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| As one of the most obvious phenotypic characters, coat color in domestic pigs is of great importance in artificial selections. Six-white-point (SWP) coat (white coat on the four feet, the head, and the end of tail but with the remaining coat being black) is one of the common pigmentation patterns being found in many different breeds of both European and East Asian domestic pigs. Previous studie... more |
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| The genus Rena includes over 100 species. The true frogs of genus Rana are widely inhabited in both New and Old World, and are mainly found in the northern hemisphere, e.g., Asia, Europe, North America and north of South America. As the model animals which are commonly applied in behavior, development, genetics, physiology, ecology and evolution, these species have received extensive attentions... more |
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| In biodiversity conservation, e.g., bird conservation, it is a common sense that the primary forests are the crucial areas. However, due to the facts that most of the primary forests are restricted to ridges and are in decreasing in areas, whereas, quite large proportions mountainous regions are covered by human-modified forests, and species turnover changes rapidly along montane elevation grad... more |
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Following the groundbreaking ascent of Mount Everest In 1953 by Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary, the Sherpa people gained such cachet that their name became vernacular shorthand and pop culture reference for much of the twentieth century. In Nepal today, many Sherpas rely on serve as Mountaineering enthusiasts’ Poter and guider for a living.
Sherpas live in the Khumbu region of Nepal... more |
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| Austro-Asiatic (AA) language has a somewhat unique geographic distribution, with a wide distribution not only in southern China and Southeast Asia, but also in India. AA is the eighth largest language family in the world in terms of population size (104 millions) with two major branches: Munda in eastern, northeastern and central India and Mon-Khmer, which stretches from northeastern India to t... more |
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