-001-02-S(G.R.W).
Multiple mating by both sexes is common among sexually reproducing animals.Small hive beetles(SHB),Aethina tumida,are parasites of bee nests endemic to sub-Saharan Africa and have become a widespread invasive species....
Purpose We quantified the chronological age and performance of Paralympic powerlifters competing at the elite level in the World Championships(WC)and Paralympic Games(PG),and examined the age-related differences betwe...
This article is a commentary on Liu et al.(2021).In their recent review in this journal,Liu et al.(2021)argue that sexual differences in the allocation to reproduction by male and female plants may cause sexual differ...