Li Zhong

TL;DR: A reassessment of the mtDNA data from a series of disease studies testified to the usefulness of such a refined mtDNA tree in evaluating the pathogenicity of mtDNA mutations and a guideline based on the phylogenetic knowledge as proposed here could help avoiding similar problems in the future.

TL;DR: This study draws together humans and dogs in their recent genomic evolution, for the first time, and identifies a list of genes under positive selection during domestication, which overlaps extensively with the corresponding list of positively selected genes in humans.

TL;DR: It is found that dogs from southern East Asia have significantly higher genetic diversity compared to other populations, and are the most basal group relating to gray wolves, indicating an ancient origin of domestic dogs in southern EastAsia 33 000 years ago.

TL;DR: A de novo genome of the Tibetan frog, Nanorana parkeri, is provided and a series of comparisons with other vertebrates are conducted to offer an improved understanding of evolution of tetrapod genomes and also provides a genomic reference for other evolutionary studies.

TL;DR: A de novo genome of a Tibetan chicken is assembled and whole genomes of 32 additional chickens, including Tibetan chickens, village chickens, game fowl, and Red Junglefowl are resequenced, and it is found that the Tibetan chickens could broadly be placed into two groups.