supported by a grant from the Harvard Global Institute for research on biodiversity of China;The research was carried out within the state assignment of Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation(theme No.121031500274-4)。
Partial separation of a peripheral population may lead to its divergence and,potentially,speciation due to genetic drift followed by selection and geographic isolation.This process may cause taxonomic uncertainty beca...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61772545,61702537,62002370);State Key Laboratory of Information Security(2020-MS-02).
Magpie is a lightweight block cipher proposed by Li et al.in Acta Electronica Sinica volumn 45,issue 10.It adopts an substitution-permutation network(SPN)structure with a block size of 64 bits and the key size of 96 b...
Financial support has been provided by Hainan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China(320CXTD437 to C.Y.);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.31672303 to CY,and 31772453 and 31970427 to W.L.).
Obligate brood parasitism,which refers to parasitic birds,fish,and insects that lay eggs in host nests,imposes strong selective pressure on hosts because the reproductive output of hosts is reduced considerably or eli...
Background:The Maghreb Magpie(Pica mauritanica)is an endemic North African species.Available knowledge on this species is limited to historic descriptive data with no ecological information provided.Populations contin...
Song plays a fundamental role in intraspecific communication in songbirds.The temporal and structural components of songs can vary in different habitats.These include urban habitats where anthropogenic sounds and alte...
Located in a charming villa on low key Julu Lu,Magpie has been a neighborhood institution since opening 13 years ago.Inside,the "5-star liighly specialized health center"pays tribute to Chinas dynastic history mixing ...