Integration of De Novo Chromosome-Level Genome and Population Resequencing of Peganum(Nitrariaceae): A Case Study of Speciation and Evolutionary Trajectories in Arid Central Asia
February 12, 2025 Pie charts indicate contraction and expansion of gene families among 13 species compared to their ancestors.Bar charts show the statistical results of the number of homologous genes for each species respectively.
Study reveals microbial adaptation mechanism of plateau animals
March 14, 2025 XINING, March 13--A new study has uncovered the substantial impact of altitude on the gut microbiota of the plateau pika, a small mammal, on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in the west of China. The study, conduct...
Utilizing a vegetation restoration potential model to derive a reference for assessing ecological restoration of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
January 17, 2025 When implementing ecological restoration practices, valid references are essential to justify and improve best practices for ecological restoration in natural resource management. Despite numerous assessments of ecolo...
Identification of Candidate Genes Related to Hybrid Sterility by Genomic Structural Variation and Transcriptome Analyses in Cattle-yak
October 18, 2024 Notably, we discovered that the expression of X chromosome-linkedgenes was upregulated in the testis of cattle-yak compared with yak, suggesting a possible abnormality in the process of meiotic sex chromosome inactiva...
Controls on variation of soil organic carbon concentrationin the shrublands of the north-eastern Tibetan Plateau
January 28, 2021 Assessment of soil organic carbon (SOC) concentration in high-altitude shrublands is essential for understanding C dynamics in terrestrial ecosystems.Hence, we investigated the SOC concentration and its influencing fa...