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The common breakdown of one-to-one obligate mutualism renders that the hybridization and introgression are relatively universal in the evolutionary history of Ficus, which makes Ficus a difficult taxon taxonomically. The Ficus sarmentosa complex includes 10 species and 10 varieties, and multiple taxonomical issues exist so far due to overlapping and plastic morphological traits together with frequent gene flow. To explore the evolutionary history and taxonomy of the F. sarmentosa complex, three nuclear loci and comprehensive sampling were implemented. The phylogenetic result supported the species statuses of F. pumila, F. howii, F. dinganensis, F. pubigera, and F. anserina. Whereas, the phylogenetic relationships between the varieties and three allies of F. sarmentosa still remain unclear based on the current data. Besides, F. pubigera var. maliformis was elevated as the species ranks and then was named F. yunnanensis. At last, an omitted species was uncovered in the complex and then described with named F. muricata.

Ficus muricata Zhen Zhang & Hong-Qing Li sp. nov. (Figures 2–4) Type: — CHINA. Yunnan: Puer, Jingdong, Qingren Valley. 20 July 2015, Zhen Zhang, Xiao-Mei Wang et Hai-Yan Gao JDH-6 (holotype HSNU00075747!, Fig. 2); isotype JDH-7 (HSNU00075746!). Diagnosis:— The new species is distinguishable from the other member in the F. sarmentosa complex according to its glabrous bathphylls, rather big long-elliptical acrophylls with apex round, and tuberculate and muricate figs and the abaxial surface of lamina. Description: —Root-climber. Branchlets glabrous, celadon to brown, with some conspicuous lenticels around the nodes, 1–2 mm in diameter when juvenile, ca. 2–4 mm when mature. Stipules 2, 4–12 mm, triangular-lanceolate to long-lanceolate, reddish brown, fairy, caducous; bathphylls distichous but often reverse to all the laminas downward, petiole 0.5–2.5 cm long, greenish to brown, glabrous, lamina long-elliptical, 3–5 × 6–14.5 cm, thinly leathery, base narrowly cordiform, apex acuminate to short caudate, margin entire, veins 8–10 pairs, abaxially slightly raised and adaxially descending, basal vein short and up to 1/4 of lamina length; acrophylls distichous, petiole 0.5–2(–2.5) cm, brown, glabrous, lamina long-elliptical to oblong, 4–9 × (10–) 13–26 cm, subcoriaceous to coriaceous, base rounded, apex obtuse, margin entire, veins 8–11 pairs, adaxially somewhat descending, abaxially slightly reticulate and sparely tuberculate, basal vein up to 1/3 of lamina length. Figs gynodioecious, axillary, solitary, peduncle 1.5 mm to sessile, basal bracts 3, ca. 2.5 mm, often deciduous, triangular, glabrous; receptacle globose to depressed globose, 1.5–2 cm in diameter, dark greenish or yellowish green, covered by bristle when juvenile and glabrescent when mature, sparely tuberculate; ostiole ca. 2–3 mm in diameter; internal hairs abundant, short, lissome, pellucid, ca. 1 mm in length. Staminate flowers numerous, scattered near the ostiole, pedicel 4 mm to sessile; calyx 4, light green to light pink, translucent, glabrous, ovate, lanceolate to linear, 2–2.5 mm in length, ca. 1 mm in width; stamens 2, lanceolate to oblong, about equal to tepals in length or slightly longer, filament absent. Gall flower numerous, pedicel sessile to the most 5 mm; calyx 4–5, pink, translucent, linear or spatulate, 2.5–3 mm in length and 0.5 mm in width, glabrous; ovary subsessile, obovoid, constricted at the base, 2–2.5 mm at height; style lateral, short, about 0.2 mm; stigmas mucronate. Pistillate flowers many, sessile to the most 5 mm, calyx 4–5(–6), spatulate, 2–3 mm in length and ca. 0.6 mm in width, glabrous; ovary obovoid, ca. 2 mm in height and ca. 2.5 mm at height; style lateral, shorter than the height of the ovary, 1–1.5 mm in height; stigmas threadlike. Distribution and Habitat: — CHINA. Yunnan Province:Xishuanbannan; Honghe; Lincang; Puer (type locality).