the Florida International University Tropics Program and the Susan S.Levine Trust.RTK and ELB also received support from the United States National Science Foundation(DEB-1118823 and DEB-1655683).
Background: Previous phylogenetic studies that include the four recognized species of Gallus have resulted in a number of distinct topologies, with little agreement. Several factors could lead to the failure to conver...
Background: This paper describes the chick plumage of spurfowl(Pternistis) and francolin(Francolinus, Dendroperdix Peliperdix and Scleroptila) chicks, tests its significance for phylogenetic relationships and also exp...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30870263, 31272259)
Background: Flight is the central avian adaptation in evolution. Wing muscles form an important anatomical basis for avian flight, affecting wing performance and determine modes of flight. However, the roles of distal...
supported by the National Natural Science Funds for Distinguished Young Scholar(30925008);a grant(O529YX5105)from the Key Laboratory of the Zoological Systematics and Evolution of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Bonasa sewerzowi, the smallest and most southerly distributed grouse species in the world, is a bird endemic to China. The population of B. sewerzowi had shown a declining trend, which made it to be the endangered spe...
the late Torstein Solhoy for initiating the project;funded by the Network for University Co-operation Tibet–Norway
Background: Little is hitherto known about the breeding ecology of the Tibetan Partridge(Perdix hodgsoniae)which is endemic to the Tibetan plateau. Here we describe nest densities, inter-nest distances and general nes...