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Yong Zhang

Researcher at Beijing Genomics Institute

Publications -  22
Citations -  5470

Yong Zhang is an academic researcher from Beijing Genomics Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Gene & Genome-wide association study. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 17 publications receiving 4632 citations. Previous affiliations of Yong Zhang include Chinese Academy of Sciences & Centre national de la recherche scientifique.

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Independent optical excitation of distinct neural populations

TL;DR: Two channelrhodopsins, Chronos and Chrimson, are described, discovered through sequencing and physiological characterization of opsins from over 100 species of alga, that enable two-color activation of neural spiking and downstream synaptic transmission in independent neural populations without detectable cross-talk in mouse brain slice.
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Phylotranscriptomic analysis of the origin and early diversification of land plants

TL;DR: Strong and robust support is found for a sister-group relationship between land plants and one group of streptophyte green algae, the Zygnematophyceae, and suggests that phylogenetic hypotheses used to understand the evolution of fundamental plant traits should be reevaluated.
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Comparative genomics reveals insights into avian genome evolution and adaptation.

Guojie Zhang, +106 more
- 12 Dec 2014 - 
TL;DR: This work explored bird macroevolution using full genomes from 48 avian species representing all major extant clades to reveal that pan-avian genomic diversity covaries with adaptations to different lifestyles and convergent evolution of traits.