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Huabin Zhao
Postdoctoral Fellow
U-M affiliation(s)
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Contact information
University of Michigan
1075 Kraus Natural Science Building
830 N. University
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1048
Phone: (734)
Fax: (734) 763-0514
Email: huabin@umich.edu
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Mentor
Jianzhi Zhang
Field of study
Molecular evolution, molecular phylogenetics, evolutionary genomics, evolutionary genetics
Research interests
I am interested in molecular evolution, molecular systematics and genomic diversity in vertebrates, particularly in mammals. My particular interest is to reconstruct the evolutionary history of key morphological or functional innovations, ultimately unraveling the genetic basis of morphological or ecological diversity in mammals and vertebrates. Additional interest is genomic evolution, to develop or test evolutionary hypotheses on speciation, natural selection, birth-and-death evolution and duplicated gene evolution based on genomic data using yeast as an evolutionary model organism.
Select publications
Zhao, H., D. Xu, Y. Zhou, J. Flanders and S. Zhang. 2009. Evolution of opsin genes reveals a functional role of vision in the echolocating little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus). Biochemical Systematics and Ecology. 37(3):154-161.
Zhao, H., S.J. Rossiter, E.C. Teeling, C. Li, J.A. Cotton and S. Zhang. 2009. The evolution of color vision in nocturnal mammals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(22): 8980- 8985.
Zhou, Y., D. Dong, S. Zhang, and H. Zhao (corresponding author). 2009. Positive selection drives the evolution of bat bitter taste receptor genes. Biochemical Genetics. 47(3-4):207-215.
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