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Professional specialty：

• Major Interesting: Plant phylogeny, evolution and phylogeography

Funded projects：

• 1. Phylogenetic study on the tribe Thermopsideae (Leguminosae:Papilionoideae) (2000-2002). Director fund of Wuhan Botanical Garden.
  2. Phylogenetic study on the tribe Menispermeae (Menispermaceae) (2002-2005). Natural Science Fund of Hubei province.
  3. Phylogeny and floral ontogeny of Stephania (Menispermaceae) (2008-2010). NSF fund.
  4. Phylogeographic study on the Asian endemic endangered speices: Cercidiphyllum japonica (Cercidiphyllaceae) (2009-2011). Natural Science Fund of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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Major publications：

• 1. Sun YX, Moore MJ., Yue LL, Feng T, Wang HC^*, Li JQ^*. 2014. Chloroplast Phylogeography of the phylogenetically isolated, East Asian Tertiary relict Tetracentron sinense (Trochodendraceae). Journal of Biogeography, 41: 1721-1732 .
  2. Sun YX, Moore MJ, Zhang SJ, Soltis PS, Soltis DE, Zhao TT, Meng AP, Li XD, Li JQ, Wang HC^*. 2016. Phylogenomic and structural analyses of 18 complete plastomes across all families of early-diverging eudicots, including an angiosperm-wide analysis of IR gene content evolution. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 96, 93-101.
  3. Feng T, Moore MJ, Yan MH, Sun YX, Zhang HJ, Meng AP, Li XD, Jian SG, Li JQ^*, Wang HC^*. 2017. Phylogenetic study of the tribe Potentilleae (Rosaceae), with further insight into the disintegration of Sibbaldia. Journal of Sytematics and Evolution 55: 177–191.
  4. Sun YX, Moore MJ, Lin N, Adelalu KF, Meng AP, Jian SG, Yang LS, Li JQ, Wang HC^*. 2017. Complete plastomes sequencing of both living species of Circaeasteraceae (Ranunculales) reveals unusual rearrangements and loss of the ndh gene family. BMC Genomics. 18: 592.vYan MH, Fritsch PW, Moore MJ, Feng T, Meng AP, Yang J, Deng T, Zhao CX, Yao XH, Sun H^*, Wang HC^*. 2018. Plastome phylogenomics resolves infrafamilial relationships of the Styracaceae and sheds light on the backbone relationships of the Ericales. Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution. 121: 198-211 .
  5. Sun YX, Moore MJ, Landis JB, Lin N, Chen L, Deng T, Zhang JW, Meng AP,Zhang SJ, Tojibaev KS, Sun H^*, Wang HC^*(2018). Plastome phylogenomics of the early-diverging eudicot family Berberidaceae. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 128: 203-211.
  6. Zhang HJ, Feng T, Landis JB, Zhang X, Meng AP, Deng T, Sun H^*, Wang HC^*. 2019. Circumscription of the Sibbaldia procumbens complex (Potentilleae: Rosaceae) in China based on evidence from simple sequence repeat markers and morphology. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society191: 305-314.
  7. Zhang HJ, Feng T, Landis JB, Deng T, Zhang X, Meng AP, Sun H^*, Wang HC^*, Sun YX^*. 2019. Molecular phylogeography and ecological niche modeling of Sibbaldia procumbens s.l. (Rosaceae). Frontiers in Genetics10:201.
  8. Zhang X, Deng T, Moore MJ, Lin N, Meng AP, Wang HC^*, Sun YX^*, Sun H^* 2019. Plastome sequencing and phylogenomic analysis of Saussurea (Asteraceae: Cardueae). BMC Plant Biology. 19:290.
  9. Zhang X, Zhang HJ, Landis JB, Deng T, Meng AP, Sun H, Peng YS, Wang HC^*, Sun YX^*. 2019. Plastome phylogenomic analysis of Torreya (Taxaceae). Journal of Systematics and Evolution. 57(6): 607-615.
  10. Feng T, Yang Y, Busta L, Cahoon EB, Wang HC（并列senior author）, Lü SY^*. 2019. FAD2 Gene Radiation and Positive Selection Contributed to Polyacetylene Metabolism Evolution in Campanulids. Plant Physiology 181: 714–728.
  11. Sun YX， Deng T， Zhang AD， Moore MJ， Landis JB， Lin N， Zhang HJ， Zhang X，Huang JL， Zhang XJ^*， Sun H^*， Wang HC^*. 2020. Genome Sequencing of the Endangered Kingdonia uniflora (Circaeasteraceae, Ranunculales) Reveals Potential Mechanisms of Evolutionary Specialization. iScience. 23: 101124.
  12. Zhang X，Sun YX，Landis JB，Lv ZY，Shen J，Zhang HJ，LN，Li LJ，Sun J，Deng T，Sun H^*，Wang HC^*. 2020. Plastome phylogenomic study of Gentianeae (Gentianaceae): widespread gene tree discordance and its association with evolutionary rate heterogeneity of plastid genes. BMC Plant Biology. 20:340.
  13. Zhang X，Sun YX，Landis JB，Zhang JW，Yang LS，Lin N，Zhang HJ，Guo R，Li LJ，Zhang YH，Deng T，Sun H^*，Wang HC^*. 2020. Genomic insights into adaptation to heterogeneous environments for the ancient relictual Circaeaster agrestis (Circaeasteraceae, Ranunculales). The New phytologist. 228: 285-301.
  14. Zhang X, Landis JB, Sun YX, Zhang HJ, Lin N, Kuang TH, Huang XH, Deng T^*, Wang HC^*, Hang Sun^*. 2021. Macroevolutionary pattern of Saussurea (Asteraceae) provides insights into the drivers of radiating diversification.Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 288: 20211575.
  15. Guo R, Zhang YH, Zhang HJ, Landis JB, Zhang X, Wang HC^*, Yao XH^*. 2022. Molecular phylogeography and species distribution modelling evidence of ‘oceanic’adaptation for Actinidia eriantha with a refugium along the oceanic–continental gradient in a biodiversity hotspot. BMC Plant Biology22: 1-19.
  16. Li LJ, Xu XT, Qian H, Huang XH, Liu PJ, Landis JB, QS Fu, Sun L, Wang HC^*, Sun H^*, Deng T*. 2022. Elevational patterns of phylogenetic structure of angiosperms in a biodiversity hotspot in eastern Himalaya. Diversity and Distributions (Online).
  17. Zhang HJ, Zhang X, Landis JB, Deng T, Sun H, Wang HC^*, 2022. Phylogenomic and comparative analyses of Rheum (Polygonaceae, Polygonoideae).Journal of Systematics and Evolution(Online).