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A joint team of researchers led by Prof. ZHANG Yaping from Kunming Institute of Zoology of Chinese Academy of Sciences has discovered evidence that historical drainage patterns adjacent to the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau differed markedly from those of today.
The researchers examined the relationship between drainage history and geographic patterns of genetic variation in the Yunnan spiny frog,... more |
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Southern China was likely the genetic reservoir of modern humans after theyentered East Asia, according to researchers at Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The paper “Large-scale mtDNA screening reveals a surprising matrilineal complexity in East Asia and its implications to the peopling of the region” by KONG Qingpeng et al, suggests that the unclassified mtDNAs ... more |
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| In celebrating of the bi-centenary of Darwin's birth, Journal of Animal Ecology, which is founded in 1930 and now is one of the flagship journals of ecological society, compiled a virtual issue of some of the exciting works showing the links between ecology and evolution. These selected papers have made a major impact on the way we think. The paper of Dr Rui-Wu Wang et al. published in 2008 was... more |
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Gymnodiptychus integrigymnatus is a critically endangered species endemic to the Gaoligongshan Mountains. It was thought to be only distributed in several headwater-streams of the Longchuanjiang River (west slope of the Gaoligongshan Mountains, belonging to the Irrawaddy River drainage). It was listed in Chinese Red List as critically endangered species. From 1998 to 2008, the Kunming Inst... more |
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