Research Articles
2020
Xu L, Zhou Q.The Female-Specific W Chromosomes of Birds Have Conserved Gene Contents but Are Not Feminized. Genes, 2020. 11(10): p. 1126.
Liu J, Ali M, Zhou Q. Establishment and evolution of heterochromatin.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.2020. 1476(1): p. 59-77.
2019
Xu L, Auer G, Peona V, Suh A, Deng Y, Feng S, Zhang G, Blom MPK, Christidis L, Prost S, Irestedt M, Zhou Q. Dynamic evolutionary history and gene content of sex chromosomes across diverse songbirds. Nat Ecol Evol 3, 834-844.
2018
Zhang JY, Zhou Q. On the regulatory evolution of new genes throughout their life history. Mol Biol Evol. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msy206.
Lin JQ, Zhou Q, Yang HQ, Fang LM, Tang KY, Sun L, Wan QH, Fang SG. Molecular mechanism of temperature-dependent sex determination and differentiation in Chinese alligator revealed by developmental transcriptome profiling. Sci Bull. 4: 209-212.
2017
Seki R, L. C., Fang Q, Hayashi S, Egawa S, Hu J, Xu L, Pan H, Kondo M, Sato T, Matsubara H, Kamiyama N, Kitajima K, Saito D, Liu Y, Gilbert MTP, Zhou Q, Xu X, Shiroishi T, Irie N, Tamura K, Zhang G. Functional roles of Aves class-specific cis-regulatory elements on macroevolution of bird-specific features. Nat Commun.
2016
Gibilisco L, Zhou Q, Mahajan S, Bachtrog D. Alternative Splicing within and between Drosophila Species, Sexes, Tissues, and Developmental Stages. PLoS Genet. 2016 Dec 9;12(12):e1006464.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006464.eCollection 2016 Dec.
Yin W, Wang ZJ, Li QY, Lian JM, Zhou Y, Lu BZ, Jin LJ, Qiu PX, Zhang P, Zhu WB, Wen B, Huang YJ, Lin ZL, Qiu BT, Su XW, Yang HM, Zhang GJ, Yan GM, Zhou Q*. Evolutionary trajectories of snake genes and genomes revealed by comparative analyses of five-pacer viper. Nat Commun. 7:13107. *correspondence author
2015
Zhou Q, Bachtrog D. Ancestral chromatin configuration constrains chromatin evolution on differentiating sex chromosomes in Drosophila. PLoS Genet. 11(6): e1005331.
Zhang J, Li C, Zhou Q, Zhang G. Improving the ostrich genome assembly using optical mapping data.
Gigascience. 2015; 4: 24. Published online 2015 May 12. doi: 10.1186/s13742-015-0062-9
2014
Zhou Q*, Zhang J, Bachtrog D, An N, Huang Q, Jarvis ED, Gilbert MTP, Zhang G. Sex chromosomes demonstrate complex evolutionary trajectories across bird taxa. Science. 346: 1332 *correspondence author
Highlighted by The Scientist, Faculty of 1000
Avian Genomics Consortium* Whole genome analyses resolve the early branches in the tree of life of modern birds. Science. 346: 1320-1331 *together with other 103 co-authors
2013
Zhou Q, Ellison EC, Kaiser BV, Alekseyenko AA, Gorchakov AA, Bachtrog D The epigenome of evolving sex chromosomes: dosage compensation and heterochromatin formation. PloS Biol. 11(11): e1001711
Highlighted by Nature Review Genetics
Alekseyenko AA, Ellison CE, Gorchakov AA, Zhou Q, Kaiser VB, Toda N, Walton Z, Peng S, Park PJ, Bachtrog D, Kuroda MI . Conservation and de novo acquisition of dosage compensation on newly evolved sex chromosomes in Drosophila. Genes. Dev 27: 853-858.
2012
Zhou Q, Bachtrog D. Sex-specific adaptation drives early sex chromosome evolution in Drosophila. Science. 337: 341-345.
Highlighted by The Scientists and Science online podcast
Zhou Q, Bachtrog D. Chromosome-wide gene silencing initiates Y degeneration in Drosophila.Curr Biol. 22: 522-525.
Zhan Z, Ding Y, Zhao R, Zhang Y, Yu H, Zhou Q, Yang S, Xiang H, Wang W . Rapid functional divergence of a newly evolved polyubiquitin gene in Drosophila and its role in the trade-off between male fecundity and lifespan. Mol Biol Evol. 29: 1407-1416.
2011
Kaiser VB, Zhou Q, Bachtrog D. Nonrandom gene loss from the Drosophila miranda neo-Y chromosome. Genome Biol Evol. 3: 1329-1337.
2010
Ding Y, Zhao L, Yang S, Jiang Y, Chen Y, Zhao R, Zhang Y, Zhang G, Dong Y, Yu H, Zhou Q, Wang W. A young Drosophila duplicate gene plays essential roles in spermatogenesis by regulating several Y-linked male fertility genes. PLoS Genet. 6: e1001255.
2008
Zhou Q, Zhang G, Zhang Y, Xu S, Zhao R, Zhan Z, Li X, Ding Y, Yang S, Wang W. On the origin of new genes in Drosophila. Genome Res. 18: 1446-1455.
Highlighted by Nature Review Genetics
Zhou Q, Wang J, Huang L, Nie W, Wang J, Liu Y, Zhao X, Yang F, Wang W. Neo-sex chromosomes in the black muntjac recapitulate incipient evolution of mammalian sex chromosomes.Genome. Biol 9: R98.
Invited Review Articles
Ding Y, Zhou Q*, Wang W (2012) Origins of new genes and evolution of their novel functions. Annu Rev Ecol Evol Syst. 43: 345-363. *co-first author
Zhou Q, Wang W (2008) On the origin and evolution of new genes--a genomic and experimental perspective. J Genet Genomics. 35: 639-648.
Book Chapters
Zhang J., Li J., Zhou Q. (2017) Genomic and Transcriptomic Analyses of Avian Sex Chromosomes and Sex-Linked Genes. In: Sheng G. (eds) Avian and Reptilian Developmental Biology. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1650. Humana Press, New York, NY
Wang W, Zhou Q, Li X Origin of New Genes. In: Zhang G, editor. Molecular Genetics: Beijing Normal University Publishing Group. pp. in press
Articles in Press or Preparation
Zhou Q, Walton Z, Dunn J, Bachtrog D (2015) Proteom evolution of young sex chromosomes of Drosophila uncoverred by ribosomal footprinting. in preparation
Zhou Q*, Wang Z, Jin L, Li Q, Bachtrog D, Zhang G (2015) Genome, venome and sex chromosome evolution of a viper snake. in preparation * correspondence author
