the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 30470233, 30170169 and 30230080);Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education (Grant No. 98002717);China Wildlife Conservation Associa-tion (Grant Nos. 96035 and WH0309)
Chemical communication plays an important role in kin selection and mate choice in mammals. The covariance of odor-genes of rodents has been documented and kinship odor has been proposed and termed, yet little is know...
This work was supported by the Climbing Project of the Ministry of Sciences and Technology of China (Grant No.97021109-2);the Important Project of Knowledge Innovation of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. KSCX1-05-01).
Interspecies somatic nuclear transfer (NT) may provide a new approach for preservation of the endangered rare species. Previous interspecies cloning studies have shown that a nucleus from a quiescent somatic cell supp...
THE giant panda is a kind of endangered rare animal,the number of which is less than onethousand at present,specially distributed in China.According to the protective scheme issuedby The International Association of N...
Project supported by the Eighth-Five-Year Major Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences;National Natural Science Foundation of China.
Three kinds of microinsemination techniques are prevailing all over the world in recent years, i.e. (ⅰ) partial zona dissection (PZD); (ⅱ) subzonal insemination (SUZI), and (ⅲ) intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICS...
Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
Similar to other mammals, the giant panda sperms have to undergo capacitation andacrosome reaction (AR) before being able to fertilize the eggs. The sperm abilityundergoing acrosome reaction can be regarded as one of ...
The giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) is seriously endangered mainly because of a small total population, a narrow and fragmented distribution, and a restricted diet. Formerly, most studies on the giant panda focus...
The mortality of captive newborn giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) is ashigh as 71.3%, but it can be greatly reduced by hand-rearing of newborn cubs, whosemother animals are unable to feed them. This is of tremend...
Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China;partly by the Rockefeller Foundation Grant RF 84031.
The taxonomy and phylogeny of one of the endangered species found only in China, the giant panda, have been disputed for 120 years. It has been questioned whether it should be classified as the bear family(Ursidae), r...
A systemic morphological research of Giant panda including its system anatomy and organohistology was carried out from December 1980 to June 1983. Seven adult carcasses were studied and some supplementary specimens we...