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.
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.
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.
Zou Z, and Zhang J. Are nonsynonymous transversions generally more deleterious than nonsynonymous transitions?Mol. Biol. Evol., 2021, 38:181-191.
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.
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.
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.
Zou Z, and Zhang J. Amino acid exchangeabilities vary across the tree of life.Sci. Adv.,2019, 5: eaax3124.
Ding X, Zou Z, Brooks III CL. 2019. Deciphering protein evolution and fitness landscapes with latent space models.Nat. Commun.,10: 5644.
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.
2016
Zou Z, and Zhang J. Morphological and molecular convergences in mammalian phylogenetics.Nat. Commun.,2016, 7: 12758.
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.
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.
Zou Z, and Zhang J. No genome-wide convergence for echolocation. Mol. Biol. Evol.,2015, 32: 1237-1241.
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.
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.
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