Chinese | CAS
Xiaomao Zeng
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Phone:028-82890787
Highest   Education:Ph.D.
Email: zengxm@cib.ac.cn

Education and Appointments:

Research Interest

Cell and Molecular Evolution

Public Services

Honors

Seleted Publication

  2018:

  1. Yuan Xiu-Yun, Xia Yun*, Zeng Xiao-Mao*. Suppressed recombination of sex chromosomes is not caused by chromosomal reciprocal translocation in spiny frog (Quasipaa boulengeri). Frontiers in Genetics, 2018, 9(288):1-14.

  2. Zheng Yu-Chi*, Hu Jun-Hua, Zeng Xiao-Mao. Examining the interglacial high-elevation refugia scenario in East Asian subtropical mountain systems with the frog species Leptobrachium liui. Ecology and Evolution, 2018, 8:9326-9340.

  3. Yuan Xiu-Yun, Xia Yun*, Zeng Xiao-Mao*. Sex chromosomal dimorphisms narrated by X-chromosome translocation in a spiny frog (Quasipaa boulengeri). Frontiers in Zoology, 2018, 15(47):1-8.

  4. Xia Yun, Luo Wei, Yuan Si-Qi, Zheng Yu-Chi, Zeng Xiao-Mao *. Microsatellite development from genome skimming and transcriptome sequencing: comparison of strategies and lessons from frog species. BMC genomics, 2018,19:886.

  2017:

  5. Liu Ting, Song Meng-Huan, Xia Yun, Zeng Xiao-Mao* A tandem-arranged pattern of two 5S rDNA arrays in Amolops mantzorum (Anura, Ranidae). Cytogenetic and Genome Research, 2017, 151:161-170.

  6. Yuan Xiu-Yun, Yuan Si-Qi, Liu Ya, Xia Yun, Zeng Xiao-Mao*. Microsatellites mapping for non-model species with chromosomal rearrangement: a case study in the frog Quasipaa boulengeri (Anura: Dicroglossidae) Genome, 2017, 60(8):707-711.

  7. Yuan Si-Qi, Xia Yun, ZENG Xiao-Mao*. A sex-linked microsatellite marker reveals male heterogamety in Quasipaa boulengeri (Anura: Dicroglossidae). Asian Herpetological Research, 2017, 8(3):184-189.

  2016:

  8. Shan Xiang, Xia Yun, Ryosuke Kakehashi, Atsushi Kurabayashi, Zou Fang-Dong*, Zeng Xiao-Mao*. Complete mitochondrial genome of Amolops mantzorum (Anura: Ranidae). Mitochondrial DNA Part A, 2016, 27(1):705-707.

  9. Zhang Chao-Hua, Xia Yun*, Zeng Xiao-Mao. Characterization of the mitochondrial genome of Amolops tuberodepressus (Anura: Ranidae). Mitochondrial DNA Part A, 2016, 27(4):2893-2894.

  10. Xia Yun, Zheng Yu-Chi*, Murphy R. W., and Zeng Xiao-Mao*. Intraspecific rearrangement of mitochondrial genome suggests the prevalence of the tandem duplication-random loss (TDLR) mechanism in Quasipaa boulengeri. 2016, BMC Genomics. 2016,17:965.

  11. Yuan Siqi, Xia Yun*, Zheng Yuchi, Zeng Xiaomao. Next-generation sequencing of mixed genomic DNA allows efficient assembly of rearranged mitochondrial genomes in Amolops chunganensis and Quasipaa boulengeri PeerJ, 2016, 2786:1-18.

  2015:

  12. Chen Meng-Yun, Mao Rong-Li, Liang Dan, Kuro-o Masaki, Zeng Xiao-Mao, Zhang Peng*. A reinvestigation of phylogeny and divergence times of Hynobiidae (Amphibia, Caudata) based on 29 nuclear genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 2015, 83:1-6.

  13. Luo Wei, Xia Yun, Wang Qiong*, Zeng Xiao-Mao*. Isolation and characterization of fifteen microsatellite markers for Sichuan Torrent Frog Amolops mantzorum (Anura: Ranidae) Conservation Genetics Resources, 2015, 7:489-491.

  14. Yuan Si-Qi, Xia Yun, Zheng Yu-Chi, Zeng Xiao-Mao*. Development of microsatellite markers for the spiny-bellied frog Quasipaa boulengeri (Anura: Dicroglossidae) through transcriptome sequencing. Conservation Genetics Resources, 2015, 7:229-231.

  2014:

  15. Shan Xiang, Xia Yun, Zheng Yu-Chi, Zou Fang-Dong*, Zeng Xiao-Mao*. The complete mitochondrial genome of Quasipaa boulengeri (Anura: Dicroglossidae). Mitochondrial DNA Part A, 2014, 25(2):83-84.

  16. Xia Yun, Zheng Yu-Chi, Miura Ikuo, Wong Pamela B. Y., Murphy Robert W., Zeng Xiao-Mao*. The evolution of mitochondrial genomes in modern frogs (Neobatrachia): nonadaptive evolution of mitochondrial genome reorganization. BMC Genomics 2014, 15:691.

