Xinkun Kang

Unraveling the origins, dispersal patterns, and evolutionary trajectory of marmots through integrated fossil and molecular evidence

Marmota represents a genus of relatively large‐bodied, fossorial rodents widely distributed across grassland and alpine meadow ecosystems in the Northern Hemisphere. This study integrates paleontological data with molecular phylogenetics from extant species to reconstruct the spatiotemporal dynamics of Marmota d...