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

Wild animals and plants have developed a variety of adaptive traits driven by adaptive
evolution, an important strategy for species survival and persistence. Uncovering the …

Population genomic analyses of high-altitude humans and other vertebrates have identified
numerous candidate genes for hypoxia adaptation, and the physiological pathways …

To cope with the reduced availability of O2 at high altitude, air-breathing vertebrates have
evolved myriad adjustments in the cardiorespiratory system to match tissue O2 delivery with …

In mammals and other air-breathing vertebrates that live at high altitude, adjustments in
convective O 2 transport via changes in blood hemoglobin (Hb) content and/or Hb-O 2 …

The primary aim of this book is to provide a synthesis of our current understanding of
hemoglobin function and evolution, and to illustrate how research on one particular family of …

Primates have adapted to numerous environments and lifestyles but very few species are
native to high elevations. Here we investigated high-altitude adaptations in the gelada …

Predicting evolutionary outcomes is an important research goal in a diversity of contexts.
The focus of evolutionary forecasting is usually on adaptive processes, and efforts to …

High-altitude environments present strong stresses for living organisms, which have driven
striking phenotypic and genetic adaptations. While previous studies have revealed multiple …

The roles of chance, contingency, and necessity in evolution are unresolved because they
have never been assessed in a single system or on timescales relevant to historical …