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| In celebrating of the bi-centenary of Darwin's birth, Journal of Animal Ecology, which is founded in 1930 and now is one of the flagship journals of ecological society, compiled a virtual issue of some of the exciting works showing the links between ecology and evolution. These selected papers have made a major impact on the way we think. The paper of Dr Rui-Wu Wang et al. published in 2008 was... more |
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Gymnodiptychus integrigymnatus is a critically endangered species endemic to the Gaoligongshan Mountains. It was thought to be only distributed in several headwater-streams of the Longchuanjiang River (west slope of the Gaoligongshan Mountains, belonging to the Irrawaddy River drainage). It was listed in Chinese Red List as critically endangered species. From 1998 to 2008, the Kunming Inst... more |
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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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