Understanding divergent domestication traits from the whole-genome sequencing of swamp- and river-buffalo populations     

Xier Luo  Yu Zhou  Bing Zhang  Yi Zhang  Xiaobo Wang  Tong Feng  Zhipeng Li  Kuiqing Cui  Zhiqiang Wang  Chan Luo  Hui Li  Yanfei Deng  Fenghua Lu  Jianlin Han  Yongwang Miao  Huaming Mao  Xiaoyan Yi  Cheng Ai  Shigang Wu  Alun Li  Zhichao Wu  Zijun Zhuo  Do Da Giang  Bikash Mitra  Mohammad Farhad Vahidi  Shahid Mansoor  Sahar Ahmed Al-Bayatti  Eka Meutia Sari  Neena Amatya Gorkhali  Sigit Prastowo  Laiba Shafique  Guoyou Ye  Qian Qian  Baoshan Chen  Deshun Shi  Jue Ruan  Qingyou Liu 《国家科学评论(英文版)》2020,7(3):686

Domesticated buffaloes have been integral to rice-paddy agro-ecosystems for millennia, yet relatively little is known about the buffalo genomics. Here, we sequenced and assembled reference genomes for both swamp and river buffaloes and we re-sequenced 230 individuals (132 swamp buffaloes and 98 river buffaloes) sampled from across Asia and Europe. Beyond the many actionable insights that our study revealed about the domestication, basic physiology and breeding of buffalo, we made the striking discovery that the divergent domestication traits between swamp and river buffaloes can be explained with recent selections of genes on social behavior, digestion metabolism, strengths and milk production.  相似文献   

Rapid phenotypic evolution with shallow genomic differentiation during early stages of high elevation adaptation in Eurasian Tree Sparrows     

Yanhua Qu  Chunhai Chen  Ying Xiong  Huishang She  Yong E Zhang  Yalin Cheng  Shane DuBay  Dongming Li  Per G P Ericson  Yan Hao  Hongyuan Wang  Hongfeng Zhao  Gang Song  Hailin Zhang  Ting Yang  Chi Zhang  Liping Liang  Tianyu Wu  Jinyang Zhao  Qiang Gao  Weiwei Zhai  Fumin Lei 《国家科学评论(英文版)》2020,7(1):113

Known as the ‘third polar region’, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau represents one of the harshest highland environments in the world and yet a number of organisms thrive there. Previous studies of birds, animals and humans have focused on well-differentiated populations in later stages of phenotypic divergence. The adaptive processes during the initial phase of highland adaptation remain poorly understood. We studied a human commensal, the Eurasian Tree Sparrow, which has followed human agriculture to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Despite strong phenotypic differentiation at multiple levels, in particular in muscle-related phenotypes, highland and lowland populations show shallow genomic divergence and the colonization event occurred within the past few thousand years. In a one-month acclimation experiment investigating phenotypic plasticity, we exposed adult lowland tree sparrows to a hypoxic environment and did not observe muscle changes. Through population genetic analyses, we identified a signature of polygenic adaptation, whereby shifts in allele frequencies are spread across multiple loci, many of which are associated with muscle-related processes. Our results reveal a case of positive selection in which polygenic adaptation appears to drive rapid phenotypic evolution, shedding light on early stages of adaptive evolution to a novel environment.  相似文献   

Large-scale multiferroic complex oxide epitaxy with magnetically switched polarization enabled by solution processing     

Cong Liu  Feng An  Paria S M Gharavi  Qinwen Lu  Junkun Zha  Chao Chen  Liming Wang  Xiaozhi Zhan  Zedong Xu  Yuan Zhang  Ke Qu  Junxiang Yao  Yun Ou  Zhiming Zhao  Xiangli Zhong  Dongwen Zhang  Nagarajan Valanoor  Lang Chen  Tao Zhu  Deyang Chen  Xiaofang Zhai  Peng Gao  Tingting Jia  Shuhong Xie  Gaokuo Zhong  Jiangyu Li 《国家科学评论(英文版)》2020,7(1):84

