funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31470110;31301869;31670388);Key Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(KJZD-EW-L07);Yunnan Applied Basic Research Projects(2014FB176);China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2015M570801)
Apodemus (mice) and Rattus (rats) are the top rodent reservoirs for zoonoses in China,yet little is known about their diversity.We reexamined the alpha diversity of these two genera based on a new collection of sp...