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2. Yuan YM and Gao YD*. 2024. Lilium liangiae, a new species in the genus Lilium (Liliaceae) that reveals parallel evolution within morphology. Front. Plant Sci. 15:1371237. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2024.1371237

3.Gao Y-D, AJ Harris, Song-Dong Zhou, Xing-Jin He. 2013. Evolutionary events in Lilium (including Nomocharis, Liliaceae) are temporally correlated with orogenies of the Q–T plateau and the Hengduan Mountains. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 68: 443-460.

4. Gao Y-D, Harris A, Li H and Gao X. 2020. Hybrid Speciation and Introgression Both Underlie the Genetic Structures and Evolutionary Relationships of Three Morphologically Distinct Species of Lilium (Liliaceae) Forming a Hybrid Zone Along an Elevational Gradient. Front. Plant Sci. 11:576407. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2020.576407

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6. Gao Y-D，Gao X-F, Harris AJ. 2019. Species boundaries and parapatric speciation in the complex of alpine shrubs, Rosa sericea (Rosaceae), based on population genetics and ecological tolerances. Frontiers in Plant Science 10:321.

7. Gao Y-D, Gao X-F. 2017. Lectotypification of the name Lilium lancifolium (Liliaceae). Taxon 66 (1): 172–174.

8. Gao, Y-D, Zhang Y, Gao, X-F, Zhu Z-M. 2015. Pleistocene glaciations, demographic expansion and subsequent isolation promoted morphological heterogeneity: A phylogeographic study of the alpine Rosa sericea complex (Rosaceae). Scientific Reports 5:11698.

9. Gao, Y-D, Harris AJ, & He X-J. 2015. Morphological and ecological divergence of Lilium and Nomocharis within the Hengduan Mountains and Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau may result from habitat specialization and hybridization. BMC Evolutionary Biology 15.

10. Gao Y-D, Zhou S-D, He X-J, Wan J. 2012. Chromosome diversity and evolution in tribe Lilieae (Liliaceae) with emphasis on Chinese species. Journal of Plant Research 125: 55-69.

11. Gao Y-D, Markus Hohenegger, AJ Harris, Song-Dong Zhou, Xing-Jin He, Juan Wan. 2012. A new species in the genus Nomocharis Franchet (Liliaceae): evidence that brings the genus Nomocharis into Lilium. Plant Systematics and Evolution 298: 69–85.

12. Gao Y-D. 2015. Continuous variation supports accommodating Lilium habaense and L. xanthellum within L. stewartianum (Liliaceae). Phytotaxa 226 (2): 196–198.

13. Gao Y-D, Gao X-F. 2016. Accommodating Nomocharis in Lilium (Liliaceae). Phytotaxa 277 (2): 205–210.

14.Gao Y-D, Song-Dong Zhou, Xing-Jin He. 2013. Lilium yapingense (Liliaceae), a new species from Yunnan, China, and its systematic significance relative to Nomocharis. Ann. Bot. Fennici 50: 187–194.

15.Gao Y-D, Zhou S-D, He X-J. 2011. Karyotype studies of thirty-two species in the genus Lilium (Liliaceae) of China. Nordic Journal of Botany 29: 746-761.

16.Gao Y-D, Zhou S-D, He X-J. 2009. Karyoytpes of Four Genera in Liliaceae (s. str.) from Hengduan Mountains of Southwestern China. Plant Diversity 31(5): 399-405.