The breeding biology of a captive, isolated population of Dalmatian Pelicans (Pelecanus crispus) at theShanghaiZoo,China, was studied from 2007 to 2019. The breeding age of the Dalmatian Pelicans was estimated at thre...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31970525,31672112);the National Key Research and Development Project of China(2019YFD1001401-GJ03);Advanced Foreign Experts Project(G2021157012L,G20200017071);Cultivating Fund Project of Hubei Hongshan Laboratory(2022hspy002);Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(2662018PY099)from Chinese government;Breeding of breakthrough new citrus varieties and creation of new germplasms,Science and Technology Planning Project of Sichuan Province(2021YFYZ0023-02);Comprehensive experimental station of middle and late maturing citrus in Chengdu,China Agriculture Research System(CARS-26)。
Citrus sinensis is the most cultivated and economically valuable Citrus species in the world,whose genome has been assembled by three generation sequencings.However,chromosome recognition remains a problem due to the ...
The optimization of aquaculture production requires the selection of efficient strains. Thus, genetic improvement has become one of the important levers to boost the development of aquaculture. The objective of this s...
the National Key R&D Program of China(2019YFD1000400);the NSFC(31972449)and the NSFC-XINJIANG joint foundation(U1803102),which provided grants to Changquan Wang;the NSFC(31801890),which provided a grant to Jinyi Liu;and the Postgraduate Research&Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province,which provided a grant to Mengjuan Bai.
Rose(Rosa spp.)plants flower via two contrasting methods:once flowering(OF)and continuous flowering(CF).Purple branch is a rare continuously flowering variety of Rosa rugosa that is extensively cultivated in China.How...
Loss of heterozygosity (LOH) is a phenomenon in which elimination of one parental genomic region occurs in interspecific hybrids. LOH is common in cancer (Deng et al., 1996;Koufos et al., 1985). However, genetic analy...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21621004, 21750001 and 21676192);Young Elite Scientist Sponsorship Program by CAST (YESS) (2018QNRC001)
Genetic variation drives phenotypic evolution within populations. Genetic variation can be divided into different forms according to the size of genomic changes. However, study of large-scale genomic variation such as...
National Key Research and Development Program of China(2016YFC1201100,2017YFC0505903);Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(2015ZCQ-BH-01,2017ZY18);National Natural Science Foundation of China(31570413,31670428)
Genetic diversity is crucial for plants to respond to global climate change,and exploring relationships between genetic diversity and climatic factors may help predict how global climate change will shape the genetic ...
Objective Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy(HCM)is a common autosome dominant cardiovascular disease,mainly caused by mutations in sarcomeric protein genes.Only about 5%of the patients carried double or compound he...
supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2017YFD0100305);National Natural Science Foundation of China (31521064);a project of the China National Rice Research Institute (2014RG003-1)
Identification of quantitative trait loci(QTL) having small effects on heading date(HD) is important for fine-tuning flowering time in rice(Oryza sativa L.). In this study, minor-effect QTL for HD were identified usin...