Tracing the role of human civilization in the globalization of plant pathogensCo-evolution between plants and parasites, including herbivores and pathogens, has arguably generated much of Earth's biological diversity. Within an ecosystem, co-evolution of plants and pathogens is a stepwise reciprocal ...
More than 8,800 archaeological excavation projects have been carried out for the past decade. The project to trace the origins of Chinese civilization, initiated in 2002, has proven that China's history includes million years of human evolution, 10,000 years of culture, and more than 5,000 y...
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, has urged further efforts to advance the study of Chinese civilization so its achievements can help the nation firm up cultural confidence and stick to the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Xi called for...
Whichever def- inition of civilization is preferred, it is clear that the history of Asian societies, their human populations and the evolu- tionary history of rice as a crop are inseparable. The Rice (2011) 4:78–92 79 importance of rice agriculture as a motor for demographic growth, ...
the linked tradition of cooking (boiling and steaming), food textural preference (sticky, as with glutinous rice), and feasting and ritual focused on keeping ancestors close. Whichever definition of civilization is preferred, it is clear that the history of Asian societies, their human populations ...
Advances in the sequencing and the analysis of the genomes of both modern and ancient peoples have facilitated a number of breakthroughs in our understanding of human evolutionary history. These include the discovery of interbreeding between anatomically modern humans and extinct hominins; the development...
The Chinese historian, Sima Qian (ca. 145-90 BC), wrote that ~700,000 laborers were requisitioned from all over China to toil in the mausoleum over the course of its construction4, and that the workers consisted 1Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary ...
As each family was expected to have a conserved exon-intron structure throughout Metazoa, the high quality annotations of human GNA- genes were utilized as the initial templates. Sister groups of Mammalia were evaluated next, before moving on to more distant families. For each major clade (...
(AA) sequences of a close relative to the target species were utilized as the query against the target genome. There are 16GNA- genes within humans. As each family was expected to have a conserved exon-intron structure throughout Metazoa, the high quality annotations of humanGNA- genes were...
Tracing the role of human civilization in the globalization of plant pathogensWe review and synthesize information on invasions of nonnative forest insects and diseases in the United States, including their ecological and economic impacts, pathways of arrival, distribution within the United States, and ...