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The Chinese Alligator [PDF]

Oryx, 1981
The author, who is a scientist at the Zoological Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, describes the serious plight of China's endemic alligator. This last summer he was joined by an American research scientist, Dr Myrna E. Watanabe, in a further study of the alligator, and we hope to carry their report in a later issue.
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The conservation status of the Chinese alligator [PDF]

Oryx, 1999
Abstract The Chinese alligator Alligator sinensis is one of the world's most endangered reptiles. At one time widespread throughout much of the lower Yangzi River basin, the remaining wild individuals are now restricted to a small area in southern Anhui Province and perhaps in adjacent Zhejiang Province.
John Thorbjarnarson, Wang Xiaoming
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Major histocompatibility complex genomic investigation of endangered Chinese alligator provides insights into the evolution of tetrapod major histocompatibility complex and survival of critically bottlenecked species

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
BackgroundThe major histocompatibility complex (MHC) gene family, a vital immune gene family in vertebrates, helps animals defend against pathogens. The polymorphism of MHC genes is important for a species and is considered to be caused by the numerous ...
Ke He, Ke He, Ying Zhu, Ying Zhu, Shang-Chen Yang, Qing Ye, Qing Ye, Sheng-Guo Fang, Qiu-Hong Wan   +8 more
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Sensitive and rapid detection of Ortleppascaris sinensis (Nematoda: Ascaridoidea) by loop-mediated isothermal amplification [PDF]

PeerJ, 2019
Ortleppascaris sinensis is the dominant nematode species infecting the gastrointestinal tract of the captive Chinese alligator, a critically endangered species.
Jinhong Zhao, Wei Xu, Genjun Tu, Yongkang Zhou, Xiaobing Wu   +4 more
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Historical population decline and habitat loss in a critically endangered species, the Chinese alligator (Alligator sinensis)

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2019
Habitat loss and degradation are among the leading causes of local extinctions, so it is crucially important to preserve and restore the remaining critical habitat increasingly critical to conserve biodiversity.
Tao Pan, Huan Wang, Shulong Duan, Izaz Ali, Peng Yan, Ruiqing Cai, Mingsheng Wang, Jihui Zhang, Huabin Zhang, Baowei Zhang, Xiaobing Wu   +10 more
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Asian crocodile poaching: A review of molecular techniques developed for forensic identification

Journal of Forensic Science and Medicine, 2022
Crocodiles, gharials and alligators (order Crocodilia), are aquatic reptiles that live in the tropics of Asia, America, Africa, and Australia. Asian countries such as India, Indonesia, Malaysia, and tropics of Australia are the stronghold of the family ...
Ishani Mitra, Soma Roy, Ikramul Haque
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Chinese Alligators

Reptiles & Amphibians, 2013
I present previously unpublished data on the breeding habits and related conservation efforts on behalf of the endangered endemic Chinese Alligator (Alligator sinensis) collected through interviews and observations conducted at the Changxing Nature Reserve & Breeding Center for Chinese Alligators.
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Influencing Factors and Measurement of “Willingness to Accept” Living with Alligators in a Nature Reserve: A Case Study in National Chinese Alligator Nature Reserve, China

Land, 2022
The establishment of nature reserves is an important measure to protect the wild population of Chinese alligators. Due to the overlap of nature reserves and human living areas, there is a certain conflict between economic development and ecological ...
Yefei Liu, Gui Meng, Shuirong Wu, Xufeng Zhang, Chengle Zhao, Hongguo Yang   +5 more
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Organic Materials of Tomorrow: Horizons of Artificial Intelligence

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review examines machine learning techniques accelerating the discovery of organic semiconductors by linking molecular structure to properties. Key methods include graph neural networks, generative models, and active learning. Applications to organic photovoltaics demonstrate practical impact.
Harold Mena, J. Terence Blaskovits, Kun‐Han Lin, Denis Andrienko   +3 more
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Selenium Nanoparticles Selectively Target KRAS G13D to Inhibit Colorectal Cancer

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
The mechanisms of SeNPs therapy in cancer treatment, encompass three parallel actions: (1) seleno‐amino acids, key metabolites, upregulate GPX2 expression, thereby inhibiting tumor metastasis via the GPX2‐HIF1α‐VEGF signaling pathway; (2) selenite (SeO32−), an inorganic metabolite, forms hydrogen bonds with amino acid residues 13–17 of the KRAS G13D ...
Xiaoting Liu, Chong Wu, Shiyao Song, Li Ma, Shaoqing Huang, Yuting He, Qinghai Li, Yanzhou Chang, Dan Jiang, Yong Mei, Junchao Cai, Zhenshuang Du, Tianfeng Chen, Weiling He   +13 more
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