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| When the group of systematic evolution and biogeography in the Kunming Institute of Zoology examined the specimens of Triplophysa, the specimenscollected in April 2008 from Jianchuan in Dali Prefecture, Yunnan, China was recognized as a new species and named Triplophysa jianchuanensis. T. jianchuanensis can be distinguished from the other Triplophysa species by the following combination of char... more |
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Scientists from Kunming Institute of Zoology (KIZ) and affiliates of Shenyang Normal University, Royal Ontario Museum, and the University of California, recently collaborated to investigate the phylogeny of the Asian spiny frog tribe Paini, Family Dicroglossidae.
The anuran tribe Paini, is known in this group only from Asia. These aquatic and semi-aquatic species live mostly in swift, ... more |
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Kong Qingpeng, a Scientist of Kunming Institute of Zoology (KIZ), in collaboration across multiple institutions, recently published a manuscript on the migration of Native Americans through investigation of mitochondrial DNA.
It is widely accepted that the ancestors of Native Americans arrived in the New World via Beringia approximately 10 to 30 thousand years ago (kya). However, the a... more |
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Investigation of the recently released Domestic Dog Genome
The recent release of the domestic dog genome provided Kunming Institute of Zoology (KIZ) scientist, Han Leng, with an ideal opportunity to collaborate with an American-based researcher and investigate dog-specific genomic features.
In their study, they performed a systematic analysis of CpG islands (CGIs), which are often ... more |
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Figure. Much of the gibbons' natural habitat has been converted to
farmland (cited from the paper).
The Nangunhe Nature Reserve in Southwest Yunnan (PRC) has long been presumed to be the last stronghold of lar (or white-handed) gibbons (Hylobates lar) in China and the likely to be the last place of occurrence of Hylobates lar yunnanensis.
Kunming Institute of Zoology (KIZ) rese... more |
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