Kangshan Mao
Editors, Plant Diversity
Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
Area of expertise: Phylogenomics, historical biogeography, intercontinental disjunction, speciation, hybridization, adaptive introgression, conservation genomics
Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
Area of expertise: Phylogenomics, historical biogeography, intercontinental disjunction, speciation, hybridization, adaptive introgression, conservation genomics
Title: Professor
Email: maokangshan@163.com
Selected publications:
Wu, D.Y., R.I. Milne, H. Yang, et al., Phylogenomics shed light on the complex evolutionary history of a gymnosperm genus showing East Asian-Tethyan disjunction. JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION, 2025. 63(4): 817-834.
Tang, J.S., M. Ruhsam, S. Feng, et al., Genomic vulnerability and local adaptation of an arid tolerant tree species on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION, 2025. 63(4): 922-938.
Li, J.L., S.Y. Wang, G. Miehe, et al., Ecological Selection as Drivers During Early Speciation: Insights From Two Allopatric Cypress Species in the Himalaya. MOLECULAR ECOLOGY, 2025. 34(22): e70072.
Tao, T.Z., R.I. Milne, J.L. Li, et al., Conservation genomic investigation of an endangered conifer, Thuja sutchuenensis , reveals low genetic diversity but also low genetic load. PLANT DIVERSITY, 2024. 46(1): 78-90.
Tang, J.S., X.Y. Fan, R.I. Milne, et al., Across two phylogeographic breaks: Quaternary evolutionary history of a mountain aspen ( Populus rotundifolia ) in the Hengduan Mountains. PLANT DIVERSITY, 2024. 46(3): 321-332.
Yang, H., J.L. Li, R.I. Milne, et al., Genomic insights into the genotype-environment mismatch and conservation units of a Qinghai-Tibet Plateau endemic cypress under climate change. EVOLUTIONARY APPLICATIONS, 2022. 15(6): 919-933.
Wang, Y., M. Ruhsam, R. Milne, et al., Incomplete lineage sorting and local extinction shaped the complex evolutionary history of the Paleogene relict conifer genus, Chamaecyparis (Cupressaceae). MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION, 2022. 172.
Li, J.L., Y.J. Zhang, M. Ruhsam, et al., Seeing through the hedge: Phylogenomics of Thuja (Cupressaceae) reveals prominent incomplete lineage sorting and ancient introgression for Tertiary relict flora. CLADISTICS, 2022. 38(2): 187-203.
Li, J.L., R. Milne, D.F. Ru, et al., Allopatric divergence and hybridization within Cupressus chengiana (Cupressaceae), a threatened conifer in the northern Hengduan Mountains of western China. MOLECULAR ECOLOGY, 2020. 29(7): 1250-1266.
Mao, K., R.I. Milne, L. Zhang, et al., Distribution of living Cupressaceae reflects the breakup of Pangea. 2012. 109(20): p. 7793-7798.