Education

2017.09-2021.12 Ph.D. student, Department of Ecology, College of Life Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

2013.09-2016.06 M.Sc., School of Sciences, Tibet University, Lhasa, China

2009.09-2013.06 B.Sc., College of Life and Environment Sciences, Huangshan University, Huangshan, Anhui, China

Publications

Abduriyim S, Zou DH, and Zhao HB* (2019). Origin and evolution of the MHC class I region in eutherian mammals. Ecology and Evolution. 9:7861-7874.

Yan Fang, Lü JC, Zhang BL, Yuan ZY, Zhao HP, Huang S, Wei G, Mi X, Zou DH, Xu W, Chen S, Wang J, Xie F, Wu MY, Xiao HB, Liang ZQ, Jin JQ, Wu SF, Xu CS, Tapley B, Turvey ST, Papenfuss TJ, Cunningham AA, Murphy RW*, Zhang YP*, Che J*. (2018) The Chinese giant salamander exemplifies the hidden extinction of cryptic species. Curr Biol 28(10):R590-R592.

Zou DH, et al. (2016) Discovery of Female Laudakia papenfussi Zhao, 1998, with Insights into its Phylogenetic Relationships. Asian Herpetol Res 7(2):122-+.

Zou DH, Tian SL, Zhang TZ, Wu GS, Wang MY, Dong L, and Zhao HB. Genetic changes in vultures associated with obligate scavenging lifestyle revealed by comparative genomics. (in preparation)

Technical Skills

Molecular biology: General molecular biology techniques including DNA/RNA extraction, PCR and cloning.

Genomics and comparative genomics: genome assembly and annotation, phylogenetic tree construction, divergence time inferences, selection analyses, etc.

Population genomics: variants calling, demographic inference, population genetic test, statistic calculation, etc.

RNA-seq: transcriptome assembly and annotation, expression analysis, etc.

Programming: Python, Perl and R programming skills. GitHub: https://github.com/BIGtigr/GenomicPipelines

General zoology and ecology field work skills.