Lien-Siang Chou

TL;DR: Biogeographic analyses indicate that the present-day distribution of fig and pollinator lineages is consistent with a Eurasian origin and subsequent dispersal, rather than with Gondwanan vicariance.

TL;DR: Congruence is strong evidence that the sympatric morphotypes in Chinese waters are reproductively isolated and comprise two distinct species, which have important implications for the conservation of bottlenose dolphins inChinese waters.

TL;DR: Results provided strong evidence that the two sympatric forms of Tursiops in Chinese waters are isolated reproductively and do not support the current view of a monotypic genus.

TL;DR: Rostrum length as an absolute measure and as a proportion of total body length or snout-to-eye length revealed nonoverlapping distributions for the 2 species in the waters of China and thus offered useful field characters for classifying fresh carcasses, stranded individuals, captive specimens, photographs, and in some cases free-ranging individuals.

TL;DR: A demethylation phenomenon that decreasing the percentage of O-Hg coupled with increasing levels of Se was observed when the sigmaHg concentrations in the muscle tissues of dolphins reached 4 mg/kg wet wt, could represent the baseline metal concentrations of marine mammals in the southwestern Pacific.