Aim: Mountain vipers belonging to the Montivipera genus represent a fascinating example of neo-endemism found in the high plateaus of Iran, Anatolia and the Caucasus. Given the conservation challenges ...

Beijing Zhongke Journal Publising Co. Ltd. By building a machine learning model, the authors determined the evolutionary information of salt stress-related genes in reference species, allowing ...

Scientists have found further evidence to support the idea that the primary two domains of life, the Archaea and Bacteria, are separated by a long phylogenetic tree branch and therefore distantly ...

Questions: What are the key environmental variables that influence the structure of riparian forests? Do disturbance (flooding) and stress (soil fertility) gradients result in functionally and ...