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Phylosymbiosis and Parallel Geographical Patterns in the Gut Microbiota of Desert‐Dwelling Amphibians and Reptiles

open access: yesIntegrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Host species emerge as a significant contributor to interspecies variations in the gut microbiota of desert‐dwelling amphibians and reptiles, illustrating phylosymbiosis among the studied species. Geographical factors partially account for interpopulation variations in the gut microbiota of Bufotes pewzowi and Teratoscincus przewalskii, with parallel ...
Wei Zhu   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nominalization and focus constructions in some Kiranti languages [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
It is well-known that in many if not most Sino-Tibetan languages relative clause and attribute/genitive markers are identical with nominalization devices and that sentences bearing such markers can also function as independent utterances (cf.
Bickel, Balthasar
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Beyond Sexual Selection: Natural Selection Related Camouflage and Thermoregulation Shape Sexual Color Dimorphism in Diploderma Lizards

open access: yesIntegrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Integrating comparative spectrometry, image analysis, and thermal modeling, we reveal that (1) females optimize crypsis via background matching, (2) males prioritize high‐contrast disruptive patterning at a significant thermoregulatory cost (reduced solar heat gain), and (3) habitat‐specific monomorphism in Diploderma slowinskii underscores ecological ...
Yuning Cao, Lin Shi, Yin Qi
wiley   +1 more source

Variable finals in proto-Sino-Tibetan [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This paper concentrates on variable finals, and argues that just as we find a certain amount of both rule-governed and non-rule governed variation in modern languages, in reconstructing Proto-Sino-Tibetan we should recognize the possibility of these ...
LaPolla, Randy J.
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Effects of parachute science on local research capacity 降落伞科学对当地研究能力的影响

open access: yesConservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Strengthening research capacity is essential to address the global biodiversity crisis. Yet, parachute science often undermines this goal, and its prevalence, costs, and benefits are unclear. We analyzed 13,502 publications on primate research that we extracted from Scopus (1960–2022) to evaluate the effects of parachute science on local ...
Li Yang   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

How the Turtle Lost its Shell: Sino-Tibetan Divination Manuals and Cultural Translation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This article is a pan-Himalayan story about how the turtle, as a cultural symbol within Sino-Tibetan divination iconography, came to more closely resemble a frog.
Poupard, Duncan J
core   +1 more source

Green Space Production as a State Project in Urban China

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
Short Abstract We examine the politics of developing Chengdu's greenway project by advancing the concept of state entrepreneurialism through strategic embeddedness and tactical mobilisation. We define strategic embeddedness as the institutional integration of market into the state apparatus to achieve the state's strategic goals and tactical ...
Handuo Deng, Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

Review of: Thurgood, Graham, and Randy LaPolla, eds. The Sino-Tibetan Languages. Second Edition

open access: yesJournal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2018
This is a review of the second edition of The Sino-Tibetan Languages, the 53-article collection edited by Graham Thurgood and Randy LaPolla.
George van Driem
doaj  

A forensic population database of autosomal STR and X-STR markers in the Qiang ethnic minority of China

open access: yesHeliyon, 2023
The Qiang ethnic group is one of the oldest ethnic groups in China and is the most active ethnic group among all the populations along the Tibetan-Yi corridor. They have had a profound impact nationally and internationally.
Zefei Wang   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

The survey of the Himalayan-Sino-Tibetan species of the genus Dicerogastra Fletcher, 1961 (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae, Hadeninae), with the description of two new species from China [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The taxonomic survey of the Himalayan-Sino-Tibetan species of the hadenine genus Dicerogastra Fletcher, 1961 is given, with the descriptions of two new species, D. euxoides sp. n. and D. jensergabori sp. n., from China.
Gyulai, Péter   +2 more
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