Publications

2025

Masubuchi T, Chen L, Marcel N, Wen GA, Caron C, Zhang J, Zhao Y, Morris GP, Chen X, Hedrick SM, Lu LF, Wu C, Zou Z*, Bui JD*, Hui E*. Functional differences between rodent and human PD-1 linked to evolutionary divergence. Sci. Immunol., 2025, 10:eads6295. Download PDF


2022

Lu Y, Ballerio A, Wang S, Zou Z, Gorb SN, Wang T, Li L, Ji S, Zhao Z, Li S, Tong Y, Chen Y, Zhuo D, Luo C, Zhang W, Liu N, Gu Q, Bai M. The evolution of conglobation in Ceratocanthinae. Commun. Biol., 2022, 5:1–14. Download PDF


2021

Si S, Xu X*, Zhuang Y, Gao X, Zhang H, Zou Z*, and Luo SJ*. The genetics and evolution of eye color in domestic pigeons (Columba livia). PLOS Genet., 2021, 17:e1009770. Download PDF

Zou Z, and Zhang J. Are nonsynonymous transversions generally more deleterious than nonsynonymous transitions?Mol. Biol. Evol., 2021, 38:181-191. Download PDF


2020

Lyons DM*, Zou Z*, Xu H, Zhang J. Idiosyncratic epistasis creates universals in mutational effects and evolutionary trajectories.Nat. Ecol. Evol., 2020, 4:1685-1693. Download PDF

Zou Z, and Zhang J. The nature and phylogenomic impact of sequence convergence. Phylogenetics in the Genomic Era (C. Scornavacca, et al., eds).No commercial publisher | Authors open access book, pp.4.6:1-4.6:17, 2020. ffhal-02536347

Zou Z*, Zhang H*, Guan Y, Zhang J. Deep residual neural networks resolve quartet molecular phylogenies.Mol. Biol. Evol.,2020, 37:1495-1507. Download PDF


2019

Zhang W, Xu X, Yue B, Hou R, Xie J, Zou ZT, Han Y, Shen F, Zhang L, Xie Z, Yuan Y, Yin Y, Fu W, Chen D, Huang W, Liu Z, Tang Y, Zhao B, Zhang Q, Chen W, Zhang R, Chen J, Luo SJ, Zhang Z. Sorting out the genetic background of the last surviving South China tigers. J. Hered.,2019, 110: 641–650. Download PDF

Zou Z, and Zhang J. Amino acid exchangeabilities vary across the tree of life.Sci. Adv.,2019, 5: eaax3124. Download PDF

Ding X, Zou Z, Brooks III CL. 2019. Deciphering protein evolution and fitness landscapes with latent space models.Nat. Commun.,10: 5644. Download PDF


2017

Zou Z, and Zhang J. Gene tree discordance does not explain away the temporal decline of convergence in mammalian protein sequence evolution.Mol. Biol. Evol.,2017, 34: 1682-1688. Download PDF


2016

Zou Z, and Zhang J. Morphological and molecular convergences in mammalian phylogenetics.Nat. Commun.,2016, 7: 12758. Download PDF

Oetjens MT, Shen F, Emery SB, Zou Z and Kidd JM. 2016. Y-Chromosome structural diversity in the bonobo and chimpanzee lineages.Genome Biol.Evol.,8: 2231-2240. Download PDF


2015

Zou Z, and Zhang J. Are convergent and parallel amino acid substitutions in protein evolution more prevalent than neutral expectations? Mol. Biol. Evol., 2015, 32: 2085-2096. Download PDF

Zou Z, and Zhang J. No genome-wide convergence for echolocation. Mol. Biol. Evol.,2015, 32: 1237-1241. Download PDF

Zou Z-T, Uphyrkina O, Fomenko P, Luo S-J. The development and application of a multiplex short tandem repeat (STR) system for identifying subspecies, individuals and sex in tigers. Integr. Zool.,2015, 10: 376-388. Download PDF


2013

Xu X, Dong GX, Hu XS, Miao L, Zhang XL, Zhang DL, Yang HD, Zhang TY, Zou ZT, Zhang TT, Zhuang Y, Bhak J, Cho YS, Dai WT, Jiang TJ, Xie C, Li R, Luo SJ. The genetic basis of white tigers. Curr. Biol., 2013, 23:1031–1035. Download PDF


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