support was provided by National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada(NSERC)Discovery Grants to JRS(Nos.RGPIN-342278-2013 and RGPIN-2018-04115);a NSERC Graduate Scholarships-Master's Scholarship(No.558809)to JEP;a US National Science Foundation Award(No.1255901)to ALH.
Ecological opportunity has been associated with increases in diversification rates across the tree of life.Under an ecological diversification model,the emergence of novel environments is hypothesized to promote morph...
support from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness through a research project to ML and SM-B(CGL2016-77401-P),to ME(PGC2018-099608-B-I00);a Ph.D.scholarship to JIM-C(BES-2017-079621).
Changes in holocentric chromosome number due to fission and fusion have direct and immediate effects on genome structure and recombination rates.These,in turn,may influence ecology and evolutionary trajectories profou...
support by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness(project CGL2016-77401-P);the Regional Government of Madrid,Spain(Macondo SI1/PIJ/2019-00333);C.B.B.was supported by a Predoctoral Fellowship Program grant from the Ministry of Science,Innovation and Universities(FPU16/01257);The work of P.V.was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research(project 19-04-01090-a);was held within the state assignment of IBIW RAS(theme AAAA-A18-118012690095-4);.D.S.was supported in part through USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture(Mclntire Stennis#101869).
Carex section Phacocystis(Cyperaceae)is one of the most diverse and taxonomically complex groups of sedges(between 116 and 147 species),with a worldwide distribution in a wide array of biomes.It has a very complicated...
supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology[CGL2012-38744,CGL2016-77401-P];the Spanish Ministry of Education,Culture and Sport(FPU fellowship AP2012-2189);U.S.National Science Foundation(Award 1255901 to ALH).TV is supported by grant UAL18-RNM-B082-B-E(UAL/CECEU/FEDER).
Restriction site-associated DNA sequencing(RAD-seq)and related methods have become relatively common approaches to resolve species-level phylogeny.It is not clear,however,whether RAD-seq data matrices are well suited ...
supported by funding from the Genomics Research and Development Initiative(GRDI-QIS,Project ID 2679)of the Government of Canada(https://grdi.canada.ca/en);supported by National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada(NSERC)Discovery Grants to JRS(RGPINs 342278-2013 and 2018-04115).
Plants play important roles as habitat and food for a tremendous diversity of specialist animals and fungi.The disappearance of any plant species can lead to extinction cascades of its associated biota.In consequence,...
the National Key Research and Development Project of China (No.2016YFC0402204);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.41571107);the Key Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No.KFZD-SW-318);the Key Project of Water Resources Department of Jiangxi Province (No.KT201503).
Water level fluctuations (WLF) are natural patterns that are necessary for the survival of various plants,and WLF guarantee both the productivity and the biodiversity of wetlands.However,the underlying mechanisms of h...
Heavy metal contamination to the environment is a serious problem in the developing countries due to anthropogenic activities, a threat needs to remediate to sustain the life on earth, technology includes use of micro...