supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(U1202261,U1602263).
Techniques of reduced-representation sequencing(RRS)have revolutionized ecological and evolutionary genomics studies.Precise establishment of orthologs is a critical challenge for RRS,especially when a reference genom...
This research was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.31800314 and U160323);a Discovery Grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada to SCHB.
Reproductive traits that function in pollinator attraction may be reduced or lost during evolutionary transitions from outcrossing to selfing.Although floral scent plays an important role in attracting pollinators in ...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.31570336,32070370);a grant of Science and Technology Basic Work(Grant No.2019FY101810).
An accurate understanding of species diversity is essential to studies across a wide range of biological subdisciplines.However,species delimitation remains challenging in evolutionary radiations,particularly in those...
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31400279,31770253,and 31860121);the Scientific Research Program of the Higher Education Institution of Xinjiang(XJEDU2016I042);High-level Scientific Research Foundation of Kashi University(GCCZK-004);Beijing Advanced Innovation Program for Land Surface Science.
Pollinator shift and its influence on floral traits have been well documented to explain the diversity of angiosperms,but such effects are still less known at the intraspecific level,especially the responses of differ...
The research was supported by the Yunnan Natural Science Foundation of China,the National Natural Science Foundation of China,the Independent Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,the Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund
Natural hybridization was assumed to play an essential role for the diversification of Primula; however, only one study of hybridization in the region of the Himalayas has been undertaken. In the present study, we exa...
Acknowledgements We are grateful to two review- ers for very helpful comments, and to Da-Hai ZHU and Lian-Cheng TIAN for assistance in collecting plant materials. This study was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 31070189 and 31170205) and a Special Research Program of Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden.
To investigate the mechanisms responsible for the high diversity in central and adjacent southwestern China, we inferred the phylogeographic history of Primula ovalifolia from chloroplast DNA data. One hundred and thi...
supported by the Research Fund for the Large-scale Scientific Facilities of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(2009-LSFGBOWS-01);Major Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(KSCX2-YW-N-0807);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.30870171,30900160)
DNA barcoding is a method of identifying species by analyzing one or a few short standardized DNA sequences. There are particular challenges in barcoding plants, especially for distinguishing closely related species. ...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant no. 30571137);Yunnan Natural Science Foundation (2009) A001;the Support Plan of the National Forest Science and Technology of China (grant no. 2006BAD01A18)
The comparative pollination biology of a population of Primula beesiana, a population ofP bulleyana, and an overlapping population of these two species in Yulong Shan, Yunnan Province, China, was studied in 2004 and 2...
supported financially by the National Science Foundation of China (grants 40671066 and 30870171)
Recent molecular phylogenetic analyses of Primula have greatly enhanced our understanding of the infrageneric relationships of the genus, but the subgenera Auganthus and Carolinella remain meagerly sampled and poorly ...