There is substantial debate about the relative roles of climate change and human activities
on biodiversity and species demographies over the Holocene. In some cases, these two …

Introduction Bambara groundnut (BG)(Vigna subterranea [L.] Verdc) is an indigenous,
resilient, but underutilized leguminous crop that occurs mostly as genetically heterogeneous …

Indigenous and were used to study genetic diversity and population structure analyses.
Polymorphism information content (PIC) values ranged from 0.0 to 0.5, with 21,285 SNP …

Sex chromosomes in poikilothermal vertebrates are characterized by rapid and diverse
evolution at the species or population level. Our previous study revealed that the Taiwanese …

Sex chromosome turnover is the transition between sex chromosomes and autosomes.
Although many cases have been reported in poikilothermic vertebrates, their evolutionary …

Shisa represents a type of single-transmembrane adaptor protein containing an N-terminal
cysteine-rich domain and a proline-rich C-terminal region. Nine shisa subfamily genes have …

Amphibians have highly diverse sex-determining modes leading to a notable interest in
vertebrate sex determination and sex chromosome evolution. The identification of sex …

Sex determination systems (SDSs) in anurans are diverse and have undergone
independent evolutionary transitions among species. The mode of sexual reproduction of …

In forest genetic improvement programs for non-domesticated species, limited knowledge of
kinship can compromise or make the estimation of variance components and genetic …

Freshwater ecosystems and their associated biota have been negatively impacted by the
human development of water resources. Fundamental to restoration activities for target …