supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China,No.31871211 (to YJunW);the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (PAPD)。
The low intrinsic growth capacity of neurons and an injury-induced inhibitory milieu are major contributo rs to the failure of sensory and motor functional recovery following spinal cord injury.Heat shock transcriptio...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (U1602265,Mapping Karst Biodiversity in Yunnan);Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)(XDA20050202);High-End Foreign Experts Program of Yunnan Province (Y9YN021B01,Yunnan Bioacoustic Monitoring Program);CAS 135 Program (2017XTBG-T03);Chinese Academy of Sciences Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Center Fund (Y4ZK111B01)。
Karst habitats are hotspots of diversity and endemism. Their naturally fragmented distributions across broad geographic landscapes have led to the complex array of smaller evolutionary ecosystems that present unique c...
supported by the National Key R&D program of China (2019YFB1309600);National Natural Science Foundation of China (51975283).
Geckos can move quickly in various environments by efficiently controlling their complex adhesive toe pads.The locomotion behaviours observed in the attachment-detachment(A-D)cycle of their toe pads in response to cha...
This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.51435008,51705247,and 31601870);a Jiangsu Educational Innovation Program(Grant No.KYLX16_0327).
Adhesion achieved through feet setae is fundamental for gecko agilely maneuvering.Although diverse hypotheses have been proposed,none of them thoroughly explains the setae function,implying a kind of hybrid-mechanism-...
This study was supported by the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund(Western Ghats);DBT-IISc Partnership Programme and Ministry of Environment,Forests,and Climate Change(MoEFCC);Singinawa Conservation Foundation,and Rufford Small Grant。
The highly speciose gekkonid genus Cnemaspis Strauch,1887 is polyphyletic,with three distantly related and geographically isolated clades from Africa,South Asia(SA),and Southeast Asia.At present,there are 85 known spe...
Financial support was provided by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)(Grant No.31672269,31000949 to J.YAN);the Natural Science Foundation of the Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions of China(19KJA330001 to P.LI);the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions(PAPD);Top-Notch Academic Programs Project of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions(TAPP,PPZY2015B117)。
Reptiles are the most morphologically and physiologically diverse tetrapods,with the squamates having the most diverse habitats.Lizard is an important model system for understanding the role of visual ecology,phylogen...
The research was supported financially by the University of Technology Sydney.All procedures were approved by the UTS Animal Care and Ethics Committee(protocol ACEC 2012000256);a NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service scientific licence(SL 101013 toJ.K.W.).
Fluctuations in food availability occur in many ecosystems and pose challenges to the organisms that inhabit them(Berg et al.2017).Because lizards have significantly lower field metabolic rates than endotherms,they ar...
Pollination networks on islands are often characterized by less complexity than comparable continental environments(Olesen and Jordano 2002).Furthermore,they sometimes include novel generalist-feeding nonspecialist po...
This work was sponsored by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.51435008 and 31601870);an Educational Innovation Program(No.KYLX 160327)。
Discoveries in geckos locomotion have advanced the bio-inspired robotics.However,the gecko-inspired robots still lag behind animals in attachments and maneuvers due to our failure to understand and implement gecko bio...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.31601870 and 51435008);the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province,China(Grant No.SBK20160800).
Since the commencement of climbing robots,the moving ability of climbing robots has continuously lagged far behind that of climbing animal.A primary cause is the insufficient understanding of how animals govern their ...