Complex oxides with tunable structures have many fascinating properties, though high-quality complex oxide epitaxy with precisely controlled composition is still out of reach. Here we have successfully developed solution-based single-crystalline epitaxy for multiferroic (1-x)BiTi_(1-y)/2Fe_yMg_(1-y)/2O₃–(x)CaTiO₃ (BTFM–CTO) solid solution in large area, confirming its ferroelectricity at the atomic scale with strong spontaneous polarization. Careful compositional tuning leads to a bulk magnetization of 0.07 ± 0.035 μ_B/Fe at room temperature, enabling magnetically induced polarization switching exhibiting a large magnetoelectric coefficient of 2.7–3.0 × 10⁻⁷ s/m. This work demonstrates the great potential of solution processing in large-scale complex oxide epitaxy and establishes novel room-temperature magnetoelectric coupling in epitaxial BTFM–CTO film, making it possible to explore a much wider space of composition, phase, and structure that can be easily scaled up for industrial applications.  相似文献   

Hierarchy in materials for maximized efficiency     

Li-Hua Chen  Yu Li  Bao-Lian Su 《国家科学评论(英文版)》2020,7(11):1626

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福建省高校图书馆读者利用文献信息资源研究   总被引：12，自引：0，他引：12  

蔡金钟  向毓轩  陈滨  戴鹭涛 《大学图书馆学报》2006,24(2):89-93,85

以网络为背景,以调查数据为依据,在分析高校读者文献信息需求特点、规律、趋势及影响读者利用文献信息因素的基础上,进行变革服务现状的思路与措施和建立福建省高校图书馆文献信息资源保障体系的研究。  相似文献   

根据道德取向选拔医学生的研究     

张晨 《复旦教育论坛》2006,4(6):86-90

本文在对来自澳大利亚、以色列、斐济、新西兰、苏格兰、英格兰的7864名医学生或医学生申请者以及84名澳大利亚心理学学生进行问卷调查基础上,研究道德取向对职业、伦理标准、伦理行为的影响。本文提出了一个比较新的观点,即衡量一名医学工作者或医学生的道德水准,通过道德取向来衡量,比通过道德决断来衡量更为准确。  相似文献   

指向学科素养发展的深度学习与思考     

陈晓冬 《物理教学》2021,(1):37-40

2017年版普通高中物理课程标准中明确了物理学科核心素养,要求我们从"知识为本"转向"观念建构",在"观念建构"过程中让学生形成从物理视角认识事物和解决问题的思想、方法的科学思维、科学态度.深度学习与学科核心素养发展是相辅相成的,物理学科核心素养需要通过深度学习培养,学生获得的物理学科核心素养反过来又能很好地促进深度学...  相似文献   

新教育的历史使命:重建人文精神     

何瑞芝  程刚 《黄山学院学报》2006,8(4):145-148

近现代的中国由于受新旧价值观念和东西方文明的冲突,以及科学至上主义的影响,人文精神日渐失落,导致个体的人逐渐失去其成其为“人”的精神价值,社会也日益出现道德危机。中华民族迫切需要重建人文精神,人文教育的价值再次凸显。新时期的教育需要将人文精神的教育贯穿在整个教育理念中,树立生命教育观;要建设一支富有人文精神和人文素养的教师队伍,在教育实践中,实现教育目的、教育内容、教育方法和教育评价标准的人本性。新教育承担着重建人文精神的历史使命。  相似文献   

化学试题错解原因分析     

陈卫东  刘安霞 《河北理科教学研究》2006,(4):32-33

常言道：“失败乃成功之母”,“吃一堑,长一智”．从某种意义上说,学习就是从错误中吸取教训,不断改正错误,总结经验,获得真知的循序渐进的过程．故笔者就学生在化学学习中典型试题的错解原因拟文分析,以求与大家共同探讨．  相似文献   

浅谈数控机床的国产化     

陈刚  果玉芝 《河北能源职业技术学院学报》2006,6(3):71-72

我国从1958年开始发展数控技术,到现在已经建立了一定的规模体系.到目前为止我国数控市场大多被国外数控系统占领,本文主要讨论的是国产低价位数控机床、高速高效数控机床和重型数控机床如何占领国内市场.  相似文献