Xiaojian Qu
Junior Editors, Plant Diversity
College of Life Sciences, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China
Area of expertise: Phylogeny, genomics, evolution, bioinformatics
College of Life Sciences, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China
Area of expertise: Phylogeny, genomics, evolution, bioinformatics
Title: PhD
Email: quxiaojian@sdnu.edu.cn
Web-link of Research Group:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Xiao-Jian-Qu (English)
http://www.lsc.sdnu.edu.cn/info/1092/4474.htm (Chinese)
Selected publications (no more than 15):
Na-Na Zhang#, Gregory W. Stull#, Xue-Jie Zhang, Shou-Jin Fan*, Ting-Shuang Yi*, Xiao-Jian Qu*. PlastidHub: An integrated analysis platform for plastid phylogenomics and comparative genomics. Plant Diversity, 2025, 47:544-560.
Ying-Ying Yang#, Gregory W. Stull#, Xiao‐Jian Qu, Min Deng, Lei Zhao, Yi Hu, Zhi-Heng Wang, Hong Ma, De-Zhu Li*, Stephen A. Smith* and Ting-Shuang Yi*. Genome duplications, genomic conflict, and rapid phenotypic evolution characterize the Cretaceous radiation of Fagales. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 2025, 00:1-16.
Xiao-Jian Qu*, Dan Zou, Rui-Yu Zhang, Gregory W. Stull, Ting-Shuang Yi*. Progress, challenge and prospect of plant plastome annotation. Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023, 14:1166140.
Dong-Ling Cao, Xue-Jie Zhang, Xiao-Jian Qu*, Shou-Jin Fan*. Phylogenomics, divergence time estimation, and adaptive evolution in the Pologonoideae (Polygonaceae). Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 2023, 61(6):1004-1019.
Xiao-Jian Qu#, Xue-Jie Zhang#, Dong-Ling Cao, Xiu-Xiu Guo, Jeffrey P. Mower*, Shou-Jin Fan*. Plastid and mitochondrial phylogenomics reveal correlated substitution rate variation in Koenigia (Polygonoideae, Polygonaceae) and a reduced plastome for Koenigia delicatula including loss of all ndh genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 2022, 174:107544.
Dong-Ling Cao#, Xue-Jie Zhang#, Shao-Qiu Xie, Shou-Jin Fan*, Xiao-Jian Qu*. Application of chloroplast genome in the identification of Triditional Chinese Medicine Viola philippica. BMC Genomics, 2022, 23:540.
Dong-Ling Cao, Xue-Jie Zhang, Xiao-Jian Qu*, Shou-Jin Fan*. Plastid phylogenomics sheds light on divergence time and ecological adaptations of the tribe Persicarieae (Pologonaceae). Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022, 13:1046253.
Gregory W. Stull#, Xiao-Jian Qu#, Caroline Parins-Fukuchi, Ying-Ying Yang, Jun-Bo Yang, Zhi-Yun Yang, Yi Hu, Hong Ma, Pamela S. Soltis, Douglas E. Soltis, De-Zhu Li*, Stephen A. Smith*, Ting-Shuang Yi*. Gene duplications and phylogenomic conflict underlie major pulses of phenotypic evolution in gymnosperms. Nature Plants, 2021, 7, 1015–1025.
Ying-Ying Yang, Xiao-Jian Qu, Rong Zhang, Gregory W. Stull*, Ting-Shuang Yi*. Plastid phylogenomic analyses of Fagales reveal signatures of conflict and ancient chloroplast capture. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 2021, 163, 107232.
Xiao-Jian Qu, Li-Kang Liu, Luo-Yan Zhang, Xue-Jie Zhang, Shou-Jin Fan*. First report of dodder (Cuscuta japonica) parasitizing Japanese red pine (Pinus densiflora) in China. Plant Disease, 2020, 104:6.
Xiao-Jian Qu, Michael J. Moore, De-Zhu Li*, Ting-Shuang Yi*. PGA: a software package for rapid, accurate, and fexible batch annotation of plastomes. Plant Methods, 2019, 15:1.
Xiao-Jian Qu, Shou-Jin Fan, Susann Wicke*, Ting-Shuang Yi*. Plastome reduction in the only parasitic gymnosperm Parasitaxus is due to losses of photosynthesis but not housekeeping genes and apparently involves the secondary gain of a large inverted repeat. Genome Biology and Evolution, 2019, 11(10):2789-2796.
Xiao-Jian Qu, Chung-Shien Wu, Shu-Miaw Chaw*, Ting-Shuang Yi*. Insights into the existence of isomeric plastomes in Cupressoideae (Cupressaceae). Genome Biology and Evolution, 2017, 9(4): 1110-1119.
Xiao-Jian Qu, Jian-Jun Jin, Shu-Miaw Chaw, De-Zhu Li*, Ting-Shuang Yi*. Multiple measures could alleviate long-branch attraction in phylogenomic reconstruction of Cupressoideae (Cupressaceae). Scientific Reports, 2017, 7: 41005.