funded by the National Science Foundation(Grant Nos.OCE-1658517 and NSF DEB-2055356);the French National Research Agency(Grant No.ANR-19-MPGA-0004)(Macron's"Make Our Planet Great Again"award)to Carol E.Lee.Karyotype visualization was performed by David Stern,Jesse Hunter,and Kim Oxendine at the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene,Department of Pediatrics,University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Copepods are among the most abundant organisms on the planet and play critical functions in aquatic ecosystems.Among copepods,populations of the Eurytemora affinis species complex are numerically dominant in many coas...
jointly funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.31930078);the National Key R&D Program of China(No.2021YFD2200405);Science and Technology Cooperation Projects between governments of China and the European Union(No.2023YFE0105100);the Fundamental Research Funds for ICBR(No.1632021023);Sanya Research Base of ICBR(No.1630032023002);the Scientific and Technological Innovation Team for Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau Research in Southwest Minzu University(No.2024CXTD10)。
Litter decomposition is key to ecosystem carbon(C)and nutrient cycling,but this process is anticipated to weaken due to projected more extensive and prolonged drought.Yet how litter quality and decomposer community co...
Funding was provided by the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología(CONACyT)through the Infraestructura project(205945);the Ciencia de Frontera project(137748);the Cátedras CONACyT project(883);by the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México(UNAM).M.H.received PhD scholarship(967648);S.H.-P.,postdoctoral grant(929602)from CONACyT.
Diet composition and its ecological drivers are rarely investigated in coexisting closely related species.We used a molecular approach to characterize the seasonal variation in diet composition in four spiny lizard sp...
supported by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions,National Natural Science Foundation of China(81271792,81471571,81971917,and 32170142);Jiangsu Natural Science Foundation(BK20211310).
C-type lectins(CTLs)are a family of proteins that contain 1 or more carbohydrate-recognition domains(CRDs)and bind to a broad repertoire of ligands in the presence of calcium ions.CTLs play important roles in innate i...
Supported by the German Research Foundation (JO 1276/5-1);the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany (BMBF) under the project NEED (01Kl2022).
Dear Editor,Dengue virus(DENV,family Flaviviridae,genus Flavivirus)serotypes 1 to 4(DENV-1,-2,-3,and-4)are responsible for more than 100 million infections per year worldwide.Symptoms of DENV infection can be diverse,...
funded by Accelerating Higher Education Expansion and Development Project(AHEAD)launched by the Sri Lankan Government under the funds of the World Bank and Massey University,New Zealand.
Sex ratio in animals has profound impacts on the fitness of mothers and their offspring.When the local competition intensity is sex-specific,selection favors the sex that may mitigate such negative impacts(West 2009)....
Urban coastal wetlands are fragile ecosystems that provide important ecosystemic services.However,these ecosys-tems are subject to considerable external pressures from urban development,which leads to serious disturba...
supported by the State Key Research Development Program of China(2019YFC1200500,2019YFC1200502);National Key Research and Development Program of China(2018YFA0903000,2020YFC2005405,2020YFA0712100,2020YFC0840805,2021YFC0863400);Key Project of Beijing University of Chemical Technology(XK1803-06)。
Previous studies have identified multiple viruses in dead or severely diseased pangolins,but descriptions of the virome in healthy pangolins are lacking.This poses a greater risk of cross-species transmission due to p...
This study provided new data in the area of cross-reactivity for Pacific white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei). Although the cross-reactivity between the most prominent allergenic proteins of shrimp and other crustacean...
supported by funding from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft,Award Number:Me 2683/10-1(to MS);an Australian Research Council Discovery grant(DP200102005);a UNE Postdoctoral Research Fellowship(to RDCB).
Amblypygi are tropical and subtropical ambush predators that use elongated,raptorial pedipalps for different activities.Although pedipalp use in predation and courtship has been explored in videography in vivo analyse...