目前以第一作者身份发表SCI论文11篇(4篇影响因子大于10),包括JCR一区期刊5篇,二区期刊5篇,研究成果曾获得F1000推荐,MBE当期评注,以及国际知名媒体the New York Times、ScienceDaily及国内各知名媒体报道
Li Y, Wang MS, Otecko NO, Wang Wen, Shi Peng, Wu DD, Zhang YP. Hypoxia potentially promotes Tibetan longevity. Cell Res. 2017, 27: 302-305
Li Y, Wang GD, Wang MS, Irwin DM, Wu DD, Zhang YP. Domestication of the dog from the wolf was promoted by enhanced excitatory synaptic plasticity: a hypothesis. Genome Biol Evol. 2014, 6(11):3115-3121
Li Y, Wu DD, Boyko AR, Wang GD, Wu SF, Irwin DM, Zhang YP. Population variation revealed high altitude adaptation of Tibetan Mastiffs. Mol Biol Evol. 2014, 31(5): 1200-1205
Li Y, vonHoldt BM, Wang GD, Reynolds A, Boyko AR, Wu DD, Zhang YP. Artificial selection on brain expressed genes during the domestication of dog. Mol Biol Evol. 2013, 30(8): 1867-1876
Li Y, Zhang YP. High genetic diversity of Tibetan Mastiffs revealed by mtDNA sequences. Chinese Sci Bull 2012, 57:1483-1487
Li Y, Zhang L, Zhang D, Zhang X, Lu X. Faster evolution of Z-linked duplicate genes in chicken. J Genet Genomics 2010, 37(10):695-702
Adilijan Kader*, Li Y*, Kunzhe Dong, David M. Irwin, Qianjun Zhao, Xiaohong He, Jianfeng Liu, Yabin Pu, Neena A. Gorkhali, Xuexue Liu, Lin Jiang, Xiangchen Li, Weijun Guan, Yaping Zhang, Dong-Dong Wu, Yuehui Ma. Population variation reveals independent selection towards small body size in Chinese Debao pony. Genome Bio. Evol. 2015, 8(1):42-50
Wang MS*, Li Y*, Peng MS*, Zhong L, Wang ZJ, Li QY, Tu XL, Dong Y, Zhu CL, Wang L, Yang MM, Wu SF, Miao YW, Liu JP, Irwin DM, Wang W, Wu DD, Zhang YP. Genomic analyses reveal potential independent adaptation to high altitude in Tibetan chickens. Mol Biol Evol. 2015, 32 (7):1880-1889
Wu DD*, Ye LQ*, Li Y*, Sun YB, Shao Y, Chen CY, Zhu Z, Zhong L, Wang L, Irwin DM, Zhang YE, Zhang YP. Integrative analyses of RNA-editing, alternative splicing and expression of young genes in human brain transcriptome by deep RNA-sequencing. J Mol Cell Biol. 2015 7 (4):314-325
Liu HQ*, Li Y*, Irwin DM, Zhang YP, Wu DD. Integrative analysis of young genes, positively selected genes and IncRNAs in the development of Drosophila melanogaster. BMC Evol Biol. 2014, 14:241
Wu DD*, Wang X*, Li Y*, Zeng L, Irwin DM, Zhang YP. “Out of pollen” hypothesis for origin of new genes in flowering plants: study from Arabidopsis thaliana. Genome Biol Evol. 2014, 6(10):2822-9