— LAOS. Louang Namtha Province: Namtha District, Nalan Village. The new species lies on the ground or trunk under tropical evergreen broad-leaf forests at altitudes of 500–1500 m. Etymology: —The specific epithet is used to describe its key trait, muricate and tuberculate large fig. Its Chinese name “ Dzvffi ” should be spelled as “Liu Guo Rong” Additional specimens examined: — CHINA. Yunnan: Xishuanbanna, Menghai, 30 March 1957, Sino Soviet joint Yunnan elegation 5765 (KUN0512889!); Yunnan: Xishuanbanna, Mengzhe, 2 March 1952, Sino Soviet joint Yunnan elegation 5453 (KUN0512883!, KUN0512884!); Yunnan: Xishuanbanna, Mengla, Manhua, Sheng Ji Pei 59- 10817 (KUN0512858!, NAS00292427[image]); Yunnan: Xishuanbanna, Mengyang, YeXiang Valley, Zhen Zhang, Xiao-Mei Wang & Hai-Yan Gao 20150901a (HSNU!); Yunnan, Honghe, Lvchun, Dingsong River, Lu Men Zhou 47 (KUN0781411!); Yunnan, Honghe, Lvchun, Qimaba, Hong-Qing Li & Zhen Zhang 2013170 (HSNU!); Yunnan, Puer, Menglian, Longshan, 28 December 2009, Hong-Qing Li 2009435 (HSUN00058028!); Yunnan, Lincang, Cangyuan, 2 June 1974, Yan Hui Li 011885 (KUN0512861!).— LAOS. Louang Namtha Province: Namtha District, Nalan Village, 10 November 2022, Dong-Li Quan, Bin Yang, Li Wang, Lothkham, Seng, Gam In L1287 (HITBC!). Note: —Some specimens of the newly described species already existed in KUN and NAS collected from 1936 to 2000. However, these specimens were usually mistakenly identified as F. pubigera or F. pubigera var. maliformis, or even F. foveolata (Wall. ex Miq. 1848:77) Miquel (1867: 294) earlier. Morphologically, F. muricata is obviously different from all varieties of F. pubigera in the aspects of long-elliptical acrophylls with apex round as well as big, muricate, and subglabrous figs., Published as part of Zhang, Zhen, Chen, Yi-Jia, Mei, Li, Zou, Lu, Zhang, Mei-Jiao, Li, Hong-Qing & Zhang, De-Shun, 2023, Phylogeny of the Ficus sarmentosa complex (Moraceae) uncovered an omitted species and the rank elevation of F. pubigera var. maliformis, pp. 17-31 in Phytotaxa 579 (1) on pages 22-27, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.579.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/7532044, {"references":["Miquel, F. A. G. (1867) Annales musei botanici Lugduno-batavi. C. G. van der Post, Amstelodami, pp. 289,294."]}

Ficus yunnanensis S. S. Chang (1984: 69, f. 12). Type:— CHINA. Yunnan: Jingdong, 31 December 1939, M. K. Li 2747 (holotype IBSC0001255!, isotypes IBSC0374007!, KUN1206455!, KUN1206456!). The collecting number was misquoted as “2749” in the protologue. = Ficus foveolata (Wall. ex Miq. 1848:77) Miquel (1867: 294). var. maliformis King (1888: 134, t. 168 I). syn. nov. ≡ F. pubigera (Wall. ex Miq.) Brandis var. maliformis (King) Corner (1960: 6; 1965: 50). Lectotype:— INDIA. Sikkim, August 1875, King G. 2111 (P06845942 [image!]. = Ficus foveolata (Wall. ex Miq.) Miquel var. oleaeformis King (1888: 134, t. 168 H). ≡ F. sarmentosa var. oleaeformis (King) V. Singh & P. Singh (1991: 705). Type:— INDIA. Sikkim, 1870–1880, King G. s. n. (holotype K001328108 [image!]). Description: —The morphological description of F. yunnanensis refer to Zhang Z. et al. (2020a) with minor supplementary as followed: Figs receptacle elliptical to pyriform, 2× 3 cm, greenish and turned into orange at maturity, covered by bristle when juvenile, subglabrous to covered by dense spikes. Note: —Based on the multi-loci phylogenetic tree, F. pubigera var. maliformis should be elevated as the species rank. Considering the priority doesn’t work outside the rank in which it is published (Art. 11.1 and 11.2 (Turland et al. 2018)), F. yunnanensis was reinstated as a correct name, whereas F. pubigera var. maliformis is treated as a synonym here. Though their typification and species examination have been provided (Zhang Z. et al. 2020a), the precise application of F. yunnanensis is challenging because of the extremely rare specimen records and color photos. Therefore, a detailed plate has been provided (Fig. 5) based on our fieldwork from Medog, Tibet in China., Published as part of Zhang, Zhen, Chen, Yi-Jia, Mei, Li, Zou, Lu, Zhang, Mei-Jiao, Li, Hong-Qing & Zhang, De-Shun, 2023, Phylogeny of the Ficus sarmentosa complex (Moraceae) uncovered an omitted species and the rank elevation of F. pubigera var. maliformis, pp. 17-31 in Phytotaxa 579 (1) on page 27, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.579.