(For a full list of publications and patents see below or go to ResearchGate)
Genomic structural variation is associated with hypoxia adaptation in high-altitude zokors (2024)
An X, Mao L, Wang Y, Xu Q, Liu X, Zhang S, Qiao Z, Li B, Li F, Kuang Z, Wan N, Liang X, Duan Q, Feng Z, Yang X, Liu S, Nevo E, Liu J*, Storz JF*, Li K*.
Nat Ecol Evol, 2024
Sympatric speciation of the spiny mouse from Evolution Canyon in Israel substantiated genomically and methylomically(2022)
Wang Y, Qiao Z, Mao L, Li F, Liang X, An X, Zhang S, Liu X, Kuang Z, Wan N, Nevo E*, Li K*.
PNAS, 119(13)
Genomic insights into zokors’ phylogeny and speciation in China (2022)
Liu X, Zhang S, Cai Z, Kuang Z, Wan N, Wang Y, Mao L, An X, Li F, Feng T, Liang X, Qiao Z, Nevo E*, Li, K*
PNAS, 119(19)
Local Adaptation of Bitter Taste and Ecological Speciation in a Wild Mammal (2021)
1. Jiao, H., Wang, Q., Wang, B. J., Li, K., Lövy, M., Nevo, E., Li, Q., Su, W., Jiang, P., Zhao, H.*
Mol Bio Evol, 38(10), 4562-4572
Genome evolution of blind subterranean mole rats: Adaptive peripatric versus sympatric speciation (2021)
Li, K.*, Zhang, S., Song, X., Weyrich, A., Wang, Y., Liu, X., Wan, N., Liu, J., Lövy, M., Cui, H., Frenkel, V., Titievsky, A., Panov, J., Brodsky, L., Nevo, E.*
PNAS, 117(51), 32499-32508
Genome evolution of blind subterranean mole rats: Adaptive peripatric versus sympatric speciation (2020)
Li, K., Ren, X., Song, X., Li, X., Zhou, Y., Harlev, E., Sun, D., Nevo, E.*
Life Sci alliance, 3(12)
Genome-wide analysis revisits incipient sympatric and allopatric speciation in a beetle (2020)
Hong, W., Li, K., Sharaf, K., Song, X., Pavlìcek, T., Zhao, H., Nevo, E.*
Isr J Ecol Evol, 1(aop), 1-12
Convergent reduction of V1R genes in subterranean rodents (2019)
Jiao, H., Hong, W., Nevo, E., Li, K., Zhao, H.*
BMC Evol Biol, 19(1), 1-9
Adaptive response of a soil fungus, Aspergillus niger, to changed environmental conditions in a soil transplant experiment (2018)
Grishkan, I.*, Wakamatsu, K., Perl, T., Li, K., Nevo, E.
Biol J Linn Soc.
Transcriptome profiling of high-altitudinal adaptations of Myospalax to Qinghai-Tibet Plateau stresses (2018)
Cai, Z.*, Wang, L.*, Song, X.*, Li, X., Zhang, Y., Li, K., Gao, D., Zhang, T., Nevo, E.
Sci Rep 16;8(1):1-1
Regulation of gene expression and RNA editing in Drosophila adapting to divergent microclimates at Evolution Canyon (2017)
Yablonovitch, A., Fu, J., Li, K., Mahato, S., Kang, L., Rashkovetsky, E., Korol, A., Tang, H., Michalak, P., Zelhof, A., Nevo, E., Li, J.
Nat Commun, 8(1), 1570
Genetic diversity and sex bias dispersal of plateau pika in Tibetan plateau (2017)
Zhang, L., Qu, J., Li, K., Li, W., Yang, M., Zhang, Y.
Ecol Evol
Sympatric speciation of spiny mice, Acomys, unfolded transcriptomically at Evolution Canyon, Israel (2016)
Li, K., Wang, H., Cai, Z., Wang, L., Xu, Q., Wang, Z., Nevo, E.*
PNAS, 113(29), 8254-8259
Transcriptome, genetic editing, and microRNA divergence substantiate sympatric speciation of blind mole rat, Spalax (2016)
Li, K., Wang, L., Knisbacher, B. A., Xu, Q., Levanon, E. Y., Wang, H., … & Buchumenski
PNAS, 113(29), 8254-8259
Mechanisms regulating proteostasis are involved in sympatric speciation of the blind mole rat, Spalax galili (2016)
Rodriguez, K. A., Li, K., Nevo, E., & Buffenstein, R.
Autophagy, 12(4), 703-704
Adaptive methylation regulation of p53 pathway in sympatric speciation of blind mole rats, Spalax (2015)
Zhao, Y., Tang, J. W., Yang, Z., Cao, Y. B., Ren, J. L., Ben-Abu, Y., Li, K., & Nevo, E.
PNAS, 113(8), 2146-2151
Sympatric speciation revealed by genome-wide divergence in the blind mole rat Spalax (2014)
Li, K., Hong, W., Jiao, H., Wang, G. D., Rodriguez, K. A., Buffenstein, R., … & Zhao, H.
PNAS, 112(38), 11905-11910
Genome-wide adaptive complexes to underground stresses in blind mole rats Spalax (2014)
Fang, X., Nevo, E., Han, L., Levanon, E. Y., Zhao, J., Avivi, A., Li, K., … & Krogh, A.
Nat Commun, 5
Molecular characterization of transgene integration by next-generation sequencing in transgenic cattle (2012)
Zhang, R., Yin, Y., Zhang, Y., Li, K., Zhu, H., Gong, Q., … & Li, N.
PLoS ONE, 7(11), e50348
Effectiveness of 10 polymorphic microsatellite markers for parentage and pedigree analysis in plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae) (2010)
Li, K., Geng, J., Qu, J., Zhang, Y., & Hu, S.
BMC Genet, 11(1), 101
A modified enrichment method to construct microsatellite library from plateau pika genome (Ochotona curzoniae) (2010)
Geng, J., Li, K., Zhang, Y., & Hu, S.
Genomics Proteomics Bioinformatics, 8(1), 72-76
Isolation and characterization of 13 microsatellite loci in the plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae) (2009)
Li, K., Geng, J., Yang, J., Zhang, Y., & Hu, S.
Conserv Genet, 10(3), 785-787