The National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos.30470010 and 30525002);the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No.KSCX2-YW-G-025);the Key Laboratory of Biodiversity and Biogeography,Chinese Academy of Sciences (No.0806371111);the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (No.2005DKA21006)
This work was jointly supported by the National Key Basic Research Program (973) (Grant No. 2003CB415102); the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants Nos. 40332021 & 30540077);the Yunnan Provincial Govern- ment through an Award for Prominent Contributions in Science and Technology to Prof. Wu Zhengyi in 2001 (Grant No. KIB-WU-2001-01).
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