support by the National Science Foundation of China (32130015);Yunnan Revitalization Talent Support Program Yunling Scholar Project;the Animal Branch of the Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Chinese Academy of Sciences (the Large Research Infrastructure Funding) to Jing CHE,Biological Resources Programme, Chinese Academy of Sciences;Yunnan Revitalization Talent Support Program Young Talent Project;CAS Special Research Assistant (SRA) Program;Program of Yunnan Forestry and Grassland Administration (2022GF258D-10);Small Grant Program for New Records and Rediscoveries of Rare Species by Tencent Foundation;Shanshui Conservation Center to Kai WANG;U.S. National Science Foundation (grant DEB1145922);the Partnerships for Enhanced Engagement in Research (PEER) Science program (grant PGA-2000003545), which is a partnership between the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the U.S. National Science Foundation to Bryan L. STUART。
Despite continuous progress made on the taxonomy of the genus Tropidophorus, the Lao Water Skink, T. laotus, is only known from brief descriptions of its syntypes in historical literature. Here we designate a lectotyp...
In this essay,I present a new account for demonstrating that all de-se-thoughts are immune to the error of de-re-misidentification.Currently,there is a consensus among philosophers that at least some de-se-thoughts ar...
The aim of this research paper is to model the effects of misidentification in the transmissiondynamics of the super yeast, Candida auris (or C. auris), among patients receivingtreatment in the Intensive Care Units (I...
This study was financially supported by the Pharm-Biotechnology and Traditional Medicine Centre(PHARMBIOTRAC).We would like to thank and acknowledge Pharm-Biotechnology and Traditional Medicine Centre hosted at Mbarara University of Science and Technology for funding the study,Mrs.Venerandah Biryabarema Bushenyi and Africa Volunteer Association-Kamwenge for providing us with the study plants.The authors also thank Mr.Gershom Muganga who was a research assistant during the study.
Background:Different parts of Artemisia vulgaris L.(A.vulgaris)are ethno-medicinally used as an emmenagogue and for the treatment of ailments such as malaria fever,ulcers,and cancer.However,anecdotal evidence shows th...
BACKGROUND Hepatic tuberculosis(TB)is uncommon clinically.Because of a lack of specific signs,characteristic symptoms and clinical manifestations and because pathological samples are difficult to obtain,hepatic TB is ...
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....
funded by the National Park Service Inventory and Monitoring Program.
Aims Observer error is an unavoidable aspect of vegetation surveys involving human observers.We quantified four components of interobserver error associated with long-term monitoring of prairie vegetation:overlooking ...
supported in parts by the research grants from the University of Malaya,Malaysia,under the Research University grant(RU002-2019);the UMCoE Top 100 Research Grant(UM.00000188/HGA.GV)
Enterococcus(E.)faecium is recognized as a leading cause of nosocomial infections worldwide.Infection with the organism is often difficult to treat due to its inherent ability to acquire glycopeptide resistance genes ...
Flat-spectrum radio quasar PKS 1229-02 with a knotty and asymmetric radio morphology was identified as the optical and radio counterpart of a γ-ray source. In this paper, we study the properties(e.g.morphology, opaci...
Aims Vegetation sampling employing observers is prone to both inter-observer and intra-observer error.Three types of errors are common:(i)overlooking error(i.e.not observing species actually present),(ii)misidentifica...