Birdsong is an important secondary sexual trait which may vary between but also within species.Intraspecific variation is generally studied either on the geographical or on the temporal scale;most of the studies explo...
provided by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.32070452,32011530077)。
Thermogenic features are often invoked to illustrate animal’s colonization,distribution,and response to climate change.To understand why the White-browed Laughingthrush(Pterorhinus sannio)has expanded its distributio...
funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.3213000355,31630069 to F.L.);the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research(STEP)program(Grant No.2019QZKK0304 to F.L.).
Pectoralis phenotypic variation plays a fundamental role in locomotion and thermogenesis in highland birds.How-ever,its regulatory and metabolic mechanisms remain enigmatic to date.Here,we integrated phenomic,tran-scr...
funded by the Center for Forest Ecosystem Assessment(CFEA),USDA Forest Service,and Alabama A&M University;additional funding from the Alabama Ornithological Society and Birmingham Audubon Society
Background: The early stage of forest succession following disturbance is characterized by a shift in songbird composition as well as increased avian richness due to increased herbaceous growth in the forest understor...
Funding for this research came from the Oklahoma Biological Survey,the National Science Foundation(IDBR#1152356,and DEB#0946685);the United States Department of Agriculture-National Institute of Food and Agriculture(NIFA-AFRI-003536);All work with animals was performed under state and federal banding permits(Permit#23215);was approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of the University of Oklahoma(Protocol#R12-019).
To search for genes associated with migratory phenotypes in songbirds,we selected candidate genes through annotations from the Mouse Genome Informatics database and assembled an extensive candidate-gene library.Then,w...
We thank Fumin Lei, A. Town Peterson, and Rob Moyle for inviting us to contribute to this special volume. We also are grateful to Feng Dong and Xiao-Jun Yang from Kunming Institute of Zoology for providing us additional data for these analyses. This work was funded by the US National Science Foundation (DEB-0962078 to SR).
The Streak-breasted Scimitar Babblers of the Pomatorhinus ruficollis species complex are found in most of the forested habitats across southern and eastern Asia. The diversification history of this group is obscured b...
Worldwide, wild birds play a vital role in the dispersal of ticks that harbour tick-borne pathogens, including Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme disease bacterium. Using PCR testing, we found 124 (31%) of 405 ticks (4 sp...
the Danish National Research Foundation for funding the Center for Macroecology, volution and Climate
Over the last decade, molecular phylogenetic studies have provided the foundation for a comprehensive analysis of the global diversification of songbirds (Oscines), which comprise nearly half of all the birds of the w...
Construction of man-made objects such as roads and bridges can influence wildlife presence and abundance. We investtigated waterbirds, songbirds, anurans, turtles, small mammals, and furbearers along the Ohio River, W...