partially carried out within the state assignment of Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (124012200182-1)。
The distribution of exposure to Hg in amphibians remains unknown on most continents.The Ussuri broadleaf and mixed forests ecoregion is a region of high biodiversity, the nine species of amphibia living on its territo...
Adaptative strategies of the frog, Nanorana parkeri, to extreme environments at high altitude are linked with the evolution of their own genetic mechanisms and phenotypic traits. However, to date, the roles of symbiot...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (32271737, 32071544);the Interdisciplinary Innovation Team of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) “Light of West China” Program (xbzg-zdsys-202207);China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2024M753155)。
Mountain amphibians are exposed to a multitude of threats from climate change and anthropogenic disturbances. However, a lack of data hinders the understanding of the responses of mountain amphibians to these threats,...
The work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Project(2017YFB0304500).
The impact wear behavior and damage mechanism of dissimilar welded joints between U26Mn frog and U75 V rail before and after normalizing treatment were studied by cyclic impact tests.The experiment indicated that the ...
We thank the National Natural Sciences Foundation of China(31970393);the Key Project of Science and Technology of Sichuan Province(22NSFSC0011)for supporting our study.
Dear Editor,Selective pressures emerging from the environmental complexity can drive variation in vertebrate brain size(Sol et al.2005;Sayol et al.2016).It is generally agreed that larger brains can confer better cogn...
Animal sampling was authorized by the Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade(ICMBio licences#19629 and#33735);approved by the Committee of Ethics for the Use of Animals(CEUA)at Universidade Estadual Paulista,Jaboticabal,Brazil(protocol#016549/09);RCN received grant#2012/06228-0,grant#2013/04023-5 and grant#2014/04394-6;CPAP received grant#2009/12013-4,all from the São Paulo Research Foundation(FAPESP);CPAP and KRZ thank the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico(CNPq)and NSF for research fellowships.
The mechanisms of hybridization can be elucidated by analyzing genotypes as well as phenotypes that could act as premating barriers,as the reproductive interactions among heterospecifics can alter the evolutionary hist...
Direktorat Riset dan Pengabdian Masyarakat,Direktorat Jenderal Penguatan Riset dan Pengembangan Kementerian Riset,Teknologi,dan Pendidikan Tinggi Republik Indonesia(grant number 437.43/UN10.C10/PN/2020)provided financial support to NK for this work。
Species diversity of the genus Theloderma has been extensively studied in recent decades,with the majority of newly described species hailing from the Indochina region.We describe a new species of mediumsized Theloder...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.31472021);the National Key Wildlife Subsidy Fund Project of Hunan Province(No.2021-326);the project for Endangered Wildlife Investigation,Supervision and Industry Regulation of the National Forestry and Grassland Bureau of China(No.202207-HN-001);the project for Endangered Wildlife Protection of Hunan Forestry Bureau of China(No.HNYB-202201)。
We described anew species of the Amolops mantzorum group(Anura:Ranidae) from northwestern Hunan Province,China based on morphological and molecular evidence.The new species differs from its congeners by a combination ...
supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province, China (LY21C040002);partially by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41541002)
We present a molecular assessment of the widely-distributed ricefrog(Fejervarya limnocharis)which provides many newsamples that add to knowledge of their phylogeography within China and considersgenetic support forfiv...
supported by the programs of the Guizhou Province Top Discipline Construction Program Project(Qianjiao Keyan Fa[2019]125);the Postgraduate Education Innovation Programme of Guizhou Province(Qianjiaohe YJSKYJJ[2021]091);the Strategic Priority Research Program B of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS)(XDB 31000000);the National Animal Collection Resource Center,China(2005DKA21402);the Application of Amphibian Natural Antioxidant Peptides as Cosmetic Raw Material Antioxidants(QKZYD[2020]4002).
The diversity of the brown frog genus Rana may be underestimated as the high similarity of morphological characters.In this study,a new species of Rana from Guizhou Province,China is described,namely Rana zhijinensis ...