The Sichuan hot-spring snake(Thermophis zhaoermii)is a rare and endemic species found at high elevations in the Hengduan Mountains of China.Recent species-specific investigations showed that the Sichuan hot-spring sna...The Sichuan hot-spring snake(Thermophis zhaoermii)is a rare and endemic species found at high elevations in the Hengduan Mountains of China.Recent species-specific investigations showed that the Sichuan hot-spring snake is still restricted to geothermal zones at elevations higher than 3000 m a.s.l.The species also remains at risk of extinction,with the effective population size showing continual decline over the past one million years based on coalescent inference from genome-level single nucleotide polymorphism(SNP)data.We propose several approaches for protecting Sichuan hot-spring snake populations and their habitat.展开更多
基金supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS)(XDB31000000)Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Program(STEP)(2019QZKK0501)+3 种基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(32100396)International Partnership Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(151751KYSB20190024)Biodiversity Survey,Monitoring,and Assessment Project of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment,China(2019HB2096001006)CAS“Light of West China”Program(2018XBZG_JCTD_001)。
文摘The Sichuan hot-spring snake(Thermophis zhaoermii)is a rare and endemic species found at high elevations in the Hengduan Mountains of China.Recent species-specific investigations showed that the Sichuan hot-spring snake is still restricted to geothermal zones at elevations higher than 3000 m a.s.l.The species also remains at risk of extinction,with the effective population size showing continual decline over the past one million years based on coalescent inference from genome-level single nucleotide polymorphism(SNP)data.We propose several approaches for protecting Sichuan hot-spring snake populations and their habitat.