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/7532044, {"references":["Chang, S. S. (1984) New Taxa of Moraceae from China and Vietnam. Acta Phytotaxonomica Sinica 22: 64 - 76.","Miquel, F. A. G. (1867) Annales musei botanici Lugduno-batavi. C. G. van der Post, Amstelodami, pp. 289,294.","King, G. (1888) Annals of the Royal botanica garden, Calcutta (Vol. 1). L. Reeve & Co., London, pp. 133 - 135.","Corner, E. J. H. (1960) Taxonomic notes on Ficus L., Asia and Australasia. The Gardens' Bulletin Singapore 18: 1 - 69.","Corner, E. J. H. (1965) Check-list of Ficus in Asia and Australasia with keys to identification. The Gardens' Bulletin Singapore 21: 1 - 186.","Singh, V. & Singh, P. (1991) Some new combinations in the flora of Sikkim. Journal of Economic and Taxonomic botany 3: 705 - 706.","Turland, N. J., Wiersema, J. H., Barrie, F. R., Greuter, W., Hawksworth, D. L., Herendeen, P. S., Knapp, S., Kusber, W. - H., Li, D. Z., Marhold, K., May, T. W., McNeill, J., Monro, A. M., Prado, J., Price, M. & Smith, G. (2018) International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (Shenzhen Code) adopted by the Nineteenth International Botanical Congress Shenzhen, China, July 2017 (Vol. 159). Koeltz Botanical Books, Glashutten, pp. 1 - 254. https: // doi. org / 10.12705 / Code. 2018"]}

Key to species in the F. sarmentosa complex 1. Acrophylls apex round; syconia 4 cm or larger in diameter................................................................................................. F. pumila 1. Acrophylls apex often caudiform to acute (round in F. muricata); syconia less than 3 cm in diameter............................................ 2 2. Leaf brown when dry; acrophylls abaxially seldom foveolate; syconia tuberculate more or less..................................................... 3 2. Leaf not brown when dry; acrophylls abaxially foveolate or not (in some varieties of F. sarmentosa); syconia not tuberculate..... 4 3. Acrophylls less than 7 cm in length; peduncle (2–) 5–12 mm; syconia 6–8 mm in diameter...................................... F. dinganensis 3. Acrophylls 7–26 cm in length; peduncle 2 mm to sessile; syconia 1–2 cm in diameter.................................................................... 5 4. Acrophylls 25 cm or larger in length; syconia and leaf covered by dense brown pubescent............................................ F. anserina 4. Acrophylls less than 20 cm in length; syconia and leaf covered by sparse pubescent to glabrous............................................................................................................................................. F. sarmentosa and its allies (taxa in subclade f in Fig. 1 except F. pumila) 5. Acrophylls 13–26 cm in length, apex round, abaxial surface glabrous............................................................. F. muricata (sp. nov.) 5. Acrophylls 7–18 cm in length, apex acuminate to short caudiform, abaxial surface sparsely to densely tomentose........................ 