Molecular phylogenetic relationship of snow finch complex (genera Montifringilla, Pyrgilauda, and Onychostruthus) from the Tibetan plateau

This book is about two immortals whose friendship has spanned nearly five hundred years across the Tibetan plateau and beyond. The first immortal is the Dalai Lama, the emanation of a bodhisattva, an enlightened being who voluntarily takes rebirth in the world to benefit sentient beings. The second immortal is a wrathful god named Pehar, who has possessed the Nechung Oracle since the sixteenth century. This book is the first to examine the relationship between these two monolithic figures, which strengthened in the seventeenth century during the reign of the Fifth Dalai Lama (1617–1682). This study is also the first extensive examination of the famed Nechung Oracle and his institution. In the seventeenth century, the protector deity Pehar and his oracle at Nechung Monastery were state-sanctioned by the nascent Tibetan government, becoming the head of an expansive pantheon of worldly deities assigned to protect the newly unified country. While the Fifth Dalai Lama and his government endorsed Pehar as part of a larger unification project, the governments of later Dalai Lamas continued to expand the deity’s influence, and by extension their own, by ritually establishing Pehar at monasteries and temples around Lhasa and across Tibet. Pehar’s cult at Nechung Monastery came to embody the Dalai Lama’s administrative control in a mutually beneficial relationship of protection and prestige, the effects of which continue to reverberate within Tibet and among the Tibetan exile community today.

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Molecular phylogenetic relationships among Anatolian-Hyrcanian brown frog taxa (Ranidae: Rana)

Amphibia-Reptilia ◽

10.1163/15685381-00003114 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 38 (3) ◽

pp. 339-350 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Masoumeh Najibzadeh ◽

Michael Veith ◽

Ahmad Gharzi ◽

Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani ◽

Eskandar Rastegar-Pouyani ◽

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Keyword(s):

Phylogenetic Relationship ◽

Dna Sequences ◽

Taxonomic Status ◽

Early Miocene ◽

Restricted Gene Flow ◽

Iranian Plateau ◽

Western Palearctic ◽

Phylogenetic Status ◽

Molecular Phylogenetic ◽

Relationship Of

Although the phylogenetic relationship of Western Palearctic brown frogs has been repeatedly studied, the taxonomic status and phylogenetic relationship of Anatolian-Hyrcanian brown frogs is still not fully resolved. Here, we assess the phylogenetic status of these species among Western Palearctic brown frogs with special emphasize on Iranian populations based on two partial mitochondrial DNA sequences (16S rRNA and cytochrome b genes) and the application of a molecular clock. Our results clearly show that Western Palearctic brown frogs underwent a basal radiation in to two main monophyletic clades, the European brown frogs plus the Asian R. asiatica and the Anatolian-Hyrcanian brown frogs, during Early Miocene ca. 20.2 mya. The Hyrcanian (R. pseudodalmatina) and the Anatolian lineage diverged approximately 16.6 mya. The further diverged into two subclades, R. tavasensis and R. macrocnemis, during the Middle Miocene, 14.5 mya. Our results suggest that diversification within these lineages may be closely linked to the formation of Neotethys and Paratethys and the subsequent uplift of the Turkish-Iranian plateau during the Early Miocene which led to restricted gene flow among brown frogs in these regions. Contrary to previous studies, we conclude that the Plio-Pleistocene epoch seems to be not associated to further significant speciation events within Anatolian-Hyrcanian brown frogs.

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Molecular phylogenetic relationship of the subfamily Nymphalinae (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) in Myanmar, inferred from mitochondrial gene sequences

Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity ◽

10.1016/j.japb.2016.11.002 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 86-90 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Nan Zarchi Win ◽

Eun Young Choi ◽

Jinyoung Park ◽

Jong Kyun Park

Keyword(s):

Phylogenetic Relationship ◽

Mitochondrial Gene ◽

Gene Sequences ◽

Molecular Phylogenetic ◽

Relationship Of

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Investigation of the ice surface albedo in the Tibetan Plateau lakes based on the field observation and MODIS products

Journal of Glaciology ◽

10.1017/jog.2018.35 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 64 (245) ◽

pp. 506-516 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

ZHAOGUO LI ◽

YINHUAN AO ◽

SHIHUA LYU ◽

JIAHE LANG ◽

LIJUAN WEN ◽

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Keyword(s):

Tibetan Plateau ◽

Surface Temperature ◽

Time Windows ◽

The Tibetan Plateau ◽

Lake Ice ◽

Ice Surface ◽

Moderate Resolution ◽

Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer ◽

Ice Surface Temperature ◽

Relationship Of

ABSTRACTThe Tibetan Plateau (TP) lakes are sensitive to climate change due to ice-albedo feedback, but almost no study has paid attention to the ice albedo of TP lakes and its potential impacts. Here we present a recent field experiment for observing the lake ice albedo in the TP, and evaluate the applicability of the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) products as well as ice-albedo parameterizations. Most of the observed lake ice albedos on TP are <0.12, and the clear blue ice albedo is only 0.075, much lower than reported in the previous studies. Even that of ice covered with snow patches is only 0.212. MOD10A1 albedo product has the best agreement with observations, followed by those of MYD10A1. MCD43A3 product is consistently higher than the observations. Due to an error of snow flag and inconsistent time windows in MCD43A2 and MCD43A3, at certain times, the albedo of the ice without snow is even higher than that covered with snow. When the solar zenith angle is not considered, there is no significant correlation between the albedo and the ice surface temperature. None of the existing ice-albedo parameterizations can reproduce well the observed relationship of the albedo and surface temperature.

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Fungicide Sensitivity and Phylogenetic Relationship of Anthracnose Fungi Isolated from Various Fruit Crops in Japan

Plant Disease ◽

10.1094/pd-90-0506 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 90 (4) ◽

pp. 506-512 ◽

Cited By ~ 58

Author(s):

Wen-Hsin Chung ◽

Hideo Ishii ◽

Kumiko Nishimura ◽

Masako Fukaya ◽

Kazutaka Yano ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Phylogenetic Relationship ◽

Colletotrichum Gloeosporioides ◽

Phylogenetic Analyses ◽

Interspecific Variation ◽

Fruit Crops ◽

Fungicide Sensitivity ◽

Genetic Groups ◽

Molecular Phylogenetic ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship

Anthracnose diseases of fruit crops are mainly caused by Colletotrichum gloeosporioides and C. acutatum. In these Colletotrichum species, intra- and interspecific variation in fungicide sensitivity has been reported; however, the relationship between fungicide sensitivity and molecular phylogeny has not been analyzed. Fifty-one isolates from 10 fruit crops, acacia, and tea were tested for their sensitivities to thiophanate-methyl, diethofencarb, and iminoctadine-triacetate, and their internal transcribed spacer (ITS) and 5.8S regions of rDNA were analyzed. C. gloeosporioides isolates were divided into sensitive, less sensitive, intermediate resistant, or resistant to the three fungicides. In contrast, C. acutatum isolates were all less sensitive. In molecular phylogenetic analyses, C. gloeosporioides isolates fell into the same genetic group, whereas C. acutatum isolates were placed into two genetic groups. Although phylogenetic relationship was not closely related to fungicide sensitivity, the isolates of C. gloeosporioides most resistant to iminoctadine-triacetate were found in the same phylogenetic subgroup.

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