Key Laboratory of Zoological and Systematics and Evolution, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Till now, with my lab members, I found and described more than 80 new species, 16 new record genera and 186 new record species in Hymenoptera in China. Since 2006, I have been working mainly on species diversity and systematics on Apoidea. One new record genus, 14 new species and 11 new record species were discovered. After cataloguing species, we raised the record of bees to 1342 ones. I have more than 130 research articles published, cited at 936 times. In previous 5 years, I had 92 publications, with 61 ones as corresponding author and cited at 786 times.
We developed the automatic taxonomic annotation of sequences in large public database of genes. With this approach, we can delimit labeled or unlabeled species, correct wrong taxonomic annotations and build up large, multiple loci datasets simultaneously. In a most recent project, we delimit accurately over 70 000 insect species in GenBank. We can also update taxonomic information for sequences increasing dramatically to automatic species delineation from order to species. The paper was published on-line by Systematic Biology (JCR: 2/47, evolutionary biology; IF: 12.169; corresponding author). The novel approach was recognized by some distinguished scholars on molecular systematics, Professor Rod Page and Brian Wiegmann as an important and exciting one in the field of systematics.
We developed an automatic pipeline and novel method for bee species clustering and heuristic optimization of parameters basing on multiple loci. It was published by Methods in Ecology and Evolution (JCR: 12/136, Ecology; IF: 5.924; Corresponding author). DNA taxonomy on some wide distributed species of collembolans shows cryptic diversity. We also evaluated the significant impacts on distributional patterns by Qingling Mts. (Zoological Scripta, JCR: 12/151, Zoology; IF: 2.793; Corresponding author). We also discussed the evolutionary patterns of morphological features, especially the scales of collembolans (Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, JCR: 15/47, Evolutionary Biology; IF: 4.066; Corresponding author).
We proposed 4 index, simulated large datasets and did some real case studies on gene evolutionary models. Preferred selection was proposed in a paper published in BMC Evolutionary Biology in 2010 (JCR: 19/47, Evolutionary Biology; IF: 3.285; Corresponding author). It was highly accessed by readers of the journal and cited more than 44 times till now.
We set up bioinformatics approaches and evaluation criteria to compare all protein coding genes in MtGenome for species delimitation. We found all PNGs have higher accuracy above 90% and confirmed the efficiency of the popular DNA barcode for animal species. This finding was published in BMC Genomics in 2011 (JCR: 31/161, genetics; IF: 4.397; Corresponding author) and highly accessed by the journal readers. Till now, this paper has been cited at more than 31 times by papers published in Systematic Biology, Molecular Ecology, Nucleic Acids Research etc.