INTRODUCTION This special issue of Integrative Zoology(the official journal of the International Society of Zoological Sciences and the Institute of Zoology,Chinese Academy of Sciences)presents recent research progres...
supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(Grant number 2016YFC0300803);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41406182,41306169 and 41422604);the incubating program of Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering,Chinese Academy of Sciences(Y960041001);the biodiversity investigation,observation and assessment program(2019-2023)of Ministry of Ecology and Environment of China;Ocean Park Conservation Foundation Hong Kong(AW02-1920).
A pioneering boat-based survey was conducted in 2019,to gather baseline information regarding the presence,composition,relative abundance,and spatial distribution of deep-diving and off-shore cetaceans in the northern...
This study was supported by grants from the National Key R&D Program of China(Grant numbers 2017YFC0306702 and 2016YFC0300803);National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.41506139);Youth Innovation Promotion Association of Chinese Academy of Sciences.This study was performed under Ethical Statement number IDSSE-SYLL-MMMBL-01.
Information on the gut microbiome composition of different mammals could provide novel insights into the evolution of mammals and succession of microbial communities in different hosts.However,there is limited informa...