Biodiversity science in China has seen rapid growth over recent decades, ranging from
baseline biodiversity studies to understanding the processes behind evolution across …

High-throughput sequencing technologies are revolutionizing the life sciences. The past 12
months have seen a burst of genome sequences from non-model organisms, in each case …

INTRODUCTION The ruminants are one of the most successful mammalian lineages,
exhibiting extensive morphological and ecological diversity and containing several key …

Lifespan varies within and across species, but the general principles of its control remain
unclear. Here, we conducted multi-tissue RNA-seq analyses across 41 mammalian species …

Cattle domestication and the complex histories of East Asian cattle breeds warrant further
investigation. Through analysing the genomes of 49 modern breeds and eight East Asian …

Dietary selection and intake affect the survival and health of mammals under extreme
environmental conditions. It has been suggested that dietary composition is a key driver of …

Current sequencing methods produce large amounts of data, but genome assemblies
constructed from these data are often fragmented and incomplete. Incomplete and error …

Genome sequencing projects were long confined to biomedical model organisms and
required the concerted effort of large consortia. Rapid progress in high‐throughput …

We report the sequencing at 131× coverage, de novo assembly and analyses of the genome
of a female Tibetan wild boar. We also resequenced the whole genomes of 30 Tibetan wild …

Studies of genetic adaptation, a central focus of evolutionary biology, most often focus on the
host's genome and only rarely on its co-evolved microbiome. The Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau …