刘振，博士，研究员，中国科学院“青年创新促进会”会员，国家自然科学基金委优秀青年基金获得者。主要以非模式动物为研究对象，基于分子演化理论，结合比较基因组学、进化遗传学、功能基因组学的研究策略，探讨适应性复杂性状起源和演化的分子遗传机制。目前，以第一或通讯作者身份在Science, Nature Communications, Science Advances, PNAS, Current Biology, Cell Research, Molecular Biology and Evolution等国际著名期刊发表研究论文数十篇；先后获得国家自然科学基金青年基金、面上项目、云南省青年拔尖人才、优秀青年基金等项目的资助。 

学习和工作经历

2018.09 - 至今：中国科学院昆明动物研究所，遗传资源与进化国家重点实验室，研究员

2013.01 – 2018.09：中国科学院昆明动物研究所，遗传资源与进化国家重点实验室，副研究员

2016.12 – 2017.12：密歇根大学，生态与进化生物学系，访问学者

2007.09 – 2013.01：中国科学院昆明动物研究所，获遗传学博士学位

2002.09 – 2006.06：烟台大学，生命科学学院，获理学学士学位

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.

19. Li Y^#, Liu Z^#, Shi P, and Zhang J^* (2010) The hearing gene Prestin unites echolocating bats and whales. Current Biology 20:R55-56.