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（image from Asian Scientist）
Asian Scientist (May 14, 2013) – A team of scientists from China have found that the lengthy and intimate association between dogs and humans has resulted in the genomes of both species evolving in parallel over the past 32,000 years.
To study early dog domestication, a team of researchers led by Dr. Guo-Dong Wang and Dr. Ya-Ping Zhang of the Kunming... more |
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| With a known population of only 110 individuals, the cao vit gibbon, also names eastern black crested gibbon, is one of the rarest ape species in the world, second only to its closest relative, the Hainan gibbon. In 1960s’, they were considered distinct, but was rediscovered along the northern border of Vietnam in 2002. According to an updated survey conducted by the research team of Fauna and... more |
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| January, 2013, on the website of Fauna & Flora international，Dr. Tony Whitten (Fauna & Flora International’s Asia-Pacific regional director) posted a story about his experience of attending the symposium regarding karst and cave biodiversity of southern China. In his story, Dr. Whitten not only described how successful this cave diversity project was, but also expressed his concern of environ... more |
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| Tanzeel Huma Anwar of theState Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Kunming Institute of Zoology (KIZ), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), recently published a review on the growing impact of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) in the Pakistani Medical Reviews, illustrating the growing problems raised by the rise in Alzheimer’s as one of the most common forms of dementia afflicting aging popu... more |
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| Visitors to China can hardly miss the quintessential ponds of goldfish that dot the landscapes temples, public parks, and buildings across the country. Indeed, goldfish have been an aesthetic component of religious landscaping in China at least since the first written records of their use in the Tsin Dynasty (265–419 A.D.), well before the fish was transferred to Japan in the sixteenth century... more |
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