6 6. Acrophylls 5–8 cm in width, basal vein basal vein up to 1/3 to 1/2 of lamina length; synocia 1.5–2 cm in diameter................................................................................................................................................................................................................... F. pubigera 6. Acrophylls 3–5 cm in width, basal vein basal vein up to 1/5 to 1/3 of lamina length; syconia often less than 1.5 mm in diameter................................................................................................................................................................................................... F. howii, Published as part of Zhang, Zhen, Chen, Yi-Jia, Mei, Li, Zou, Lu, Zhang, Mei-Jiao, Li, Hong-Qing & Zhang, De-Shun, 2023, Phylogeny of the Ficus sarmentosa complex (Moraceae) uncovered an omitted species and the rank elevation of F. pubigera var. maliformis, pp. 17-31 in Phytotaxa 579 (1) on page 27, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.579.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/7532044

Background: NPM1 is highly expressed in a variety of solid tumors and promotes tumor development. However, there are few comprehensive studies on NPM1 analysis in gastrointestinal cancer.Methods: We used bioinformatics tools to study the expression difference of NPM1 between gastrointestinal cancer and control group, and analyzed the relationship between its expression level and the diagnosis, prognosis, functional signaling pathway, immune infiltration, m6A and cuproptosis related genes of gastrointestinal cancer. At the same time, the expression difference of NPM1 between esophageal carcinoma (ESCA) samples and control samples was verified by in vitro experiments.Results: NPM1 was overexpressed in gastrointestinal cancer. In vitro experiments confirmed that the expression of NPM1 in ESCA samples was higher than that in normal samples. The expression of NPM1 has high accuracy in predicting the outcome of gastrointestinal cancer. The expression of NPM1 is closely related to the prognosis of multiple gastrointestinal cancers. Go and KEGG enrichment analysis showed that NPM1 co-expressed genes involved in a variety of biological functions. NPM1 expression is potentially associated with a variety of immune cell infiltration, m6A and cuproptosis related genes in gastrointestinal cancers.Conclusion: NPM1 can be used as a diagnostic and prognostic marker of gastrointestinal cancer, which is related to the immune cell infiltration and the regulation of m6A and cuproptosis.

A 62-year-old female patient with pathologically confirmed left lung small cell neuroendocrine carcinoma. The patient was referred to our positron emission tomography (PET)/CT center to look for possible metastatic diseases. After fasting for 8 h, the fasting blood glucose level of the patient was 7.1 mmol/L. The patient was intravenously injected with a 6.42 mCi (238 MBq) 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) imaging agent. After the patient rested for 1 h, we scanned the patient with SIEMENS Biograph mCT 64 PET/CT camera. In addition to lung tumors and lymph node diseases, abnormal tracer uptake in the patient's thyroid was also found. PET/CT also showed situs inversus totalis of the patient, including the dextrocardia, liver on the left side, stomach, and spleen on the right side of the patient's body. The identification of anatomical variations and abnormalities by PET/CT imaging is very important to develop the best treatment for lung cancer.

As the knowledge activity is always embedded in networks of social context, so the net structure relationship quality and common social cognition have an important impact on knowledge sharing effect. Based on reviewing the theory of social capital, we researched on how social capital facilitates knowledge sharing between individuals. Conclusions from theoretical study are as following. (1) Each Social capital variable (namely structure variable, relationship variable and cognitive variable) has significant influence on knowledge sharing. (2) There are inter-relationships among the variables of social capital. Structure variable has positive effect on relationship variable and cognitive variable. Cognitive variable has positive effect on relationship variable. (3) The knowledge tacit moderates the impact of social capital on knowledge sharing effect.