CAS Center for Excellence in Animal Evolution and Genetics

CHE Jing

2019-03-07 | | 【Print】

06/2000 B.Sc, Biology, College of Life Sciences, Southwest University, China.
06/2003 M.Sc, Zoology, College of Life Sciences, Southwest University, China.
12/2006 Ph.D., Herpetology, College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, China.

12/2006–09/2008 Assistant researcher, Kunming Institute of Zoology, CAS.
10/2008–10/2012 Associate Professor, Kunming Institute of Zoology, CAS.
11/2008–4/2009 Visiting scholar, Integrative Biology Department, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ), University of California at Berkeley, CA.
10/2011–12/2011 Senior visiting scholar, Integrative Biology Department, University of Texas at Austin, TX.
09/2012– Principal Investigator (PI), Professor, Kunming Institute of Zoology, CAS.

Research Interest

Research in my laboratory focuses on the population, evolutionary, and conservation genetics of amphibians and reptiles using a combination of fieldwork and molecular genetic analyses. We are interested in how historical and ongoing processes have shaped the patterns of biodiversity of amphibians and reptiles that exist today, and what contemporary patterns of genetic variation can tell us about the history, ecology, evolutionary attributes and conservation status.
Much of our current work is engaged in species from three interesting regions: China’s Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and Hengduan Mountain Ranges, Southeast Asia, and the mainland of East China and nearby islands.
Most of the work in the lab is organized around themes shown as below:
1)Using “DNA Barcode” technique in combination of morphological and ecological studies, to investigate diversity of cryptic species and improve our knowledge on overall herpetological diversity in China and Southeast Asia
2)Systematics (mostly focus on the molecular phylogeny of amphibians, reptiles to a lesser)
3)Biogeography (especially mechanisms of speciation and biodiversity formation)
4)Conservation genetics (Chinese giant salamander)
5)Phenotypic adaptation to local environment and its underlying evolutionary mechanisms: Combined with ecological, behavioral, physiological, genetic and other aspects, we would like to explore the phenotypic adaptation and its evolutionary mechanism for those typical amphibians tolerant of extreme environments.

Publications

Wei Gao#, Yan-Bo Sun#, Wei-Wei Zhou#, Zi-Jun Xiong#, Luonan Chen, Hong Li, Ting-Ting Fu, Kai Xu, Wei Xu, Li Ma, Yi-Jing Chen, Xue-Yan Xiang, Long Zhou, Tao Zeng, Si Zhang, Jie-Qiong Jin, Hong-Man Chen, Guojie Zhang, David M. Hillis*, Xiang Ji*, Ya-Ping Zhang*, Che J*. 2019. Genomic and transcriptomic investigations of the evolutionary transition from oviparity to viviparity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 116(9): 346–365.

Yuan ZY#, Zhang BL#, Raxworthy CJ, Weisrock DW,Hime PM, Jin JQ, Lemmon EM, Lemmon AR, Holland SD, Kortyna ML,Zhou WW, Peng MS, Che J*, Prendini E. 2018. Natatanuran frogs used the Indian Plate to step-stone disperse and radiate across the Indian Ocean. National Science Review. https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwy092.

Wang K*, Che J*, Lin S, Deepak V, Aniruddha D, Jiang K, Jin JQ, Chen HM, Siler CD. 2019. Multilocus phylogeny and taxonomic revision of the mountain dragons of the genus Japalura Gray, 1853 (Reptilia: Squamata: Agamidae). Zoological

Journal of the Linnean Society, 185(1): 246–267. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zly034/5126523.

Chen JM#, Poyarkov Jr NA#, Suwannapoom C#, Lathrop A#, Wu YH, Zhou WW, Yuan,ZY, Jin JQ, Chen HM, Liu HQ, Nguyen TQ, Nguyen SN, Duong TV, Eto K, Nishikawa K, Matsui M, Orlov NL, Stuart BL, Brown RM, Rowley JJL*, Murphy RW*, Wang YY*,Che J*. 2018. Large-scale phylogenetic analyses provide insights into unrecognized diversity and historical biogeography of Asian leaf-litter frogs, genusLeptolalax(Anura: Megophryidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 124: 162–171

Sun YB#, Fu TT#, Jin JQ, Murphy RW, Hillis DM*, Zhang YP*, Che J*. 2018. Species groups distributed across elevational gradients reveal convergent and continuous genetic adaptation to high elevations Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115(45): E10634–E10641.

Wang GD#, Zhang BL#, Zhou WW, Li YX, Jin JQ, Shao Y, Yang H, Liu YH, Yan F, Chen HM, Jin L, Gao F, Zhang Y, Li H, Mao B, Murphy RW, Wake DB*, Zhang YP*, Che J*. 2018. Selection and environmental adaptation along a path to speciation in the Tibetan frog Nanorana parkeri. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115(22): E5056–E5065.

Yan F, Lü JC, Zhang BL, Yuan ZY, Zhao HP, Huang S, Wei G, Mi X, Zou DH, Xu W, Chen S, Wang J, Xie F, Wu MY, Xiao HB, Liang ZQ, Jin JQ, Wu SF, Xu CS, Tapley B, Turvey ST, Papenfuss TJ, Cunningham AA, Murphy RW*, Zhang YP*,Che J*. 2018. The Chinese giant salamander exemplifies the hidden extinction of cryptic species.Current Biology, 28(10): R590-R592.

Chen JM, Zhou WW, Poyarkov Jr NA, Stuart LB, Brown MR, Lathrop A, Wang YY, Yuan ZY, Jiang K, Hou M, Chen HM, Suwannapoom C, Nguyen NS, Duong VT, Papenfuss JT, Murphy RW, Zhang YP*, Che J*. 2017. A novel multilocus phylogenetic estimation reveals unrecognized diversity in Asian horned toads, genus Megophrys sensu lato (Anura: Megophryidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 106: 28-43.

Yuan ZY#, Zhow WW#, Chen X#, Poyarkov JRNA, Chen HM, Jang-Liaw NH, Chou WH, Matzke NJ, Iizuka K, Min MS, Kuzmin SL, Zhang YP*, Cannatella DC*, Hillis DM*, Che J*. 2016 Spatiotemporal diversification of the true frogs (genus Rana): a historical framework for a widely studied group of model organisms. Systematic Biology, 65(5): 824–842. doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syw055.

Sun YB#, Xiong ZJ#, Xiang XY#, Liu SP, Zhou WW, Tu XL, Zhong L, Wang L, Wu DD, Zhang BL, Zhu CL, Yang MM, Chen HM, Li F, Zhou L, Feng SH, Huang C, Zhang GJ, Irwin D, Hillis DM*, Murphy RW, Yang HM, Che J*, Wang J*, Zhang YP* 2015. Whole-genome sequence of the Tibetan frog Nanorana parkeri and the comparative evolution of tetrapod genomes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112(11), E1257–E1262.