Fibers are ubiquitous material forms that permeate a great many aspects of daily lives from silica glass opti-cal fibers that enable this Information Age to polymer fibers used in our apparel to soft glass fibers used...
This Special Topic contains one perspective and three original articles that address the topic of convergent evolution.How common,and how important,is convergent adaptation in evolution?These are the questions these s...
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31830005 and 31971540);the National Key Research and Development Program(2017FY100705);Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation(2019A1515010752);the National Postdoctoral Program for Innovative Talents(BX201700300);the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2017M622857).
Convergent evolution is one of the central topics in evolutionary genetics[1].While there has been ample evidence of phenotypic convergence,the issue is whether each and any of the phenotypic convergences have an unde...
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(91731304,31621062);Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDB13000000);YBC was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(81322030,31271579);the Yunnan Province High-level Talents Introduced Program and Yunnan Applied Basic Research Projects(2014FA038);XG was supported by Chinese 863 program(2013AA102503),and the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31260542,31260543,31160449,31460581,31560617);YHM was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31272403);DDW was supported by Qinghai Department of Science and Technology Major Project‘Sanjiangyuan National Park Animal Genome Project’.
Abundant and diverse domestic mammals living on the Tibetan Plateau provide useful materials for investigating adaptive evolution and genetic convergence.Here,we used 327 genomes from horses,sheep,goats,cattle,pigs an...
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31830005,91731301 and 31971540);the National Key Research and DevelopmentPlan(2017FY100705);the Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation(2019A1515010752);the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2017M622857 and BX201700300 of the National Postdoctoral Program for Innovative Talents).
Sequencing multiple species that share the same ecological niche may be a new frontier for genomic studies.While such studies should shed light on molecular convergence,genomic-level analyses have been unsuccessful,du...