Dr.Marta Kempf and students Anna Mikotajczyk,Maciej Weigt,Daria Jadwisienczak,and Simona Jeziorowska from the Interdepartmental Students Scientific Group of the University of Agriculture in Krakow,Poland,members of the GenTree consortium(EU Horizon 2020 Grant Agreement No.676876);NERC(Grant No.NE/H003959/1)for providing plant material from several populations included in the study;the Polish National Science Centre(UM0-2017/27/B/NZ9/00159);Wer-onika B.Zukowska acknowledges financial support from NCN Preludium project(UMO-2016/21/N/NZ9/01499).
We analyzed mitochondrial DNA polymorphisms to search for evidence of the genetic structure and patterns of admixture in 124 populations(N=1407 trees)across the distribution of Scots pine in Europe and Asia.The marker...
This work is supported by the Key Laboratory of Yunnan Province Universities of the Diversity and Ecological Adaptive Evolution for Animals and Plants on Yungui Plateau and the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos 31760103,31260087,31460561,and 31660680);Li-Zhou Tang acknowledges the Yunnan Applied Basic Research Projects(Grant No.2018FB050);the training funds of the Ten-Thousand Talents program of Yunnan Province.
The southwest mountainous region of China has been characterized as one of the worldwide biodiversity hotspots, but mechanisms underlying diversification of organisms in this region are still not clear. We assessed wh...
The authors acknowledge with thanks the financial support from the Polish National Science Centre(Grant No.UMO-2015/19/B/NZ9/00024);The authors also thank Krystyna Boratynska from the Institute of Dendrology,Polish Academy of Sciences,for providing plant material.
The dwarf mountain pine(Pinus mugo)and the Pyrenean pine(P. uncinata)constitute a pair of closely related coniferous taxa of poorly resolved evolutionary history and affinity,which inhabit numerous stands scattered ov...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.31570545,31370260,and 31600163).
The species delimitation within Abies delavayi complex,consisting of A.delavayi Franch.,A.fabri(Mast.)Craib,A.nukiangensis W.C.Cheng&L.K.Fu,and A.delavayi subsp.fansipanensis(Q.P.Xiang,L.K.Fu&Nan Li)Rushforth,has been...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China,the National Excellent Youth Science Foundation of China,the Shanghai Rising-Star Program,the Shanghai Commission of Education Research Innovation Key Project,Shanghai Professional Development Funding
Hainan, an island linking mainland East Asia and Southeast Asia, lay in one of the routes of early migration to East Asia. The largest indigenous group of Hainan is called Hlai, possibly direct descendants of the earl...
This work was partly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 31071098, 91131002), the National Excellent Youth Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 31222030), Shanghai Rising-Star Program (Grant No. 12QA1400300), Shanghai Commission of Educa- tion Research Innovation Key Project (Grant No.11zz04), and Shanghai Professional Development Funding (Grant No. 2010001).
Linguistics and genetics always reach similar results in phylogenetic studies of human populations. A previous study found that populations speaking Han Chinese dialects have closer genetic relationships to each other...
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 31071098, 30860124, 30890034, 91131002), National Excellent Youth Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 31222030), Shanghai Rising-Star Program (Grant No. 12QA1400300), Shanghai Commission of Education Research Innovation Key Project (Grant No. 11zz04), and Shanghai Professional Development Funding (Grant No. 201000 I).
The Utsat people do not belong to one of the recognized ethnic groups in Hainan, China. Some historical literature and linguistic classification confirm a close cultural relationship between the Utsat and Cham people;...
This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Guangxi (Grant No. 2011GXNSFA018240), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 31071098, 91131002), the National Excellent Youth Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 31222030), the Shanghai Rising-Star Program (Grant No. 12QA 1400300), the Shanghai Commission of Educa- tion Research Innovation Key Project (Grant No.11zz04), and Shanghai Professional Development Funding (Grant No. 2010001).
The origins of Kam-Sui speaking Chadong and Mulam people have been controversial subjects in ethnic history studies and other related fields. Here, we studied Y chromosome (40 informative single nucleotide polymorphi...
Acknowledgements The authors thank Richard ABBOTT (School of Biology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK) and Richard MILNE (Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK) for comments on a previous version of the manuscript. The field explorations were aided by Qin WANG (State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, College of Life Science, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China) and Shi-Long CHEN and Shen-Yun CHEN (Laboratory of Qinhai-Tibet Biologi- cal Evolution and Adaptation, Northwest Plateau Insti- tute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xin- ing, China). This research was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30930072 and 40972018), the Key Project of Interna- tional Collaboration Program, the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2010DFB63500), and the International Collaboration '111' Project (to JQL).
The aim of the present study was to examine the phylogeographic and evolutionary history of Picea lildangensis, a dominant species of the conifer forests in the eastern declivity of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. We col...