First record of Saddle Barb, Barbodes sellifer Kottelat & Lim 2021 (Cypriniformes, Cyprinidae), on Belitung, Indonesia, with an update of its geographic distribution

Saddle Barb, Barbodes sellifer, is a freshwater fish endemic to Malay Peninsula and the Indonesian Mirrors archipelago and is here recorded for the first time from Belitung Island, Indonesia.This is a range extension of about 300 km to the southeast from the closest previously known locality on Bangka Island, and, in addition to

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Baidu News and the return volatility of Chinese commodity futures: evidence for the sequential information arrival hypothesis

Abstract This study uses Baidu News data and introduces a novel proxy for the rate of information flow to examine its relationship with return volatility in Chinese commodity futures and to test two competing hypotheses.We examine the contemporaneous relationships using correlation coefficient analysis, and find apparent differences between the inf

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Locational diversity of alpha satellite DNA and intergeneric hybridization aspects in the Nomascus and Hylobates genera of small apes.

Recently, we discovered that alpha satellite DNA has unique and genus-specific localizations on the chromosomes of small apes.This study describes the details of alpha satellite localization in the genera Nomascus and Hylobates and explores their usefulness in distinguishing parental 1.8m genome sets in hybrids between these genera.Fluorescence in

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