Endurance rivalry and female choice jointly influence male mating success in the emerald treefrog (Zhangixalus prasinatus), a lek-chorusing anuran.

Background: Endurance rivalry and female choice are two important mechanisms of sexual selection in lek-breeding species. Endurance rivalry is when males compete for opportunities to mate by spending more time in leks than others (interaction-independent male-male competition). Because high-quality males can afford to have high lek attendance, females have a higher chance of mating with good-quality males even when they mate randomly.

Recent progress regarding electrochemical sensors for the detection of typical pollutants in water environments.

A variety of organic and inorganic pollutants in water environments pose threats to human health. Therefore, it is critical to develop effective techniques to determine and monitor the levels of water contamination. Compared to traditional detection methods, electrochemical sensors have the advantages of high sensitivity, low detection limits, and good selectivity.

The influence mechanism of the molecular structure on the peak current and peak potential in electrochemical detection of typical quinolone antibiotics.

Antibiotic pollution in water has become an increasingly serious problem, posing a potentially huge threat to human health. Ofloxacin (OFL), norfloxacin (NOR), and enoxacin (ENX) are typical broad-spectrum quinolone antibiotics, which are frequently detected in various water environments. An electrochemical sensor is a rapid and effective tool to detect antibiotics in the aquatic environment.

Composition and Functional Specialists of the Gut Microbiota of Frogs Reflect Habitat Differences and Agricultural Activity.

The physiological impact of agricultural pollution, habitat disturbance, and food source variability on amphibian remains poorly understood. By comparing the composition and predicted functions of gut microbiota of two frog species from forest and farmland, we quantified the effects of the exogenous environment and endogenous filters on gut microbiota and the corresponding functions. However, compositional differences of the gut microbiota between the frog species were not detected, even when removing roughly 80-88% of the confounding effect produced by common and shared bacteria (i.

Changes of diet and dominant intestinal microbes in farmland frogs.

Background: Agricultural activities inevitably result in anthropogenic interference with natural habitats. The diet and the gut microbiota of farmland wildlife can be altered due to the changes in food webs within agricultural ecosystems. In this work, we compared the diet and intestinal microbiota of the frog Fejervarya limnocharis in natural and farmland habitats in order to understand how custom farming affects the health of in vivo microbial ecosystems.

Asymmetric introgression in the horticultural living fossil cycas sect. Asiorientales using a genome-wide scanning approach.

The Asian cycads are mostly allopatric, distributed in small population sizes. Hybridization between allopatric species provides clues in determining the mechanism of species divergence. Horticultural introduction provides the chance of interspecific gene flow between allopatric species.

Characterization of 24 transferable microsatellite loci in four skullcaps (Scutellaria, Labiatae).

Premise Of The Study: Transferable polymorphic microsatellite loci for four skullcaps, Scutellaria indica, S. taiwanensis, S. austrotaiwanensis, and S.