期刊论文

Wu, Hua

英文

Nature Communications

2041-1723

2019

10

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10.1038/s41467-019-13531-5

We are thankful to Professor Patricia Wittkopp and all members of the Wittkopp laboratory from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (USA) for their helpful comments and suggestions for this paper. We thank Dr. Jinzhong Fu from the University of Guelph for his kind help with explaining the results and writing the manuscript. We are thankful to Dr. Rebekah Rogers and Dr. Rasmus Nielsen for sharing the genomic data of the strawberry poison frog. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.31770405) and the Biodiversity Survey, Monitoring and Assessment Project of Ministry of ecology and environment, China (2019–2023).

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