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| Collaborating with colleagues from the Institute of Life Sciences in Jiangsu, the Second People’s Hospital of the Yunnan Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Yunnan Kunming Blood Center, Drs. PANG Wei and ZHENG Yongtang of the Kunming Institute of Zoology (KIZ, CAS) undertook an in-depth study on the rising entanglement of the drug trade and HIV-1 epidemic along the Golden Triang... more |
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| As the major Austronesian speakers, the Cham people established the ancient Champo Kingdom in Mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA) with a history of over one thousand years. Its origin has been studied from various perspectives, among which the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis in Cham and Kinh individuals from Vietnam suggested that the origin of the Cham was likely a process of assimilation of mas... more |
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| Colobinae is a subfamily of the Old World monkey family. It consists of 10 genera in two subtribes, namely the African Colobinae (including genera Colobus, Piliocolobus, and Procolobus) and the Asian Colobinae (including genera Pygathrix, Rhinopithecus, Nasalis, Simias, Presbytis, Trachypithecus, and Semnopithecus). The phylogenetic relationships among the Asian and African colobine genera have... more |
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Similar protein architectures can be used to bind identical ligands via completely different ways. Retinoids binding proteins are good case for this principle. Interestingly, although RBP, ERABP, CRBPs and CRABPs have homologous structural motifs and overlapping ligand specificity, they have different binding mechanisms.In the same family of proteins and subcellular location, the orientati... more |
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The Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences confirmed the existence of the world’s fifth subspecies of snub-nosed monkey “Nujiang snub-nosed monkey” in China by taking DNA analysis on their excrements collected near China’s Nu River, Yunnan province in March, 2012.
Besides the excrements, forest guards in the Gaoligong Mountains nature preserve also took pictures of a ... more |
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