supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.31970499 to Liuwang NIE)。
Dear Editor,The true frogs classified under the genus Rana, with widespread distribution in Eurasia and North America,constitute a varied and intricate group (Yuan et al., 2016;Chen et al., 2022). In total, 52 species...
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The holotype of Rana chensinensis, as initially documented by David in 1875, is sourced from the Laoyu River in Yinjiapo, Hu County,Shaanxi Province, on the northern slopes of the Qinling Mountains. Long a contentious...
supported by grants from Routine Survey of Terrestrial Wildlife Resources in Donggong-Jiufeng Mountain (Mc05-1) Zhejiang Survey Unit;the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC32170478, NSFC32370478);“Youth Top Talent Program of Chongqing” (CQYC 20220510893);Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (SWU-KR22014) to Zhiyong YUAN;the Animal Branch of the Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Chinese Academy of Sciences (the Large Research Infrastructure Funding) to Jing CHE。
We described a new species of Rana(Anura: Ranidae) from Zhejiang, China, based on morphological and molecular analyses. The new species, Rana minuscula sp. nov. clusters with R.ulma, R. kobai and R. tsushimensis and c...
supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2022YFE0203900);Guangdong Key Research and Development Program(2021B0202040002 and 2022B1111030001);China Agriculture Research System(CARS-46);Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation(2021A1515010647);Basic and Applied Basic Research Project of Guangzhou Science and Technology Plan Project(202102020299);Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangdong(2023B1212060023);Guangdong Laboratory for Lingnan Modern Agriculture(NZ2021018)。
The von Hippel-Lindau tumor suppressor protein(VHL),an E3 ubiquitin ligase,functions as a critical regulator of the oxygen-sensing pathway for targeting hypoxia-inducible factors.Recent evidence suggests that mammalia...
support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(grant no.32270457);The authors confirmed that this study based on the The Animal Ethics Committee at Anhui University permitted this experiments(IACUC(AHU)-2022-007).
Sexual dimorphism between males and females is a common pattern observed in the natural world and has become one of the main focuses of evolutionary biology.Amphibian head size and shape are important factors that may...
supported by the programs of the Guizhou Province Top Discipline Construction Program Project(Qianjiao Keyan Fa[2019]125);the Postgraduate Education Innovation Programme of Guizhou Province(Qianjiaohe YJSKYJJ[2021]091);the Strategic Priority Research Program B of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS)(XDB 31000000);the National Animal Collection Resource Center,China(2005DKA21402);the Application of Amphibian Natural Antioxidant Peptides as Cosmetic Raw Material Antioxidants(QKZYD[2020]4002).
The diversity of the brown frog genus Rana may be underestimated as the high similarity of morphological characters.In this study,a new species of Rana from Guizhou Province,China is described,namely Rana zhijinensis ...
supported by the Biodiversity Survey and Assessment Project of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment,China(2019HJ2096001006);China Biodiversity Observation Networks(Sino BON);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31872220,U21A20192 and 31572245);the Natural Science Founda tion of Henan Province(202300410222);the Second National Survey of Terrestrial Wildlife Resources Project of the National Forestry and Grassland Bureau of China.
The Rana chensinensis species group is widely distributed throughout North China.However,its taxonomy and composition remain controversial.In recent field investigations of the Taihang Mountains,a series of Rana speci...