Soil calcium carbonate (CaCO 3) impacts plant mineral nutrition far beyond Fe metabolism,
imposing constraints for crop growth and quality in calcareous agrosystems. Our knowledge …

Although it is well documented that mountains tend to exhibit high biodiversity, how
geological processes affect the assemblage of montane floras is a matter of ongoing …

Balanced mating type polymorphisms offer a distinct window into the forces shaping sexual
reproduction strategies. Multiple hermaphroditic genera in Juglandaceae, including walnuts …

Ghost introgression, or the transfer of genetic material from extinct or unsampled lineages to
sampled species, has attracted much attention. However, conclusive evidence for ghost …

One of the major goals of contemporary evolutionary biology is to elucidate the relative roles
of allopatric and ecological differentiation and polyploidy in speciation. In this study, we …

A fundamental objective of evolutionary biology is to understand the origin of independently
evolving species. Phylogenetic studies of species radiations rarely are able to document …

Platycarya strobilacea belongs to the walnut family (Juglandaceae), is commonly known as
species endemic to East Asia, and is an ecologically important, wind pollinated, woody …

Understanding the genetic characteristics of indigenous goat breeds is crucial for their
conservation and breeding efforts. Hainan black goats, as a native breed of south China's …

The maintenance of stable mating type polymorphisms is a classic example of balancing
selection, underlying the nearly ubiquitous 50/50 sex ratio in species with separate sexes …

Aim Species with disjunct geographic distributions provide natural opportunities to
investigate incipient or recent allopatric divergence. The combination of both genetic and …