This study was supported in part by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research(17H03719,18KK0205,and 21H02551).
Several Asian natricine snakes of the genus Rhabdophis feed on toads and sequester steroidal cardiac toxins known as bufadienolides(BDs)from them.A recent study revealed that species of the Rhabdophis nuchalis Group i...
In this paper, a system of fractional differential equations that model the synchronized bioluminescence behavior of a set of fireflies put on two spatial arrangements is presented; the alternative representation of t...
supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.31472035);Yunnan Provincial Science and Technology Department(No.2014FB179)to LXY
Eukaryotic genome size data are important both as the basis for comparative research into genome evolution and as estimators of the cost and difficulty of genome sequencing programs for non-model organisms. In this st...
Artificial night lighting is gaining attention as a new type of pollution;however, studies of its impacts are scarce. Fireflies provide good models to investigate its effects on nocturnal wildlife, since they depend o...
Supported by National Science Foundation of USA (Grant No. DEB-0103795)the Natural Foundation of Sciences of Yunnan Province (Grant No. 2003C0065M)the Director Fund of Kunming Institute of Zoology (Grant No. 040211(5270237))Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. KSCX2-1-09)
We sequenced partial mitochondrial 16S ribosomal DNA (16S rDNA) of 18 firefly species from Southwest of China. Combined with homologous sequences previously reported, phylogenetic trees including Japanese, Korean an...