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The Guizhou golden monkey (Rhinopithecus brelichi) is a critically endangered wildlife species, and understanding its diet composition may be useful for assessing its feeding strategies. DNA metabarcoding was used to determine the dietary diversity of R. brelichi. DNA was extracted from 31 faecal samples and amplified chloroplast rbcL and mitochondrial COI DNA was sequenced using the Illumina NovaSeq platform. A comparative analysis of the sequences revealed that the five most abundant plant genera were Magnolia, Morinda, Viburnum, Tetradium and Eurya. In winter, R. brelichi mostly consumed shrubs, herbs and shrubs/trees according to the habit of plant genera with higher abundances comparatively. The five most abundant families in animal diet were Psychodidae, Trichinellidae, Staphylinidae, Scarabaeidae and Trichoceridae. This study is the first to show the composition of the winter animal diets of R. brelichi based on DNA metabarcoding. These results provide an important basis for understanding the diet of wild R. brelichi, which inhabits only the Fanjingshan National Nature Reserve, China.
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The development of earth-abundant electrocatalysts with high intrinsic activity, abundant active sites, and good electrical conductivity is of vital importance for the market penetration of clean energy technologies. We herein report a facile synthesis of a self-supported Co2N/CoN/Co2Mo3O8 heterostructured catalyst on cobalt foam (CF) by a hydrothermal process followed by nitridation treatment. Our first-principles calculations revealed that Co2Mo3O8 and Co2N could work in concert to provide active sites for an alkaline hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). The hierarchical and nanoporous architecture of the Co2N/CoN/Co2Mo3O8 catalyst ensured an abundance of accessible active sites. The direct growth of metalloid CoxN nanoparticles on the defective Co2Mo3O8 substrate endowed the catalyst with good electrical conductivity. As a consequence, the Co2N/CoN/Co2Mo3O8/CF catalyst showed extraordinarily high activity and good stability toward the alkaline HER, outperforming most existing non-precious electrocatalysts. In particular, it exhibited a comparable catalytic performance to the commercial Pt/C catalyst at a current density of 100 mA cm-2.
