Yingxiong Qiu

Title: Professor, Director of Plant Diversity Center of the Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Email:  qiuyingxiong@wbgcas.cn, qyxhero@zju.edu.cn

Web-link of Research Group: https://wbg.cas.cn/sourcedb/zw/rck/202111/t20211116_6256743.html 

Selected publications:

Ren CQ, Comes HP, Zhu SS, Zhang XY, Jiang WM, Fu CX, Chen Jun, Ma YZ, Qiu Yingxiong*. 2025. Genome-wide patterns of local adaptation associated with transposable elements in Tetrastigma hemsleyanum (Vitaceae). New Phytologist, 247:1503–1519.

Feng Y, Comes HP, Chen J, Zhu SS, Lu RS, Zhang XY, Li P, Qiu J, Olsen KM*, Qiu Yingxiong*. 2024. Genome sequences and population genomics provide insights into the demographic history, inbreeding, and mutation load of two ‘living fossil’ tree species of Dipteronia. The Plant Journal, 117, 177–192.

Xu WQ, Ren CQ, Zhang XY, Comes HP, Liu XH, Li YG, Kettle CJ, Jalonen R, Gaisberger H, Ma YZ*, Qiu YX*. 2024. Genome sequences and population genomics reveal climatic adaptation and genomic divergence between two closely related sweetgum species. The Plant Journal, 118, 1372–1387.

Zhu SS, Zhang XY, Ren CQ, Xu XH, Comes HP, Jiang WM, Fu CX, Feng HX, Cai LM, Hong DY, Li KL, Kai GY, Qiu Yingxiong*. 2023. Chromosome-level reference genome of Tetrastigma hemsleyanum (Vitaceae) provides insights into genomic evolution and the biosynthesis of phenylpropanoids and flavonoids.The Plant Journal,114, 805–823.

Lu RS, Chen Y, Zhang XY, Feng Y, Comes HP, Li Z, Zheng ZS, Yuan Y, Wang LY, Huang ZJ, Guo Y, Sun GP, Olsen KM, Chen J, Qiu Yingxiong*. 2022. Genome sequencing and transcriptome analyses provide insights into the origin and domestication of water caltrop (Trapa spp., Lythraceae). Plant Biotechnology Journal, 20,761–776.

Xu WQ, Comes HP, Feng Y, Zhang YH, Qiu Yingxiong*. 2021. A test of the centre–periphery hypothesis using population genetics in an East Asian Tertiary relict tree. Journal of Biogeography, 48, 2853-2864.

Zhu SS, Chen J, Zhao J, Comes HP, Li P, Fu CX, Xie X, Lu RS, Xu WQ, Feng Y, Ye WQ, Sakaguchi S, Isagi Y, Li LF, Lascoux M, Qiu Yingxiong*. 2020. Genomic insights on the contribution of balancing selection and local adaptation to the long-term survival of a widespread living fossil tree, Cercidiphyllum japonicum. New Phytologist, 228, 1674–1689.

Wang YH, Jiang WM, Comes HP, Hu FS, QiuYingxiong*, Fu CX. 2015. Molecular phylogeography and ecological niche modelling of a widespread herbaceous climber, Tetrastigma hemsleyanum (Vitaceae): insights into Plio-Pleistocene range dynamics of evergreen forest in subtropical China. New Phytologist, 206, 852–867.

Chen C, Qi ZC, Xu XH, Koch MA, Comes HP, Jin XJ, Fu CX*, Qiu Yingxiong*. 2014. Understanding the formation of Mediterranean-African-Asian disjunctions: Evidence for Miocene climate-driven vicariance and recent long-distance dispersal in the Tertiary relict Smilax aspera L. (Smilacaceae). New Phytologist, 204, 243–255.

Qi XS, Chen C, Comes HP, Sakaguchi S, Liu YH, Tanaka N, Sakio H, Qiu Yingxiong*. 2012. Molecular data and ecological niche modelling reveal a highly dynamic evolutionary history of the East Asian Tertiary relict Cercidiphyllum (Cercidiphyllaceae). New Phytologist, 196, 617–630.

Qiu Yingxiong, Sun Y, Zong M, Zhang XP, Lee J, Murata J, Fu CX*, Comes HP*. 2009. Molecular phylogeography of East Asian Kirengeshoma in relation to Quaternary climate change and land-bridge configurations. New Phytologist, 183, 480–495.

Qiu Yingxiong*, Fu CX, Comes HP*. 2011. Plant molecular phylogeography in China and adjacent regions: Tracing the genetic imprints of Quaternary climate and environmental change in the world’s most diverse temperate flora. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 59, 225–244.