1964年生，先后毕业于四川大学、华东师范大学。长期从事以两栖爬行动物等为主要研究对象的进化细胞遗传学、系统发育与生命之树、物种形成与分化、分子识别条形码及芯片等领域的理论和技术方法研究。 特别对亚洲特有有尾两栖类小鲵科动物类群有较为深入的研究；对两栖爬行动物细胞遗传学有较为深入研究。发表论文120余篇，近年来团组研究成果相继发表于Molecular Biology and Evolution、Molecular Ecology、Molecular Ecology Resources、Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution等进化生物学领域主要刊物。
细胞与分子进化
研究团组链接：http://www.cib.ac.cn/jgsz/kyxt/lqpxdwyjs/lpyjtz/zxmtz/
中国动物学会两栖爬行动物学分会理事、《Asian Herpetological Research》副主编
国家自然科学基金面上项目: 棘腹蛙性染色体分化与性别决定格局。2018.1-2021.12
国家自然科学基金面上项目: 四川湍蛙近缘物种性染色体同形维持机制。2016.1-2019.12
国家自然科学基金面上项目: 棘腹蛙染色体易位重排与其群体分化关系。2013.1-2016.12
中国科学院知识创新工程重要方向项目子课题：山地两栖动物物种形成机制。2011.1-2013.12
国家自然科学基金面上项目: 基于线粒体基因组的小鲵属和腺蛙属的生物地理格局比较。2009.1-2011.12
国家自然科学基金面上项目:小鲵科系统发育与分布格局成因。2006.1-2008.12
国家自然科学基金面上项目:西部小鲵的系统发育与分布格局的关系研究。2001.1-2003.12
国家基金资助国际(地区)合作与交流项目：中国西部小鲵的系统发育研究。2001.1-2003.12
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.