Ren JL, Wang K, Tao TN, Chung VH, Zhong GH, Jiang K, Guo P, Li JT*. 2018. Taxonomic re-evaluation of the monotypic genus Pararhabdophis Bourret, 1934 (Squamata: Colubridae: Natricinae) with discovery of its type species, P. chapaensis, from China. Zootaxa, 4486(1), 031-056.

Li JT^#*, Gao YD^#, Xie L^#, Deng C, Shi P, Guan ML, Huang S, Ren JL, Wu DD, Ding L, Huang ZY, Nie H, Humphreys DP, Hillis DM^*, Wang WZ^*, Zhang YP^*. 2018. Comparative genomic investigation of high-elevation adaptation in ectothermic snakes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(33), 8406-8411.

Lv YY, He K, Klaus S, Brown MR, Li JT*. 2018. A comprehensive phylogeny of the genus Kurixalus (Rhacophoridae, Anura) sheds light on the geographical range evolution of frilled swamp treefrogs. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 121, 224-232.

Dang NX, Wang JS, Liang J, Jiang DC, Liu J, Wang L, Li JT*. 2018. The specialisation of the third metacarpal and hand in arboreal frogs: Adaptation for arboreal habitat? Acta Zoologica, 99(2), 115-125.

Ren JL, Wang K, Jiang K, Guo P, Li JT*. 2017. A new species of the Southeast Asian genus Opisthotropis (Serpentes: Colubridae: Natricinae) from western Hunan, China. Zoological Research, 38(05), 251-263.

Klaus S*, Morley RJ, Plath M, Zhang YP, Li JT*. 2016. Biotic interchange between the Indian subcontinent and mainland Asia through time. Nature Communications, 7(4), 12132.

Li JT*, Wang JS, Nian HH, Litvinchuk SN, Li Y, Rao DQ*, Klaus S. 2015. Amphibians crossing the Bering Land Bridge: evidence from holarctic treefrogs (Hyla, Hylidae, Anura). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 87, 80-90.

Li JT*, Li Y, Klaus S, Rao DQ, Hillis DM*, Zhang YP*. 2013. Diversification of rhacophorid frogs provides evidence for accelerated faunal exchange between India and Eurasia during the Oligocene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110, 3441-3446.

Li JT, Liu J, Chen YY, Wu JW, Murphy RW, Zhao EM, Wang YZ*, Zhang YP*. 2012. Molecular phylogeny of the Rhacophorus dugritei species complex (Anura: Rhacophoridae), with descriptions of two new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 165, 143-162.

Li JT, Li Y, Murphy RW, Rao DQ*, Zhang YP*. 2012. Phylogenetic resolution of the Asian tree frogs, Rhacophorus (Rhacophoridae, Amphibia). Zoologica Scripta, 41(6), 557-570.

Li JT, Che J, Murphy RW, Zhao H, Zhao EM, Rao DQ*, Zhang YP*. 2009. New insights to the molecular phylogenetics and generic assessment in the Rhacophoridae (Amphibia: Anura) based on five nuclear and three mitochondrial genes, with comments on the evolution of reproduction. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 53(2), 509-522.

Li JT, Che J, Bain RH, Zhao EM*, Zhang YP*. 2008. Molecular phylogeny of Rhacophoridae (Anura): a framework of taxonomic reassignment of species within the genera Aquixalus, Chiromantis, Rhacophorus and Philautus. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 48(1), 302-312.