Wei Zhou
Editors, Plant Diversity
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Population genetics, plant mating system, molecular evolution
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Population genetics, plant mating system, molecular evolution
Title: Professor
Email: zhouwei@mail.kib.ac.cn
Web-link of Research Group: https://people.ucas.ac.cn/~zhouwei
Selected publications:
Wang X, Zeng ZH, Ma PF, Liu YL, Sun HY, Wang H, Ma Hong, Li DZ*, Zhou W*.(2025) Clonal longevity and the enigmatic flowering of woody bamboos are associated with rates of protein evolution. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 67: 2945-2963.
Wang X†, Feng QH†, Zeng ZH, Zhang ZQ, Cai J, Chen G, Li DZ, Wang H*, Zhou W*. (2025) Effects of mode of reproduction on genetic polymorphism and divergence in wild yams (Dioscoreaceae: Dioscorea). Plant Diversity, 47: 136-147.
Zeng ZH, Zhong L, Sun HY, Wu ZK, Wang X, Wang H, Li DZ*, Barrett SCH*, Zhou W*. (2024) Parallel evolution of morphological and genomic selfing syndromes accompany the breakdown of heterostyly. New Phytologist, 242(1): 302-316.
Zhao L†, Zhou W†, He J, Li DZ*, Li HT*. (2023) Positive selection and relaxed purifying selection contribute to rapid evolution of male-biased genes in a dioecious flowering plant. eLife, 12: 89941.
Wang XJ, Barrett SCH, Zhong L, Wu ZK, Li DZ, Wang H*, Zhou W*. (2021) The genomic selfing syndrome accompanies the evolutionary breakdown of heterostyly. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 38(1):168–180.
Zhong L, Barrett SCH, Wang XJ, Wu ZK, Sun HY, Li DZ, Wang H*, Zhou W*. (2019) Phylogenomic analysis reveals multiple evolutionary origins of selfing from outcrossing in a lineage of heterostylous plants. New Phytologist, 224 (3): 1290-1303.
Zhou W, Barrett SCH, Li HD, Wu ZK, Wang XJ, Wang H, Li DZ. (2017) Phylogeographic insights on the evolutionary breakdown of heterostyly. New Phytologist, 214 (3): 1368-1380.
Zhou W, Barrett SCH, Wang H, Li DZ. (2015) Reciprocal herkogamy promotes disassortative mating in a distylous species with intramorph compatibility. New Phytologist, 206 (4): 1503-1512.
Zhou W, Barrett SCH, Wang H, Li DZ. (2012) Loss of floral polymorphism in heterostylous Luculia pinceana (Rubiaceae): a molecular phylogeographic perspective. Molecular Ecology, 21: 4631–4645.