co-supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2022YFF0800800);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41988101-01,42130205);the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Program(2019QZKK0707)。
The utilization of palynological data for plant diversity reconstructions offers notable advantages in addressing the discontinuity of plant fossils in the stratigraphic record. However, additional studies of modern p...
Endemism of lineages lies at the core of understanding variation in community composition among geographic regions because it reflects how speciation,extinction,and dispersal have influenced current distributions.Here...
Newly investigated leafy twigs bearing axillary fruits from the Eocene Parachute Creek Member of the Green River Formation in eastern Utah,USA,have provided more information on the species previously attributed to the...
supported by funds from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31670209,31770242,and 31970224);China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2019M661344);funds from the Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Biodiversity Science and Ecological Engineering and State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering at Fudan University;funds from the National Top Talent Undergraduate Training Program for outstanding undergraduates and the Wangdao Program for undergraduate research at Fudan University;funds from the Eberly College of Science(Department of Biology)and the Huck Institutes for the Life Sciences at the Pennsylvania State University。
Fruit functions in seed protection and dispersal and belongs to many dry and fleshy types,yet their evolutionary pattern remains unclear in part due to uncertainties in the phylogenetic relationships among several ord...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant 32271251 to K.Y.,grant 32070292 to J.L.);the Guangdong Innovative and Entrepreneurial Research Team Program (grants 2021Z T09Y104 and 2021QN02Y429 to K.Y.);the Shenzhen Science and Technology Program (grants JCYJ20220530115214033 and KQTD20210811090115021 to K.Y.,grants JCYJ20170817104523456 and KQTD20190929173906742 to J.L.);Scientific research funding for postdoctoral researchers staying at Shenzhen (grant K20227507 to Y.Z.);supported by the Stable Support Plan Program of the Shenzhen Natural Science Fund (grant 20220815160107001).
Cellular hormone homeostasis is essential for precise spatial and temporal signaling responses and plantfitness.Abscisic acid(ABA)plays pivotal roles in orchestrating various developmental and stress re-sponses and co...
Beta diversity(β-diversity)is the scalar between local(α)and regional(γ)diversity.Understanding geographic patterns ofβ-diversity is central to ecology,biogeography,and conservation biology.A full understanding of...
supported by the Biodiversity Survey,Observation and Assessment of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment,China(2019HJ2096001006);the General Research Project of CRAES,China(No.2016YSKY-08).
Exploring the frequency and distribution pattern of polyploid species in geographic parameters is of significance in understanding the mechanisms of polyploid speciation and evolutionary drivers of biodiversity.We her...
National Science Foundation of China(Grant No.42288201,Craton destruction and terrestrial life evolution);NSFC 41877427 and the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Science(No.XDB26000000);National Key R&D Program of China(2022YFF0801500);We thank Xu Yong for producing the attractive artistic reconstruction of the new specimen.
Recently,Nature Communications published a study on the feeding habits of an ancient extinct bird called Jeholornis from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota of China led by researchers from the Institute of Vertebrate Pa...
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...
supported by the Key Projects of the Joint Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(U1802232);the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research(STEP)program(2019QZKK0502);the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of Chinese Academy of Sciences(2019382);the Yunnan Young&Elite Talents Project(YNWRQNBJ-2019-033).
Deep evolutionary histories can play an important role in assembling species into communities,but few studies have explored the effects of deep evolutionary histories on species assembly of angiosperms(flowering plant...