Wei-Wei Zhou,

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Research Area

  Speciation and biodiversity formation, primarily using reptiles and amphibians as model systems.

Contact Information

E-mail: zhouweiwei@lzu.edu.cn

Location: Room 108B, Xiu Yun Building

Education

2007.09-2012.07    Ph.D. (Genetics), Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China

2003.09-2007.07    B.Sc. (Biological Sciences), Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China

Work Experience

  2020.05-present    Yong Researcher, Institute of Innovation Ecology, Lanzhou University, China

  2017.09-2018.09    Visiting scholar, The University of Arizona, America

  2016.01-2020.04    Associate Researcher, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

  2012.07-2015.12    Assistant Researcher, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Main Publications in Recent 5 Years 

*means corresponding author,# means co-first author
Zhou W, Jin J, Wu J, Chen H, Yang J, et al. 2017. Mountains too high and valleys too deep drive population structuring and demographics in a Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau frog Nanorana pleskei (Dicroglossidae). Ecology and Evolution 7:240–252.
Yuan Z, Zhou W, Chen X, Poyarkov NA, Jr., Chen H-M, et al. 2016. Spatiotemporal Diversification of the True Frogs (Genus Rana): A Historical Framework for a Widely Studied Group of Model Organisms. Systematic Biology 65:824–842.
Gao W, Sun Y, Zhou W, Xiong Z, Chen L, et al. 2019. Genomic and transcriptomic investigations of the evolutionary transition from oviparity to viviparity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 116:3646–3655.
Wang G, Zhang B, Zhou W, Li Y, Jin J, et al. 2018. Selection and environmental adaptation along a path to speciation in the Tibetan frog Nanorana parkeri. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 115:5056–5065.
Chen J, Poyarkov NA, Jr., Suwannapoom C, Lathrop A, Wu Y, Zhou W, et al. 2018. Large-scale phylogenetic analyses provide insights into unrecognized diversity and historical biogeography of Asian leaf-litter frogs, genus Leptolalax (Anura: Megophryidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 124:162–171.
Chen J, Zhou W, Poyarkov NA, Jr., Stuart BL, Brown RM, et al. 2017. A novel multilocus phylogenetic estimation reveals unrecognized diversity in Asian horned toads, genus Megophrys sensu lato (Anura: Megophryidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 106:28–43.
Yuan Z, Zhang B, Raxworthy CJ, Weisrock DW, Hime PM, Jin J, Lemmon AR, Holland SD, Kortyna ML, Zhou W, Peng M, Che J, Prendini E. 2019. Natatanuran frogs used the Indian Plate to step-stone disperse and radiate across the Indian Ocean. National Science Review 6:10–14.