supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.41807011 and 41907012);the Chinese Universities Scientific Fund(No.2452022335);the Open Fund for Key Lab.of Ecological Study of Ningxia University,China(No.LDER2022Z01)。
Zokors are common subterranean rodents that inhabit agricultural fields, shrublands, and grasslands in the arid and semi-arid regions of China. Zokor burrowing activities can alter soil structure and affect soil hydro...
supported by the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research(STEP)Program(2019QZKK05010218,2019QZKK05010110);National Natural Science Foundation of China(32100339,31871277);supported by the Yunling Scholar Project;Ten-Thousand Talents Plan of Yunnan Province;supported by the Youth Innovation Promotion Association,Chinese Academy of Sciences。
Zokors in the genus Eospalax,which are endemic to northern and western China,are subterranean rodents that inhabit various niches,including grasslands,high-altitude meadows,forests,and farmlands.Six species in Eospala...
This study was funded by the Lushan Plant Special Project of Lushan Botanical Garden,Chinese Academy of Sciences(2019ZWZX01).
Mounds constructed by plateau zokors,which is widely distributed in alpine meadows significantly modified plant community structure.However,the variations of plant community structure under the disturbance of plateau ...
ZokorDB is supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(No.XDB13000000);The authors are also supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)(Nos.11871463,11871462,61671444 and 61621003);We thank all the lab members for discussions on data collection,genome alignment,annotation,GRN reconstruction;We thank Dr.Yilei Wu and his group for help on database design and management.
Background:Plateau zokor inhabits in sealed burrows from 2,000 to 4,200 meters at Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.This extreme living env ironment makes it a great model to study animal adaptation to hypoxia,low temperature,and...
Fund for Zokor Experiment:National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.31601984,41101524);Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(lzujbky-2012-108,lzujbky-2015-191);the Special Fund for Agro-scientific Research in the Public Interest(No.201203006).
Aims The community succession theory is much debated in ecology.We studied succession on Zokor rodent mounds on the Tibetan Plateau to address several fundamental questions,among them:(i)During secondary succession,do...
funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No:30770256);the Key Projects(SZD 0420)of Sichuan Province.
To help resolve the systematic position of Myospalacine(zokors)and to clarify the phylogenetic relationships among zokor species,complete mitochondrial 12S rRNA and cytochrome b gene sequences were determined for seve...