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Satellite tracking the migration of Black-necked Cranes in Yunnan Province
In order to discover migration routes of middle winter Black-necked Crane population, ornithologists form KIZ will satellite track five cranes in 2008 winter in Napahai Nature Reserve in Northwestern Yunnan Province. To capture cranes, they experiment by setting snap nooses on the lake shore near crane resting sites.... more |
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| The research conducted at the KIZ has received recognition from many levels of achievements in scientific research including: 3 international awards, 3 national awards, 49 Provincial and/or Ministerial awards and 6 other awards. The institute has also twice received Second Prize and once Third Prize of the National Natural Science Award (NNSA). In the Contribution Award of Yunnan Government, th... more |
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Through information contained in the mitochondrial genome, Prof. Ya-Ping Zhang and colleagues have systematically studied the origin and evolutionary history of modern Asian people. To achieve this, they first reconstructed the mitochondrial DNA phylogeny of East Asian and South Asian populations based on complete mitochondrial genome sequences. They then applied this phylogenetic informat... more |
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| Prof. Ya-Ping Zhang’s group has systematically studied the origin and genetic diversity of major domestic animals, including pig, cattle, yak, dog, sheep, goat, chicken, goose, rabbit, horse, donkey and camel. By using both mitochondrial and Y-chromosome DNA sequences, they demonstrated an East Asian origin of domestic dogs around 15,000 years ago, which was published in Science as a cover pap... more |
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| Using genetic markers, the research group led by Prof Bing Su systematically studied the extensive populations of East Asia, Southeast Asia, Central Asia and North Asia as well as multiple ethnic populations from China. They demonstrated that modern humans in East Asia share a recent common ancestor in Africa and, therefore, provided further support for the “Out of Africa” hypothesis of the o... more |
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