financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32271693);the Cultivating Plan Program for the Leader in Science and Technology of Yunnan Province(202405AC350111)to ZQZ.
Mating patterns in angiosperms are typically nonrandom,yet the mechanisms driving nonrandom mating remain unclear,especially regarding the effects of quantitative floral traits on plant mating success across male and ...
support by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32170241,32160054,and 32470241);supported by the Chinese Academy of Science's PIFI Fellowship Initiative(2024PVC0046).
Plants and their interaction partners offer unparalleled views of evolutionary ecology.Nectar larceny,entailing nectar extraction without pollinating,is thought to be an example of a harmful,antagonistic behavior,but ...
funded by East Tennessee State University RDC grant and NSF DEB 1931163 to GAG,and the honors in discipline grant awarded to AK.
The nectar microbiome can influence pollinator choice and plant fitness.Previous research has shown that changes in environmental conditions at large spatial scales can influence nectar microbiome composition.However,...
support in this study.This study was supported by China Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics,the National Natural Science Foundation of China (82202884);Beijing Hospitals Authority Clinical Medicine Development of special funding support (ZLRK202302);National Key Technologies R&D Program (2015BAl13B09);National Key Technologies R&D Program of China (2017YFC0110904);Clinical Center for Colorectal Cancer,Capital Medical University (1192070313).
Adding PD-1 blockade in the neoadjuvant regimens for locally advanced rectal cancer(LARC)patients with microsatellite stable(MsS)/mismatch repair-proficient(pMMR)tumors is an attractive,but debatable strategy.This pha...
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(grant nos.31270281,32030071)to SQH;NNSFC(32071671)to ZYT.
The plant-pollinator‘arms race’model posits that a major driver of the evolution of elongated corollas in flowers is reciprocal selection for‘morphological fit’between pollinator-tongue length and access distance ...
supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(grant nos.31730012,32030071);the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2021YFC3100404);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.
Floral color change in diverse plants has been thought to be a visual signal reflecting changes in floral rewards,promoting pollinator foraging efficiency as well as plant reproductive success.It remains unclear wheth...
This study was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.32030071,U1402267).
Nectar, the most common floral reward, is generally used to determine whether an orchid species involves deceptive pollination. Estimates of the deceptive pollination systems with nectarless flowers have ranged from o...
the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development(CNPq)with a research grant to Maria Alice S.Alves(PQ processes#306.579/2018-9);Carlos Chagas Filho Foundation for Research Support of the State of Rio de Janeiro(FAPERJ)supported Maria Alice S.Alves with research grant(CNE process#E-26/202.835/2018).
Many plants pollinated by nectar-foraging animals have to maintain a balance between legitimate visitor attraction strategies and mechanisms that minimize illegitimate visits.This study investigated how floral display...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31727901 to Z.L.S.);Key Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(KJZD-SW-L11 to Z.L.S.);Guangdong Province Natural Resources Services(Ecological Forestry Construction)Special Fund in 2021(to L.B.Z.);Youth Innovation Promotion Association of CAS(2019328 to X.L.Y.)。
Bats are reservoirs of various viruses.The widely distributed cave nectar bat(Eonycteris spelaea)is known to carry both filoviruses and coronaviruses.However,the potential transmission of theses bat viruses to humans ...
This work was jointly supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2019YFD0300100);the Key Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31630060);the Key International Joint Research Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31920103005);the Key Research and Development Program of Zhejiang Province(2021C02045);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities;the Special Research Fund for Distinguished Scholars of Zhejiang Province(2018R51004).
There is a growing demand for high-quality agricultural products and morecountries have adopted landscape management by sowing flowering plants inagricultural fields as an important branch of conservation biological c...