supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.32070221,32170209);National Specimen Information Infrastructure,Educational Specimen Sub-Platform(Grant No.2005DKA21403-JK);the Fourth National Survey of Traditional Chinese Medicine Resources(Grant No.2019PC002).
Tongoloa is a herbaceous genus of East Asia Clade(Apiaceae)distributed in the alpine regions.The use of DNA fragments has not provided a well-resolved evolutionary history.For this research,we primarily collected samp...
financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC 31901325 and NSFC 31971673).
A fundamental question in speciation genomics is how evolutionary processes shape the genomic landscape of differentiation between species.Regions of elevated differentiation,referred to as genomic islands,could be sh...
EU GenTree project (No 676876);NERC (grant nr.NE/Ho03959/1)for providing plant material from several populations included in the study;funded by the National Science Centre Poland,Research Grant number UMO-2017/27/B/NZ9/00159.
Scots pine(Pinus sylvestris L.)is one of the most important tree species of the temperate and boreal zones in Eurasia.Its wide distribution range and current patterns of genetic variation have been influenced by Quate...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31825005 and 32001108);the Institution of South China Sea Ecology and Environmental Engineering,Chinese Academy of Sciences(ISEE2020YB01).
Diversification rates are critically important for understanding patterns of species richness among clades.However,the effects of climatic niche width on plant diversification rates remain to be elucidated.Based on th...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31961133027,31800376,42050410324,31971486);Natural Science Foundation from Science and Technology Department of Liaoning Province(2020-BS-021);the Top-notch young talents project of Liaoning Province“Xing Liao Talents"Project(XLYC1907177);Mat-thew K.Lau was supported by the Chinese Academy of Sciences CAS President's International Fellowship Initiative(PIFI,2019PC0036)。
Functional traits impact species interactions,community composition,and ecosystem functioning.However,few studies have focused on the diversification and phylogenetic correlation of multiple functional traits over geo...
Dr.Marta Kempf and students Anna Mikotajczyk,Maciej Weigt,Daria Jadwisienczak,and Simona Jeziorowska from the Interdepartmental Students Scientific Group of the University of Agriculture in Krakow,Poland,members of the GenTree consortium(EU Horizon 2020 Grant Agreement No.676876);NERC(Grant No.NE/H003959/1)for providing plant material from several populations included in the study;the Polish National Science Centre(UM0-2017/27/B/NZ9/00159);Wer-onika B.Zukowska acknowledges financial support from NCN Preludium project(UMO-2016/21/N/NZ9/01499).
We analyzed mitochondrial DNA polymorphisms to search for evidence of the genetic structure and patterns of admixture in 124 populations(N=1407 trees)across the distribution of Scots pine in Europe and Asia.The marker...
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC 31971673 and 31901325);Guangdong Natural Science Funds for Distinguished Young Scholar(20188030306040).
Multiple evolutionary forces contribute to heterogeneous genomic landscapes;however, disentangling their relative contributions is challenging. We sampled nine populations across the distribution of Quercus dentata, a...
This work was supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of Shaanxi Normal University(Grant No.GK202002011,No.GK202103077 to J.Q.Zhang);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(Grant No.2017TS030);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.31700180).
Traits are basic attributes of organisms that form the basis for speciation and diversity.The floral nectar spur is a classic example of a key innovative trait.Differences in nectar spur morphology can lead to pollina...
This study was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC,Grant Nos.31370395,31500266,31770416,and 31571311);the"One Hundred Talents"projects of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.29Y127E71);the Shenzhen Science and Technology Research Fund(JCYJ20150630165133393);by the Postdoctoral Targeted Fund of the Ministry of Human and Social Resources of Yun nan Province,China.We。
Speciation is widely accepted to be a complex and continuous process. Due to complicated evolutionary histories, desert plants are ideal model systems to understand the process of speciation along a continuum. Here, w...
This work was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41101058);the Shaanxi Provincial Key Laboratory Project of Department of Education(Grant No.17JS135);the Shaanxi Science and Technology Innovation Team(2019TD-012);the Graduate Student Independent Innovation Project of Northwest University(YZZ17166);the Open Foundation of Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China(Ministry of Education)(Numbers ZSK2017007 and ZSK2019008).
Pinus L.is the largest genus of conifers and provides a classical model for studying species divergence and phylogenetic evolution by gymnosperms.However,our poor understanding of sequence divergence in the whole plas...