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— 2023 —
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— 2022 —
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— 2021 —
Xie, D.*, Chen, G., Meng, X., Wang, H., Bi, X., Fang, M., Yang, C., Zhou, Y., Long, E., & Feng, S.* (2021). Comparable Number of Genes Having Experienced Positive Selection among Great Ape Species. Animals, 11(11), 3264.
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— 2020 —
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— 2019 —
Feng, S., Fang, Q., Barnett, R., Li, C., Han, S., Kuhlwilm, M., Zhou, L., Pan, H., Deng, Y., Chen, G., Gamauf, A., Woog, F., Prys-Jones, R., Marques-Bonet, T., Gilbert, M. T. P., & Zhang, G.* (2019). The Genomic Footprints of the Fall and Recovery of the Crested Ibis. Current Biology, 29(2), 340–349.e7.
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— 2018 —
Kukekova, A. V.#, Johnson, J. L., Xiang, X., Feng, S., Liu, S., Rando, H. M., Kharlamova, A. V., Herbeck, Y., Serdyukova, N. A., Xiong, Z., Beklemischeva, V., Koepfli, K.-P., Gulevich, R. G., Vladimirova, A. V., Hekman, J. P., Perelman, P. L., Graphodatsky, A. S., O’Brien, S. J., Wang, X., … Zhang, G.# (2018). Red fox genome assembly identifies genomic regions associated with tame and aggressive behaviours. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2(9),1479–1491.
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