Wenchengia alternifolia(Lamiaceae),the sole species of the genus Wenchengia is extremely rare and is currently listed as Critically Endangered(CR) on the IUCN Red List. The species had long been considered endemic to ...Wenchengia alternifolia(Lamiaceae),the sole species of the genus Wenchengia is extremely rare and is currently listed as Critically Endangered(CR) on the IUCN Red List. The species had long been considered endemic to Hainan Island,China and was once believed to be extinct until a small remnant population was rediscovered at the type locality in 2010.Four more populations were later found on Hainan and in Vietnam.In order to develop genomic resources for further studies on population genetics and conservation biology of this rare species,we identified infraspecific molecular markers in the present study,using genome skimming data of five individuals collected from two populations on Hainan Island and three populations in Vietnam respectively.The length of plastome of the five individuals varied from 152,961 bp to 150,204 bp,and exhibited a typical angiosperm quadripartite structure.Six plastid hotspot regions with the Pi> 0.01(trnH-psbA,psbA-trnK,rpl22,ndhE,ndhG-ndhI rps15-ycf1),and 1621 polymorphic gSSRs,as well as 1657 candidate SNPs in 237 variant nuclear genes were identified,thereby providing important information for further genetic studies.展开更多
Cestode larvae spend one phase of their two-phase life cycle in the viscera of rodents, but cases of cestodes infecting subterranean rodents have only been rarely observed. To experimentally gain some insight into thi...Cestode larvae spend one phase of their two-phase life cycle in the viscera of rodents, but cases of cestodes infecting subterranean rodents have only been rarely observed. To experimentally gain some insight into this phenomenon, we captured approximately 300 plateau zokors(Eospalax baileyi), a typical subterranean rodent inhabiting the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and examined their livers for the presence of cysts. Totally, we collected five cysts, and using a mitochondrial gene(cox1) and two nuclear genes(pepck and pold) as genetic markers, we were able to analyze the taxonomy of the cysts. Both the maximum likelihood and Bayesian methods showed that the cysts share a monophyly with Taenia mustelae, while Kimura 2-parameter distances and number of different sites between our sequences and T. mustelae were far less than those found between the examined sequences and other Taeniidae species. These results, alongside supporting paraffin section histology, imply that the cysts found in plateau zokors can be regarded as larvae of T. mustelae, illustrating that zokors are a newly discovered intermediate host record of this parasite.展开更多
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(grant number 31970225 and 31900181)the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation(grant number LY19C030007)the Open Fund of Shanghai Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics and Resources(PFGR202104).
文摘Wenchengia alternifolia(Lamiaceae),the sole species of the genus Wenchengia is extremely rare and is currently listed as Critically Endangered(CR) on the IUCN Red List. The species had long been considered endemic to Hainan Island,China and was once believed to be extinct until a small remnant population was rediscovered at the type locality in 2010.Four more populations were later found on Hainan and in Vietnam.In order to develop genomic resources for further studies on population genetics and conservation biology of this rare species,we identified infraspecific molecular markers in the present study,using genome skimming data of five individuals collected from two populations on Hainan Island and three populations in Vietnam respectively.The length of plastome of the five individuals varied from 152,961 bp to 150,204 bp,and exhibited a typical angiosperm quadripartite structure.Six plastid hotspot regions with the Pi> 0.01(trnH-psbA,psbA-trnK,rpl22,ndhE,ndhG-ndhI rps15-ycf1),and 1621 polymorphic gSSRs,as well as 1657 candidate SNPs in 237 variant nuclear genes were identified,thereby providing important information for further genetic studies.
基金supported by the West Light Foundation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences President Scholarship(to G.Lin)
文摘Cestode larvae spend one phase of their two-phase life cycle in the viscera of rodents, but cases of cestodes infecting subterranean rodents have only been rarely observed. To experimentally gain some insight into this phenomenon, we captured approximately 300 plateau zokors(Eospalax baileyi), a typical subterranean rodent inhabiting the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and examined their livers for the presence of cysts. Totally, we collected five cysts, and using a mitochondrial gene(cox1) and two nuclear genes(pepck and pold) as genetic markers, we were able to analyze the taxonomy of the cysts. Both the maximum likelihood and Bayesian methods showed that the cysts share a monophyly with Taenia mustelae, while Kimura 2-parameter distances and number of different sites between our sequences and T. mustelae were far less than those found between the examined sequences and other Taeniidae species. These results, alongside supporting paraffin section histology, imply that the cysts found in plateau zokors can be regarded as larvae of T. mustelae, illustrating that zokors are a newly discovered intermediate host record of this parasite.
