1. GuoY.-T.#, Jiang J.-B.#, Qiao G.-R.#, Luo R.-H., Zhou X., Hua R., Zheng C.-B.*, & Liu Z* (2024) Pleiotropy of positive selection in ancient ACE2 suggests an alternative hypothesis for bat-specific adaptations to host coronaviruses. PNAS (in press).
2. Hua R., Ma Y.-S., Yang L., Hao J.-J., Hua Q.-Y., Shi L.-Y., Yao X.-Q., Zhi H.-Y. & Liu Z* (2024) Experimental evidence for cancer resistance in a bat species. Nature Communications, 15: 1401.
3. Liu Z#, Chen P#, Xu DM#, Qi FY#, Guo YT, Liu Q, Bai J, Zhou X, Shi P* (2022) Molecular convergence and transgenic evidence suggest a single origin of laryngeal echolocation in bats. iScience. 25:104114.
4. Chen P#, Hao JJ#, Li MW, Bai J, Guo YT, Liu Z*, Shi P* (2022) Integrative functional transcriptomic analyses implicate shared molecular circuits. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. 16: Article 857344.
5. Hao JJ, Hao WL, Liu Z*, Shi P* (2022) The toggle switch model for gene expression change during the prenatal-to-postnatal transition in mammals. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 36: msac036.
6. Guo YT, Zhang J, Xu DM, Tang LZ*, Liu Z* (2021). Phylogenomic relationships and molecular convergences to subterranean life in rodent family spalacidae. Zoological Research, 42: 671-674.
7. He K#, Liu Q#, Xu DM#, Qi FY#, Bai J, He SW, Chen P, Zhou X, Cai WZ, Chen ZZ, Liu Z*, Jiang XL*, Shi P* (2021) Echolocation in soft-furred tree mice. Science 372: eaay1513.
8. Xu DM#, Yang CP#, Shen QS#, Pan SK#, Liu Z#, Zhang TZ#, Zhou X, Lei ML, Chen P, Yang H, Zhang T, Guo YT, Zhan XJ*, Chen YB*, Shi P* (2021) A single mutation underlying phenotypic convergence for hypoxia adaptation on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Cell Research. doi.org/10.1038/s41422-021-00517- 6.
9. Liu Z, Qi FY, Xu DM, Zhou X, Shi P* (2018) Genomic and functional evidence reveals molecular insights into the origin of echolocation in whales. Science Advances. 4:eaat8821.
10. Liu Z, Zhang J* (2018) Human C-to-U coding RNA editing is largely nonadaptive. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 35:963-969.
11. Liu Z, Zhang J* (2017) Most m6A RNA modifications in protein-coding regions are evolutionarily unconserved and likely nonfunctional. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 35:666-675.
12. Li YY#, Liu Z#*, Qi FY, Zhou X, Shi P* (2016) Functional effects of a retained ancestral polymorphism in prestin. Molecular Biology and Evolution 34:88-92.
13. Zhang Z, Wu Q, Zhang G, Zhu Y, Murphy R, Liu Z*, Zou C* (2015) Systematic analyses reveal uniqueness and origin of the CFEM domain in fungi. Scientific Reports 5:13032.
14. Liu Z, Qi FY, Zhou X, Ren HQ, Shi P* (2014) Parallel sites implicate functional convergence of the hearing gene prestin among echolocating mammals. Molecular Biology and Evolution 31:2415-2424.
15. Liu Z* (2014) Codon 104 of p53 is not an adaptively selected site for extreme environments in mammals of the Tibet plateau. PNAS 111:E2357.
16. Liu Z, Wang W, Zhang TZ, Li GH, He K, Huang JF, Jiang XL, Murphy RW, Shi P* (2013) Repeated functional convergent effects of NaV1.7 on acid insensitivity in hibernating mammals. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281:20132950.
17. Liu Z, Li GH, Huang JF, Murphy RW, Shi P* (2012) Hearing aid for vertebrates via multiple episodic adaptive events on prestin genes. Molecular Biology and Evolution 29:2187-2198.
18. Liu Z, Li S, Wang W, Xu DM, Murphy RW, Shi P* (2011) Parallel evolution of KCNQ4 in echolocating bats. PLoS One 6:e26618.
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