|
|
The rapidity, repeatability, cost-effectiveness, and comprehensiveness of metabarcoding will transform the environmental sciences and make it possible to use measures of biodiversity to address many of China’s needs.
Managing the forces that affect both the levels and distribution of biodiversity requires the ability to measure biodiversity comprehensively, reliably, repeatedly, and over l... more |
|
|
|
| Convergent evolution describes the acquisition of the same biological trait in unrelated lineages, whereas, parallel evolution is the development of a similar trait in related, but distinct, species descending from the same ancestor, but different clades. An iconic example of either of them via natural selection is echolocation by bats, toothed whales and dolphins. Echolocation, also called bio... more |
|
|
|
| Erinaceidae is a family of small mammals that include spiny hedgehogs (Erinaceinae)，hairy moonrats and gymnures (Galericinae). Hedgehogs (erinaceines) are small, spiny nocturnal mammals that live throughout Eurasia and Africa.The closest living relatives to hedgehogs are moonrats and gymnures (galericines) which are confined to the damp forests in Southeast Asia. They are the oldest known livi... more |
|
|
|
| Horizontal gene transfer (HGT), the transfer of genetic material between organisms other than vertical gene transfer (transfer from the parents to offspring), is an important force in speciation and genome evolution. Although numerous cases of HGT have been documented in prokaryotes and unicellular eukaryotes, a common belief is that HGT is rare in multicellular eukaryotes such as animals, let ... more |
|
|
|
Olfactory receptor gene family is the largest gene family in mammalian genomes, this gene family is under strong selection in large scales, however, how about the gene family in the microscale, are they under selections or random drift?
Zhang Yaping's lab at Kunming Institute of Zoology (KIZ), working on the dog, studied the olfactory receptor gene family in the dog. As a firstly domesticat... more |
|
|
|
|
|
|
