Xiaoyu SUN’s scientific contributions

... It would also be appropriate to use other DNA markers with a high mutation rate to determine intraspecies genetic diversity, and reconstruct the potential migration route. In recent years, a growing number of small-sized snakes have been found in the field (Chen et al, 2013;Li et al, 2012;Sun et al, 2013;Wang et al, 2015;Zhang et al, 2011b). One possible reason might be the decline of natural small snake predators. ...

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New Record of Lycodon liuchengchaoi in Anhui

... The Lycodon liuchengchaoi is a species of Colubridae family (Zhang et al. 2011). Lycodon liuchengchaoi, once misidentified as L. fasciatus because of their similarity in shape (Lei et al. 2014;Ding et al. 2015). However, in 2011, it was identified as a new species after the careful examination of these specimens that was collected from Sichuang Province (Zhang et al. 2011), the researchers noticed that they can be distinguished from L. fasciatus by several morphological characters, such as the anal plate and the large number and yellow colour of the rings around the body (Vogel et al., 2010;Zhang et al. 2011). ...

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The complete mitochondrial genome of Lycodon liuchengchaoi (squamata: colubridae)

... New sequences of Cyt b (1096 bp) generated for this work were deposited in GenBank and combined with data taken from previously published studies (Table S1; Dubey et al., 2012;Kalki et al., 2020;Pyron et al., 2013;Siler et al., 2013;Nawani et al., 2021;Wang et al., 2021). Following sequences AF471054 (Ptyas mucosa), KC347453 (Ahaetulla nasuta), and KF732930 (Oligodon chinensis) were used as outgroups (Lawson et al., 2005;Lei et al., 2014;Pyron et al., 2013). The sequences were aligned in MEGA 7 (Kumar et al., 2016) using ClustalW (Thompson et al., 2003) with default settings. ...

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Integrative approach resolves the systematics of barred wolf snakes in the Lycodon striatus complex (Reptilia, Colubridae)