Herpetology, Biogeography, Phylogeny

B.Sc.   Sichuan University, 2000

M.Sc.   Chengdu Institute of Biology, CAS, 2004

Ph.D.   Institute of Zoology, CAS, 2008

   

• Shuang Xu, Qiang Dai, Yuchi Zheng. 2023. Male spiny frogs enter the underwater battlefield with loose skin exhibiting enhanced penetration of capillaries into the epidermis. Zoological Letters 9: 19.
  
• Yuchi Zheng, Feng Xie. 2022. Underwater calling behavior in two high-altitude frog species. Journal of Zoology 317: 34–42.
• Pizhu Zhang, Xiaomao Zeng, Jinzhong Fu, Yuchi Zheng. 2021. UCE Phylogenomics, detection of a putative hybrid population, and one older mitogenomic node age of Batrachuperus salamanders. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107239.
• Yuchi Zheng, Qiang Dai, Xianguang Guo, Xiaomao Zeng. 2020. Dynamics behind disjunct distribution, hotspot-edge refugia, and discordant RADseq/mtDNA variability: insights from the Emei mustache toad. BMC Evolutionary Biology 20: 111.
  
• Yuchi Zheng. 2019. The co-occurrence of loose skin and underwater calling in frogs—further evidence from Amolops ricketti and its implications. Journal of Zoology 309: 280–286.
• Yuchi Zheng, Junhua Hu, Xiaomao Zeng. 2018. Examining the interglacial high-elevation refugia scenario in East Asian subtropical mountain systems with the frog species Leptobrachium liui. Ecology and Evolution 8: 9326–9340.
• Yuchi Zheng, John J. Wiens. 2016. Combining phylogenomic and supermatrix approaches, and a time-calibrated phylogeny for squamate reptiles (lizards and snakes) based on 52 genes and 4162 species. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 94: 537–547.
• Yuchi Zheng, John J. Wiens. 2015. Do missing data influence the accuracy of divergence-time estimation with BEAST? Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 85: 41–49.
• Yuchi Zheng, Rui Peng, Robert W. Murphy, Masaki Kuro-o, Lujun Hu, Xiaomao Zeng. 2012. Matrilineal genealogy of Hynobius (Caudata: Hynobiidae) and a temporal perspective on varying levels of diversity among lineages of salamanders on the Japanese Islands. Asian Herpetological Research 3: 288–302.
• Yuchi Zheng, Dingqi Rao, Robert W. Murphy, Xiaomao Zeng. 2011. Reproductive behavior and underwater calls in the Emei mustache toad, Leptobrachium boringii. Asian Herpetological Research 2: 199–215.
• Yuchi Zheng, Rui Peng, Masaki Kuro-o, Xiaomao Zeng. 2011. Exploring patterns and extent of bias in estimating divergence time from mitochondrial DNA sequence data in a particular lineage: a case study of salamanders (Order Caudata). Molecular Biology and Evolution 28: 2521–2535.
• Yuchi Zheng, Duncan Deng, Shuqiang Li, Jinzhong Fu. 2010. Aspects of the breeding biology of the Omei mustache toad (Leptobrachium boringii): polygamy and paternal care. Amphibia-Reptilia 31: 183–194.
• Yuchi Zheng, Jinzhong Fu, Shuqiang Li. 2009. Toward understanding the distribution of Laurasian frogs: a test of Savage’s biogeographical hypothesis using the genus Bombina. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 52: 70–83.
• Yuchi Zheng, Shuqiang Li, Jinzhong Fu. 2008. A phylogenetic analysis of the frog genera Vibrissaphora and Leptobrachium, and the correlated evolution of nuptial spine and reversed sexual size dimorphism. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 46: 695–707.
• Yuchi Zheng, Jinzhong Fu. 2007. Making a doughnut-shaped egg mass: oviposition behaviour of Vibrissaphora boringiae (Anura: Megophryidae). Amphibia-Reptilia 28: 309–311.
• Yuchi Zheng, Xiaomao Zeng, Yuzhe Yuan, Zhijun Liu. 2004. Phylogenetic positions of Ophryophryne and four Leptobrachium group genera in Megophryidae (Anura). Sichuan Journal of Zoology 23: 290–295.
• Yuchi Zheng, Banghui Mo, Zhijun Liu, Xiaomao Zeng. 2004. Phylogenetic relationships of megophryid genera (Anura: Megophryidae) based on partial sequences of mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene. Zoological Research 25: 205–213.