  17. Xiong Jian-Li *, Liu Xiu-Ying, Qing Li-Yan, Zeng Xiao-Mao Comparison of vomerine tooth rows in juvenile and adult Hynobius guabangshanensis (Urodela: Hynobiidae). Vertebrate Zoology, 2014, 64 (2):215-220.

  2013:

  18. Qing Li-Yan, Xia Yun, Zheng Yu-Chi, Zeng Xiao-Mao*. FISH of 5S rDNA and telomeric (TTAGGG)n repeats in normal and translocated populations of the frog Quasipaa boulengeri (Anura, Ranidae). Chinese Science Bulletin, 58(18):2168-2173.

  19. Xia Yun, Hu Lu-Jun, Shan Xiang, Zheng Yu-Chi, Zeng Xiao-Mao*. Isolation and characterization of eleven polymorphic tetranucleotide microsatellite loci for Quasipaa boulengeri (Anura: Dicroglossidae). Conservation Genetics Resources, 2013, 5:5-7.

  2012:

  20. Xiong Jian-Li*, Chen Yue-Ying, Zeng Xiao-Mao. Catalogue of the Type Specimens of Amphibians and Reptiles in the Herpetological Museum of Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences:Ⅱ. Hynobiidae (Amphibian, Urodela). Asian Herpetological Research, 2012, 3(4): 327-333.

  21. Zheng Yu-Chi*, Peng Rui, Murphy Robert W., Kuro-o Masaki, Hu Lu-Jun, Zeng Xiao-Mao*. Matrilineal Genealogy of Hynobius (Caudata: Hynobiidae) anda Temporal Perspective on varying Levels of Diversity among Lineages of Salamanders on the Japanese Islands. Asian Herpetological Research, 2012, 3(4):288-302.

  22. Qing Li-Yan, Xia Yun, Zheng Yu-Chi, Zeng Xiao-Mao*. A de novo case of floating chromosomal polymorphisms by translocation in Quasipaa boulengeri (Anura, Ranidae). PLoS ONE, 2012, 7(10): e46163.

  23. Hu Lu-Jun, Xia Yun, Zheng Yu-Chi, Zeng Xiao-Mao*. Isolation and Characterization of ten Microsatellite Loci for the Chong'an Moustache Toad Leptobrachium liui (Anura: Megophryidae). Conservation Genetics Resources, 2012, 4:877-879.

  24. Lu Bin, Zheng Yu-Chi, Murphy Robert W., and Zeng Xiao-Mao*. Coalescence patterns of endemic Tibetan species of stream salamanders (Hynobiidae: Batrachuperus). Molecular Ecology, 2012, 21:3308-3324.

  25. Xia Yun, Gu Hi-Feng, Peng Rui, Chen Qin, Zheng Yu-Chi, Murphy R. W., Zeng Xiao-Mao*. COI is better than 16S rRNA for DNA barcoding Asiatic salamanders (Amphibia: Caudata: Hynobiidae). Molecular Ecology Resources, 2012, 12:48-56.

  2011:

  11. Xiong Jian-Li, Liu Xiu-Ying, Zeng Xiao-Mao*. Discovery of an Internasal Bone in Hynobius maoershanensis(Urodela: Hynobiidae). Asian Herpetological Research, 2011, 2(2):87-90.

  12. Zheng Yu-Chi*, Peng Rui, Kuro-o Masaki, Zeng Xiao-Mao*. Exploring patterns and extent of bias in estimating divergence time from mitochondrial DNA sequence data in a particular lineage: A case study of salamanders (Order Caudata). Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2011, 28(9):2521-2535.

  13. Xiong Jian-Li, Gu Hai-Jun, Gong Tian-Jian, Zeng Xiao-Mao*. Redescription of an enigmatic salamander, Pseudohynobius puxiongensis(Fei et Ye, 2000) (Urodela: Hynobiidae). Zootaxa, 2011, 2919:51-59.

  14. Gu Hi-Feng, Xia Yun, Peng Rui, Mo Bang-Hui, Li Li*, Zeng Xiao-Mao*. Authentication of Chinese Crude Drug Gecko by DNA Barcoding. Natural Product Communications, 2011, 6(1):67-71.

  2010:

  15. Rui Peng, Zhang Peng, Xiong Jian-Li, Gu Hai-Jun, Zeng Xiao-Mao*, Zou Fang-Dong*. Rediscovery of Protohynobius puxiongensis (Caudata: Hynobiidae) and its phylogenetic position based on complete mitochondrial genomes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 2010, 56:252-258.

  16. Zheng Yu-Chi, Deng Dun-Can, Li Shu-Qiang, Fu Jin-Zhong*. Aspects of the breeding biology of the Omei mustache toad (Leptobrachium boringii): polygamy and paternal care. Amphibia-Reptilia, 2010, 31:183-194.

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