Giant panda, bear with striking black-and-white coloration inhabiting bamboo forests in the mountains of central China. Its coloration, bulky body, and round face gives it a captivating appearance that has endeared it to people worldwide. Learn more abo
Whether the current taxonomy reflects genuine species divergence within woody bamboo is an intriguing question. The Fargesia spathacea Franch. complex comprises 15 closely related species with a sympatric distribution in China. Their classification has long been controversial because only a handful of ...
S2). Significantly high Bray-Curtis dissimilarity using gut microbial genera (genus level in QIIME taxonomy level 6) was uncovered when giant panda and red panda samples were compared with those from deer, humans, cheetah (Menke et al., 2014), black-backed jackal (Menke et al., 2014), ...
The giant panda feeds almost exclusively on bamboo, a diet highly enriched in lignin and cellulose, but is characterized by a digestive tract similar to carnivores. It is still large unknown if and how the giant panda gut microbiota contributes to lignin and cellulose degradation. Here we show ...
The DNA analysis indicated that, now on international generally accepts it lists as Xiong Ke, the panda subfamily classified method, at present also gradually obtains the domestic approval.Domestic traditional classification panda single row for panda branch.It has represented Xiong Ke the early bra ...
Tang[TangYW[TangJing[TangLH[TangLiu[TangQJ[TangYan[TangXX[TangTang, Y.W.; Jing, L.H.; Li, H.; Liu, Q.J.; Yan, Q.; Li, X.X. Bamboo classification using worldview-2 imagery of giant panda...
perlacea. Furthermore, this study indicates a non-significant reduction in the potential distribution area for the species by the 2050s, which is attributed to reduced anthropogenic activities and habitat fragmentation within the Yingjing Area of the Giant Panda National Park. These findings validate ...