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Convergent Variations in the Leaf Traits of Desert Plants
Plants, 2020 Convergence is commonly caused by environmental filtering, severe climatic conditions and local disturbance. The basic aim of the present study was to understand the pattern of leaf traits across diverse desert plant species in a common garden, in ...
Muhammad Adnan Akram +7 more
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Identification of species and materia medica within Saussurea subg. Amphilaena based on DNA barcodes [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 Saussurea is one of the most species-rich genera in the family Asteraceae, where some have a complex evolutionary history, including radiation and convergent evolution, and the identification of these species is notoriously difficult. This genus contains
Jie Chen +3 more
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Interspecific delimitation and relationships among four Ostrya species based on plastomes
BMC Genetics, 2019 Background The genus Ostrya (Betulaceae) contains eight species and four of them are distributed in China. However, studies based on limited informative sites of several chloroplast markers failed to resolve interspecific delimitation and relationships ...
Yanyou Jiang +4 more
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Nature Communications, 2023 Hyoscyamine and scopolamine (HS), two valuable tropane alkaloids of significant medicinal importance, are found in multiple distantly related lineages within the Solanaceae family. Here we sequence the genomes of three representative species that produce
Jiao Yang +11 more
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Environmental DNA, 2022 The global biodiversity crisis from anthropogenic activities significantly weakens the functioning of marine ecosystems and jeopardizes their ecosystem services.
Romane Rozanski +7 more
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Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 Speciation is the key evolutionary process for generating biological diversity and has a central place in evolutionary and ecological research. How species diverge and adapt to different habitats is one of the most exciting areas in speciation studies ...
Zeyu Zheng +11 more
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Frontiers in Genetics, 2019 Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are involved in various biological regulatory processes, but their roles in plants resistance to salt stress remain largely unknown.
Jianchao Ma +9 more
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Communications Biology, 2023 Urban greening provides important ecosystem services and ideal places for urban recreation and is a serious consideration for municipal decision-makers.
Zefu Wang +6 more
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Microbiology Spectrum, 2022 Nitrate reducers containing narG or napA play an important role in the nitrogen cycle, but little is known about their functional differentiations in relation to environmental changes.
Xing Chen +4 more
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Ecological Indicators, 2023 Morphometric indices of body condition are assumed to reflect an animal’s health and ultimately its fitness, but their physiological significance remains a matter of debate.
Pablo Brosset +5 more
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