List of works by Li Zhao

A hominid-specific shift in cerebellar expression, upstream retrotransposons, and a potential cis-regulatory mechanism: bioinformatics analyses of the mu-opioid receptor gene

scientific article published on 11 November 2019

A young Drosophila duplicate gene plays essential roles in spermatogenesis by regulating several Y-linked male fertility genes

scientific article

Autoregulatory control of mitochondrial glutathione homeostasis

scientific article published on 02 November 2023

Behavioral and Genomic Sensory Adaptations Underlying the Pest Activity of Drosophila suzukii

scientific article published on 01 May 2021

Behavioral and genomic sensory adaptations underlying the pest activity of Drosophila suzukii

scientific article published on 15 October 2020

Deciphering neo-sex and B chromosome evolution by the draft genome of Drosophila albomicans

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Evidence that natural selection maintains genetic variation for sleep in Drosophila melanogaster.

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Genome of Drosophila suzukii, the spotted wing drosophila

scientific article published on 09 December 2013

Genomics of parallel adaptation at two timescales in Drosophila

scientific article published on 2 October 2017

Improved reference genome of Aedes aegypti informs arbovirus vector control

scientific article published in Nature

Intermolecular Interactions Drive Protein Adaptive and Coadaptive Evolution at Both Species and Population Levels

scientific article published on 7 January 2022

Intermolecular interactions drive protein adaptive and co-adaptive evolution at both species and population levels

scientific article published on 10 February 2021

Molecular cloning and characterization of Izumo1 gene from sheep and cashmere goat reveal alternative splicing.

scientific article published on 21 October 2010

Nonreciprocal and Conditional Cooperativity Directs the Pioneer Activity of Pluripotency Transcription Factors

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

Origin and spread of de novo genes in Drosophila melanogaster populations

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Outbred genome sequencing and CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing in butterflies

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Parallel Gene Expression Differences between Low and High Latitude Populations of Drosophila melanogaster and D. simulans

scientific article published on 7 May 2015

Population biology of accessory gland-expressed de novo genes in Drosophila melanogaster

scientific article published on 17 November 2021

Protein evidence of unannotated ORFs in Drosophila reveals unappreciated diversity in the evolution of young proteins

scientific article published on 5 April 2022

Protein evidence of unannotated ORFs in reveals diversity in the evolution and properties of young proteins

scientific article published on 30 September 2022

Rapidly evolving genes underlie Aedes aegypti mosquito reproductive resilience during drought

scientific article published on 2 March 2022

Sex differences in inter-individual gene expression variability across human tissues

scientific article published on 11 August 2022

Sex differences in interindividual gene expression variability across human tissues

Short homologous sequences are strongly associated with the generation of chimeric RNAs in eukaryotes.

scientific article published on 17 December 2008

Single base-resolution methylome of the silkworm reveals a sparse epigenomic map.

scientific article published on 2 May 2010

Single-cell RNA-sequencing reveals pre-meiotic X-chromosome dosage compensation in Drosophila testis

scientific article published on 17 August 2021

Single-cell RNA-sequencing reveals pre-meiotic X-chromosome dosage compensation in Drosophila testis

scientific article published on 6 February 2021

Testis single-cell RNA-seq reveals the dynamics of de novo gene transcription and germline mutational bias in

scientific article published on 16 August 2019

The Adaptive Significance of Natural Genetic Variation in the DNA Damage Response of Drosophila melanogaster

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The evolution and mutational robustness of chromatin accessibility in

scientific article published on 28 June 2023

The evolution of sex-biased gene expression in the Drosophila brain

scientific article published on 18 June 2020

The origin and structural evolution of de novo genes in Drosophila

scientific article published in 2024

The origin and structural evolution of genes in

scientific article published on 27 June 2023

Transcription Factors Drive Opposite Relationships between Gene Age and Tissue Specificity in Male and Female Drosophila Gonads

scientific article published on 01 May 2021

Transcription factors drive opposite relationships between gene age and tissue specificity in male and female Drosophila gonads

scientific article published on 9 December 2020

Transcriptional and mutational signatures of the Drosophila ageing germline

scientific article published in March 2023

Transcriptional and mutational signatures of the aging germline

scientific article published on 22 November 2021

Two novel, tightly linked, and rapidly evolving genes underlie mosquito reproductive resilience during drought

scientific article published on 6 February 2023