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Dong-Ying MA
Horseflies (Tabanus yao) are mainly distributed in pastoral area and bite human and livestock. A bite from a horsefly can be very painful, and it can cause allergic reactions in humans. There is no information about allergenic horsefly proteins.
Professor Ren LAI of Kunming Institute of Zoology (KIZ) , the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and his Ph.D student Dong-ying MA... more |
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Dong-Dong Wu
Modern human populations exhibit substantial phenotypic variation as evidenced by body mass, height and craniofacial differences shaped by the skeletal system. The human skeletal system has evolved rapidly with the advent of agriculture and it is possible that these changes would have likely been accompanied by changes in selective pressures on the underlying genes, where adapt... more |
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| When the group of systematic evolution and biogeography in the Kunming Institute of Zoology examined the specimens of Triplophysa, the specimenscollected in April 2008 from Jianchuan in Dali Prefecture, Yunnan, China was recognized as a new species and named Triplophysa jianchuanensis. T. jianchuanensis can be distinguished from the other Triplophysa species by the following combination of char... more |
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Scientists from Kunming Institute of Zoology (KIZ) and affiliates of Shenyang Normal University, Royal Ontario Museum, and the University of California, recently collaborated to investigate the phylogeny of the Asian spiny frog tribe Paini, Family Dicroglossidae.
The anuran tribe Paini, is known in this group only from Asia. These aquatic and semi-aquatic species live mostly in swift, ... more |
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Kong Qingpeng, a Scientist of Kunming Institute of Zoology (KIZ), in collaboration across multiple institutions, recently published a manuscript on the migration of Native Americans through investigation of mitochondrial DNA.
It is widely accepted that the ancestors of Native Americans arrived in the New World via Beringia approximately 10 to 30 thousand years ago (kya). However, the a... more |
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