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Name:
 Dezhi Zhang
Subject:
 Zoology
Tel/Fax:
 010-64807062  / 
E-mail:
 zhangdezhi@ioz.ac.cn
Address:
 Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1 Beichen West Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100101, P. R. China.
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Resume:

Dezhi Zhang obtained his PhD degree in 2018 from the Institute of Zoology (IOZ), Chinese Academy of Sciences. Following two years postdoctoral career at IOZ, he assumed the position of assistant professor from Jul. 2020 to Jan. 2024 and was subsequently promoted to associate professor in Feb. 2024 at IOZ.

Research Interests:

Phylogenomics and speciation of birds.

Awards and Honors:

Professional Activities:

Research Grants:

The reticulated evolution of Emberizidae birds (NSFC No. 32270466)

The phylogenomics of 8 Seicercus species (NSFC No. 31900320)

Selected Publications:

(#first author，*corresponding author)

  1. Dezhi Zhang, Huishang She, Shangyu Wang, Haitao Wang, Shi Li, Yalin Cheng, Gang Song, Chenxi Jia, Yanhua Qu, Frank E Rheindt, Urban Olsson, Per Alstrom, Fumin Lei*; Phylogenetic Conflict Between Species Tree and Maternally Inherited Gene Trees in a Clade of Emberiza Buntings (Aves: Emberizidae), Systematic Biology, 2024, doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syad078.
  2. Dezhi Zhang#, Huishang She#, Frank E. Rheindt, Lei Wu, Huan Wang, Kai Zhang, Yalin Cheng, Gang Song, Chenxi Jia, Yanhua Qu, Urban Olsson, Per Alstrom, Fumin Lei*; Genomic and phenotypic changes associated with alterations of migratory behaviour in a songbird, Molecular Ecology, 2023, 32(2): 381-392.
  3. Lei Wu, Jing Dang, Linfang Tang, Yalin Cheng, Gang Song, Yuehua Sun, Jochen Martens, Martin Packert, Per Alstrom, Dezhi Zhang*, Chenxi Jia*, Fumin Lei*; Limited Song Mixing Without Genomic Gene Flow in a Contact Zone Between Two Songbird Species, Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2023, 40(3): msad053.
  4. Dezhi Zhang, Frank E. Rheindt, Huishang She, Yalin Cheng, Gang Song, Chenxi Jia, Yanhua Qu, Per Alstrom*, Fumin Lei*; Most Genomic Loci Misrepresent the Phylogeny of an Avian Radiation Because of Ancient Gene Flow, Systematic Biology, 2021, 70(5): 961-975.
  5. Dezhi Zhang, Linfang Tang, Yalin Cheng, Yan Hao, Ying Xiong, Gang Song, Yanhua Qu, Frank E. Rheindt, Per Alstrom, Chenxi Jia*, Fumin Lei*; “Ghost introgression” as a cause of deep mitochondrial divergence in a bird species complex, Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2019, 36(11): 2375-2386.
  6. Dezhi Zhang#, Gang Song#, Bin Gao, Yalin Cheng, Yanhua Qu, Shaoyuan Wu, Shimiao Shao, Yongjie Wu, Per Alstrom, Fumin Lei*; Genomic differentiation and patterns of gene flow between two long-tailed tit species (Aegithalos), Molecular Ecology, 2017, 26(23): 6654-6665.