Yun Xia works in the field of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and especially focuses on amphibians and reptiles on questions related to sex chromosome evolution and sex determination. More than 10 scientific research projects have been done, and more than 30 academic papers have been published.

Member of the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

1.             Wang ZW, Luo W, Ping J, Xia Y*, Ran JH, Zeng XM*. Large X-effects are absent in torrent frogs with nascent sex chromosomes. Molecular Ecology 2023, 32(19):5338-5349.

2.             Chu Z, Wang Z, Zheng Y, Xia Y*, & Guo X*. Sex-Linked Loci on the W Chromosome in the Multi-Ocellated Racerunner (Eremias multiocellata) Confirm Genetic Sex-Determination Stability in Lacertid Lizards. Animals 2023, 13(13), 2180.

3.             Ping J, Xia Y*, Ran JH, Zeng XM*. Heterogeneous Evolution of Sex Chromosomes in the Torrent Frog Genus Amolops. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2022, 23(19):11146.

4.             Xia Y^#, Yuan XY^#, Luo W, Yuan SQ, Zeng XM*. The Origin and Evolution of Chromosomal Reciprocal Translocation in Quasipaa boulengeri (Anura, Dicroglossidae). Frontiers in Genetics. 2020, 10: 1364

5.             Liu Y, Song MH, Luo W, Xia Y*, Zeng XM*. Chromosomal Evolution in the Amolops mantzorum Species Group (Ranidae; Anura) Narrated by Repetitive DNAs. Cytogenetic and Genome Research. 2019, 157: 172–178.

6.             Xia Y, Luo W, Yuan SQ, Zheng YC, Zeng XM*. Microsatellite development from genome skimming and transcriptome sequencing: comparison of strategies and lessons from frog species. BMC Genomics. 2018, 19:886.

7.             Yuan XY, Xia Y*, Zeng XM*. Sex chromosomal dimorphisms narrated by X-chromosome translocation in a spiny frog (Quasipaa boulengeri). Frontiers in Zoology. 2018, 15:47

8.             Yuan XY, Xia Y*, Zeng XM*. Suppressed Recombination of Sex Chromosomes Is Not Caused by Chromosomal Reciprocal Translocation in Spiny Frog (Quasipaa boulengeri). Frontiers in Genetics. 2018, 9:288.

9.             Xia Y, Zheng YC*, Murphy RW, and Zeng XM*. Intraspecific rearrangement of mitochondrial genome suggests the prevalence of the tandem duplication-random loss (TDLR) mechanism in Quasipaa boulengeri. BMC Genomics. 2016, 17:965.

10.          Xia Y, Zheng YC, Miura I, Wong P, Murphy RW, and Zeng XM*. The evolution of mitochondrial genomes in modern frogs (Neobatrachia): nonadaptive evolution of mitochondrial genome reorganization. BMC Genomics. 2014, 15: 691.

11.          Xia Y, Gu HF, Peng R, Chen Q, Zheng YC, Murphy RW, and Zeng XM*. 2012. COI is better than 16S rRNA for DNA barcoding Asiatic salamanders (Amphibia: Caudata: Hynobiidae). Molecular Ecology Resources 12:48-56.