This research has been funded by the Science Committee of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan(No.AP08855831).
The ecological-niche models for two sympatric species,Eremias lineolata(Nikolsky,1897)and Eremias scripta(Strauch,1867),reveal evidence of spatial and temporal disjunction in the actual niches of both species.Eremias ...
This work was supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDA20050201);National Natural Science Foundation of China(32070433 to X.G.G.and 32000288 to J.L.L.)。
The Eremias multiocellata-przewalskii species complex is a viviparous group in the genus Eremias,and a well-known representative of taxonomically complicated taxa.Within this complex,a new species-E.dzungarica(Orlova ...
We thank Tingting WANG,Yige CHEN and Peng CAO for assistance.AIll procedures were performed under the approval(IOZ14001);from the Animal Ethics Comittee at the Institute of Zoology,Chinese Academy of Sciences Funding was provided by National Natural Science Foundation of China(31500324 for Baojun SUN and 31801977 for Shuran LI).
Light is essential for embryonic development in many ovipa rous animals including fish,amphibians,and birds.However,light may be harmful for reptile embryos developing underground where they are in complete darkness a...
supported by the Ministry of Education and Sciences of Kazakhstan (Grant No. 1850/GF4);the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDPA20050201);the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China (Grant No. 2015DFR30790);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 31672270)
Phenotypic traits are usually correlated with the environment where organism occurs. In this study, the distribution of Eremias velox in the eastern periphery of its range was specified, and its morphological variatio...
Animal Ethics Committees at the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences approved the ethics and protocol (IOZ14001) for the collection, handling, and husbandry of the study animals;BI J. H. (No.31660615) and SUN B. J. (No. 31870391 and 31500324) are supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China
Sympatric reptiles are the ideal system for investigating temperature-driven coexistence. Understanding thermally physiological responses of sympatric lizards is necessary to reveal the physiological mechanisms that u...
supported by grants from Chinese Ministry of Education (20070319006);the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions
Phylogeographic studies of Eremias lizards (Lacertidae) in East Asia have been limited, and the impact of major climatic events on their population dynamics remains poorly known. This study aimed to investigate popu...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31272281);Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (KSCX2-EW-Q-6);Projects of the Bureau of International Co-operation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. 1136, 1327, 1441)
The rapid racerunner,Eremias velox,is a widely distributed lizard from the northern Caucasus across entire Central Asia eastward to China.It is increasingly common to accept E.velox as a species complex in its entire ...
supported by a grant from Natural Science Foundation of China(Project No.30670281)
We acclimated adult males of three Eremias lizards from different latitudes to 28℃,33℃ or 38℃ to examine whether temperature acclimation affects their thermal preference and tolerance and whether thermal preference...