Sexual reproduction in plants is a tightly coordinated process that underpins biodiversity, drives speciation, and serves as a foundation for modern crop improvement. Here, we synthesize recent advances in elucidating the molecular mechanisms governing major reproductive events in flowering plants, including male and female gametogenesis, pollen-pistil communication, double fertilization, embryogenesis, and endosperm-mediated...

To investigate the growth patterns and sexual differences in pond-cultured mud crabs (Scylla paramamosain), this study measured eight growth patterns in pond-cultured S. paramamosain aged 1 to 5 months, including internal carapace width (ICW), abdomen width (AW), body height (BH), carapace length (CL), propodus length (PL), merus length (ML), first periopod merus length (1PML), and body weight (BW), with measurements taken mon...

The Oligocene–Miocene transition was characterized by major reorganizations in global climate and ocean circulation, yet their expression in low-latitude upper-ocean structure remains incompletely resolved. Here we present paired stable isotope and Mg/Ca-derived temperature records from planktic foraminiferal surface-dwelling Globoturborotalita brazieri and thermocline-dwelling Paragloborotalia siakensis at IODP Site U1501 in...