CAS Center for Excellence in Animal Evolution and Genetics

LEI Fumin

2018-11-01 | | 【Print】

Dr. LEI Fumin got his Ph.D. degree in ornithology at Institute of Zoology, CAS in 1994. From 1998 to 2000, he was the post-doc fellow in University of Michigan. He has worked in IOZ since 1994, now as Principal Investigator and the Head of the Ornithological Research Group. Over 280 research papers or monographs have been published. He was elected in leading the Inovation Team in Zoological Systematics and Evolution (2014), and awarded the National Excellent Scientific and Technological Worker (2015), National Special Support Program for High-level Personnel Recruitment (2016). As the PI, Lei is leading the NSFC Key Program “On elevational species richness of birds in East Himalayan Mountains of Southwest China; On evolutionary mechanisms of bird adaptation to the extreme environment of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau”, China MOST Program “Investigation of animal resources and resource assessment of important animal groups in Southeast Tibet” and CAS-SPR-(B) Program “On birds’ adaptive properties to the Qinghai-Tibet plateau”.

Research Interest

His major interests are avian systematics, biodiversity and distribution, phylogeny and phylogeography, adaptive evolution by comparative genomics, and molecular epidemiology of wildlife diseases.

Selected Publications

1. Cai TL, Fjelds J, Wu YJ, Shao SM, Chen YH, Quan Q, Li XH, Song G, Qu YH, Qiao GX and Lei FM#. 2018. What makes the montane regions of Sino-Himalaya as the diversity hotspots of pheasants? Journal of Biogeography. 45:640-651.

2. Zhu XJ, Guan YY, Signore A, Natarajan C, DuBay SG, Cheng YL, Han NJ, Song G, Qu YH, Moriyama H, Hoffmann FG, Fago A, Lei FM# and Storz JF#. 2018. Divergent and parallel routes of biochemical adaptation in high-altitude passerine birds from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 115(8):1865-1870.

3. Wu YJ, DuBay SG, Colwell RK, Ran JH and Lei FM#. 2017. Mobile hotspots and refugia of avian diversity in the mountains of south-west China under past and contemporary global climate change. Journal of Biogeography 44, 615-626.

4. Zhang DZ, Song G, Gao B, Cheng YL, Qu YH, Wu SY, Shao SM, Wu YJ, Alstr？m P and Lei FM#. 2017. Genomic differentiation and patterns of gene flow between two long-tailed tit species (Aegithalos). Molecular Ecology 26: 6654-6665.

5. Song G, Zhang RY, Qu YH, Wang ZH, Dong L, Kristin A, Alstr？m P, Ericson PGP, Lambert D, Fjelds？ J and Lei FM#. 2016. A zoogeographic break between the Palearctic and Sino-Japanese realms documented by consistent North / South genetic divergences in three woodland birds in eastern China. Journal of Biogeography 43, 2099-2112.

6. Qu YH, Song G, Gao B, Quan Q, Ericson PGP and Lei FM#. 2015. The influence of geological events on the endemism of East Asian birds studied through comparative phylogeography. Journal of Biogeography 42, 179-192.

7. Qu YH, Ericson PGP, Quan Q, Song G, Gao B, Zhang RY and Lei FM#. 2014. Long-term isolation and stability explain high genetic diversity in the Eastern Himalaya. Molecular Ecology 23, 705-720.

8. Wu YJ, Colwell RK, Quan Q, Zhang CL and Lei FM#. 2014. Understanding historical and current patterns of species richness of babblers along a 5000-m subtropical elevational gradient. Global Ecology and Biogeography 23, 1167-1176.

9. Liu D, Shi WF, Shi Y, Wang DY, Xiao HX, Li W, Bi YH, Wu Y, Li XB, Yan JH, Liu WJ, Zhao GP, Yang WZ, Wang Y, Ma JC, Shu YL#, Lei FM# and Gao GF#. 2013. Origin and diversity of novel avian influenza A H7N9 viruses causing human infection: phylogenetic, structural, and coalescent analyses. Lancet 381(9881): 1926-1932.

10. Qu YH, Zhao HW, Han NJ, Zhou GY, Song G, Gao B, Tian SL, Zhang JB, Zhang RY, Meng XH, Zhang Y, Zhu XJ, Wang WJ, Lambert D, Ericson PGP, Yeung C, Zhu HM, Jiang Z, Li RQ# and Lei FM#. 2013. Ground tit genome reveals avian adaptation to living at high altitudes in the Tibetan plateau. Nature Communications 4:2071.

11. Song G, Yu LJ, Gao B, Zhang RY, Qu YH, Lambert DM, Li SH, Zhou TL and Lei FM#. 2013. Gene flow maintains genetic diversity and colonization potential in recently range-expanded populations of an Oriental bird, the Light-vented bulbul (Pycnonotus sinensis, Aves: Pycnonotidae). Diversity and Distribution 19, 1248-1262.

12.Wu YJ, Robert C, Rahbek C, Zhang CL, Quan Q, Wang CK and Lei FM#. 2013. Explaining the species richness of birds along a subtropical elevational gradient in the Hengduan Mountains. Journal of Biogeography 40, 2310-2323.