The global significance of biodiversity science in China: an overview

X Mi, G Feng, Y Hu, J Zhang, L Chen… - National Science …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Biodiversity science in China has seen rapid growth over recent decades, ranging from
baseline biodiversity studies to understanding the processes behind evolution across …

The role of the uplift of the Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau for the evolution of Tibetan biotas

A Favre, M Päckert, SU Pauls, SC Jähnig… - Biological …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Biodiversity is unevenly distributed on Earth and hotspots of biodiversity are often
associated with areas that have undergone orogenic activity during recent geological history …

agriGO v2. 0: a GO analysis toolkit for the agricultural community, 2017 update

T Tian, Y Liu, H Yan, Q You, X Yi, Z Du… - Nucleic acids …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The agriGO platform, which has been serving the scientific community for> 10 years,
specifically focuses on gene ontology (GO) enrichment analyses of plant and agricultural …

Comparative genomics reveals insights into avian genome evolution and adaptation

G Zhang, C Li, Q Li, B Li, DM Larkin, C Lee, JF Storz… - Science, 2014 - science.org
Birds are the most species-rich class of tetrapod vertebrates and have wide relevance
across many research fields. We explored bird macroevolution using full genomes from 48 …

Whole-genome sequencing of native sheep provides insights into rapid adaptations to extreme environments

JI Yang, WR Li, FH Lv, SG He, SL Tian… - Molecular biology …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Global climate change has a significant effect on extreme environments and a profound
influence on species survival. However, little is known of the genome-wide pattern of …

The Genome 10K Project: a way forward

KP Koepfli, B Paten… - Annu. Rev. Anim …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
The Genome 10K Project was established in 2009 by a consortium of biologists and
genome scientists determined to facilitate the sequencing and analysis of the complete …

Evolutionary origin of species diversity on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau

KS Mao, Y Wang, JQ Liu - Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Qinghai–Tibet Plateau (QTP) sensu lato (sl) houses an exceptional species
diversity in Asia. To develop a comprehensive understanding of species diversity in this …

What have we learned from the first 500 avian genomes?

GA Bravo, CJ Schmitt… - Annual Review of Ecology …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
The increased capacity of DNA sequencing has significantly advanced our understanding of
the phylogeny of birds and the proximate and ultimate mechanisms molding their genomic …

Evolutionary signals of selection on cognition from the great tit genome and methylome

VN Laine, TI Gossmann, KM Schachtschneider… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
For over 50 years, the great tit (Parus major) has been a model species for research in
evolutionary, ecological and behavioural research; in particular, learning and cognition have …

Available data point to a 4‐km‐high Tibetan Plateau by 40 Ma, but 100 molecular‐clock papers have linked supposed recent uplift to young node ages

SS Renner - Journal of Biogeography, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The aims of this study were to synthesize data on the orogeny of the Tibetan Plateau (TP),
with a focus on its elevation since the collision of the Eurasian and Indian plates, and to …