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Research Articles

1. Alekseyenko AA, Ellison CE, Gorchakov AA, Zhou Q, Kaiser VB, Toda N, Walton Z, Peng S, Park PJ, Bachtrog D, Kuroda MI (2013) Conservation and de novo acquisition of dosage compensation on newly evolved sex chromosomes in Drosophila. Genes Dev 27: 853-858.

2. Zhou Q, Zhu HM, Huang QF, Zhao L, Zhang GJ, Roy SW, Vicoso B, Xuan ZL, Ruan J, Zhang Y, Zhao RP, Ye C, Zhang XQ, Wang J, Wang W, Bachtrog D (2012) Deciphering neo-sex and B chromosome evolution by the draft genome of Drosophila albomicans. BMC Genomics 13: 109. 

3. Zhou Q, Bachtrog D (2012) Sex-specific adaptation drives early sex chromosome evolution in Drosophila. Science 337: 341-345. 

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4. Zhou Q, Bachtrog D (2012) Chromosome-wide gene silencing initiates Y degeneration in Drosophila. Curr Biol 22: 522-525. 

5. Zhan Z, Ding Y, Zhao R, Zhang Y, Yu H, Zhou Q, Yang S, Xiang H, Wang W (2012) 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.

6. Long Q, Zhou Q, Ji L, Wu J, Wang W, Xie J (2012) Mycobacterium smegmatis genomic characteristics associated with its saprophyte lifestyle. J Cell Biochem 113: 3051-3055.

7. Assis R, Zhou Q, Bachtrog D (2012) Sex-biased transcriptome evolution in Drosophila. Genome Biol Evol 4: 1189-1200.

8. Kaiser VB, Zhou Q, Bachtrog D (2011) Nonrandom gene loss from the Drosophila miranda neo-Y chromosome. Genome Biol Evol 3: 1329-1337.

9. Ding Y, Zhao L, Yang S, Jiang Y, Chen Y, Zhao R, Zhang Y, Zhang G, Dong Y, Yu H, Zhou Q, Wang W (2010) A young Drosophila duplicate gene plays essential roles in spermatogenesis by regulating several Y-linked male fertility genes. PLoS Genet 6: e1001255.

10. Zhou Q, Zhang G, Zhang Y, Xu S, Zhao R, Zhan Z, Li X, Ding Y, Yang S, Wang W (2008) On the origin of new genes in Drosophila. Genome Res 18: 1446-1455. 

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11. Zhou Q, Wang J, Huang L, Nie W, Wang J, Liu Y, Zhao X, Yang F, Wang W (2008) Neo-sex chromosomes in the black muntjac recapitulate incipient evolution of mammalian sex chromosomes. Genome Biol 9: R98. 

12. Yang S, Arguello JR, Li X, Ding Y, Zhou Q, Chen Y, Zhang Y, Zhao R, Brunet F, Peng L, Long M, Wang W (2008) Repetitive element-mediated recombination as a mechanism for new gene origination in Drosophila. PLoS Genet 4: e3.

13. Zhou Q, Huang L, Zhang J, Zhao X, Zhang Q, Song F, Chi J, Yang F, Wang W (2006) Comparative genomic analysis links karyotypic evolution with genomic evolution in the Indian muntjac (Muntiacus muntjak vaginalis). Chromosoma 115: 427-436.

14. Yu H, Jiang H, Zhou Q, Yang J, Cun Y, Su B, Xiao C, Wang W (2006) Origination and evolution of a human-specific transmembrane protein gene, c1orf37-dup. Hum Mol Genet 15: 1870-1875.

15. Zhou Q, Wang W (2004) Detecting natural selection at the DNA level. Zool Res 25: 73-80.

 

Review Articles

16. 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.

17. 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

18. 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 Revision or Preparation

19. Zhou Q, Ellison EC, Kaiser BV, Alekseyenko AA, Gorchakov AA, Bachtrog D (2013) The epigenome of evolving sex chromosomes: dosage compensation and heterochromatin formation. PloS Biol in press

20. Lott SE, Villalta J, Zhou Q, Bachtrog D, Eisen M (2013) Species with more X-linked genes less effectively dosage compensate during Drosophila embryogenesis. PLoS Genet in press.

21. Zhou Q, Walton Z, Dunn J, Bachtrog D (2013) Proteom evolution of young sex chromosomes of Drosophila uncoverred by ribosomal footprinting. in preparation

22. Zhou Q, Wang Z, Jin L, Li Q, Bachtrog D, Zhang G (2013) Genome, venome and sex chromosome evolution of a viper snake. in preparation

23. Zhou Q, Zhang J, Bachtrog D, An N, Huang Q, Jarvis DE, Gilbert PT, Zhang G (2013) Atlas of avian sex chromosome evolution. under review

 

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