National Science and Technology Major Project(No.2018ZX10101004);X.R.was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.31800320);the Joint Fund of the Natural Science Foundation of Hainan Province(No.320RC506);the Scientific Research start-up Fund of Hainan University(No.KYQD(ZR)20057).
Species in Galliformes have elaborate ritual courtship displays,often including strutting,fluffing of tail or head feathers,and vocal sounds that serve as excellent examples of sexual selection.According to the male o...
We report for the first time the occurrence of heteroplasmy in Grey Partridge(Perdix perdix)revealed by means of two mitochondrial fragments.The possible serious biological and management implications of this exceptio...
the Florida International University Tropics Program and the Susan S.Levine Trust.RTK and ELB also received support from the United States National Science Foundation(DEB-1118823 and DEB-1655683).
Background: Previous phylogenetic studies that include the four recognized species of Gallus have resulted in a number of distinct topologies, with little agreement. Several factors could lead to the failure to conver...
supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2017YFC0503802);China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2017M 620905)
Background:Disentangling the relative importance of environmental variables and interspecific interaction in modulating co-occurrence patterns of sympatric species is essential for understanding the mechanisms of comm...
supported by the funded by the National Key Programme of Research and 422 Development,Ministry of Science and Technology(2016YFC0503200)
Background: Galliformes are widely distributed throughout the world and economically important to humans as domesticated animals or gamebirds. They are at a unique position for advancing knowledge and techniques of wi...
Background: This paper describes the chick plumage of spurfowl(Pternistis) and francolin(Francolinus, Dendroperdix Peliperdix and Scleroptila) chicks, tests its significance for phylogenetic relationships and also exp...
supported by the National Natural Science Funds for Distinguished Young Scholar(30925008);a grant(O529YX5105)from the Key Laboratory of the Zoological Systematics and Evolution of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Bonasa sewerzowi, the smallest and most southerly distributed grouse species in the world, is a bird endemic to China. The population of B. sewerzowi had shown a declining trend, which made it to be the endangered spe...
In this study,based on phylogenetic diversity(PD),I develop a conservation strategy for Galliformes species around the world.A cladogram of 197 Galliformes species derived from a previous study was used for calculati...
Background: In this study, the ancestral distributional ranges and the tempo of diversification patterns of global Galliformes were investigated.Methods: Different diversification models characterizing possible tempo ...
supported by the Tibetan Bureau of Science and Technology;the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 39800016);the Tibet Important Bird Area Survey Programme organized by BirdLife International
Habitat use by Galliformes in an ornithologically unexplored region,a forest area in southeastern Tibet,was investigated during the summer and autumn periods of 1995.A total of seven species were recorded,most of whic...