supported by the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Agricultural Science and Technology Independent Innovation Fund(NGSB20211405);Key Laboratory of the Zoological Systematics and Evolution of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(2008DP173354);the Survey of Wildlife Resources in Key Areas of Tibet(ZL202203601).
How many species of life are there on Earth?This is a question that we want to know but cannot yet answer.Some scholars speculate that the number of species may reach 2.2 billion when considering cryptic diversity and...
supported by the funds from Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province(C2022402017).
DNA barcoding has been extensively used for species identification.However,species identification of mixed samples or degraded DNA is limited by current DNA barcoding methods.In this study,we use plant species in Jugl...
supported by the Russian Science Foundation (22-24-00030)(https://rscf.ru/project/22-24-00030)
Ancient Lake Baikal(LB)is the prime hotspot of the harpacticoid diversity.The Canthocamptidae harpacticoids in the lake can be considered at least six species flocks.The lacks of unequivocal diagnostic characters in t...
funded by the U.S.National Science Foundation(Award DEB-1916263 to M.S.C.);the Clemson University Experiment Station(SC-1700596 to M.S.C.).
We are far from knowing all species living on the planet.Understanding biodiversity is demanding and requires time and expertise.Most groups are understudied given problems of identifying and delimiting species.DNA ba...
This study was supported by a starting fund from Hebei Agricultural University and the State Key Laboratory of North China Crop Improvement and Regulation(YJ2020028).
Species are not only the fundamental units of taxonomy but also the basic units of pest management.Insects of Conogethes are important agricultural and forestry pests.However,species boundaries within Conogethes often...
The new genus Parathrausta gen.n. in the subfamily Spilomelinae (Lepidoptera, Crambidae) is erected based on a series of specimens collected in the Afrotropical region of Saudi Arabia. The new genus is monotypical, wi...
supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(2022YFA1304700);Beijing Natural Science Foundation(Z200010);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(21937001,21925701,22137001,22321005,91753000 and 92153301);sponsored by the XPLORER PRIZE.
Ultrasensitive protein identification is of paramount importance in basic research and clinical diagnostics but remains extremely challenging.A key bottleneck in preventing single-molecule protein sequencing is that,u...
support provided by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Yunnan Postdoctoral Research Project funded by the Yunnan Science and Technology Department awarded to SAR (Grant Nos.32250410305 and Y8BSH11008,respectively);the Science and Technology Basic Work (Gran No.2013FY112100).
Obtaining reliable species identification of the legume genus Caragana has been challenging.Until now,species identification was mostly carried out utilizing diagnostic morphological characteristics,in addition to som...
Supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (No.2018YFD0900803);the China Agriculture Research System of MOF and MARA (No.CARS-47);the Central Public-Interest Scientific Institution Basal Research Fund (Nos.2021JC01,20603022022024)
The first record of abnormal body coloration in Sebastes koreanus Kim and Lee,1994,from the Yellow Sea of China,was documented based on morphological characteristics and DNA barcoding.The two rockfish specimens were c...
Support was also provided by Guangzhou Science and Technology Plan Project(No.2019A141405024)。
Background:Spermacoce pusilla Wallich(S.pusilla)is widely used in Guangdong province of China.It has valuable medicinal value in treating trauma,fractures,carbuncle,swelling,and poisonous snake bites.Method:The presen...