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杨四海 教授

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南京大学生命科学学院教授、博导,主要从事进化遗传学、生物信息学相关研究。



研究方向

主要从事进化遗传学、生物信息学研究方向:

1)基因组遗传变异的分子机制;

2)植物抗病基因的起源、遗传变异与保存机制、功能等;

3)基因组学、功能基因组学;



代表性研究论文:

Wang L, Ho AT, Hurst LD*, Yang S*. (2023) Re-evaluating evidence for adaptive mutation rate variation. Nature 619: E52-56

Jia Y, Qin C, Traw MB, Chen X, He Y, Kai J, Yang S*, Wang L*, Hurst LD* (2022) In rice splice variants that restore the reading frame after frameshifting indel introduction are common, often induced by the indels and sometimes lead to organism-level rescue. PLOS Genetics 18(2): e1010071

Ren Y, He Z, Liu P, Traw B, Sun S, Tian D, Yang S, Jia Y, Wang L*. (2021) Somatic mutation analysis in Salix suchowensis reveals early segregated cell lineages. Mol Biol Evol DOI10.1093/molbev/msab286  

Yu L, Ma S, Zhang X, Tian D, Yang S*, Jia X*, Traw MB*. (2021) Rapid functional differentiation and fixation of the duplicated members in rice Dof genes after whole genome duplication. Plant J 1081351-1381

Jia X, Zhang Q, Jiang M, Huang J, Yu L, Traw MB, Tian D, Hurst LD*, Yang S* (2021) Mitotic gene conversion can be as important as meiotic conversion in driving genetic variability in plants and other species without early germline segregation. PLOS Biol19(3): e3001164 

Wang L, Sun, Y, Sun X, Yu L, Xue L, He Z, Huang J, Tian D, Hurst LD*, Yang S* (2020) Repeat-induced point mutation in Neurospora crassa causes the highest known mutation rate and mutational burden of any cellular life. Genome Biol21:142 

Jiang M, He Y, Chen X, Zhang X, Guo Y, Yang S, Huang J, Traw M* (2020) CRISPR-based assessment of genomic structure in the conserved SQUAMOSA promoter-binding-like gene clusters in rice. Plant J 104(5):1301-1314

Wang L, Zhao L, Zhang X, Zhang Q, Jia Y, Wang G, Li S, Tian D, Li WS*, Yang S* (2019) Large-scale identification and functional analysis of NLR genes in blast resistance in the Tetep rice genome sequence. PNAS 116:18479-18487 

Chen J, Hao Z, Guang X, Zhao C, Wang P, Xue L, Zhu Q, Yang L, Yu Sheng1 , Zhou Y, Xu H, Xie H, Long X, Zhang J, Wang Z, Shi M, Lu Y, Liu S, Guan L, Zhu Q, Yang L, Ge S , Cheng T, Laux T, Gao Q, Peng Y, Liu N*, Yang S*, Shi J* (2019) Liriodendron genome sheds light on angiosperm phylogeny and species-pair differentiation. Nature Plants518–25

Wang L, Ji Y, Hu Y, Hu H, Jia X, Jiang M, Zhang X, Zhao L, Zhang Y, Jia Y, Qin C, Yu L, Huang J, Yang S*, Hurst LD* and Tian D*. (2019) The architecture of intra-organism mutation rate variation in plants. Plos Biol 17(4):e3000191 

Jia X, Zhang Y, Zhang Q, Zhao Q, Wang L, Traw M, Tian D, Wang C*, Yang S*. (2019) High resolution insight into recombination events at the SD1 locus in rice.  Plant J  97683-692

Chen X, Tian X, Xue L, Zhang X, Yang S*, Traw M*, Huang J*. (2019) CRISPR-based assessment of gene specialization in the gibberellin metabolic pathway in rice. Plant Physiol180(4):2091-2105 

Liu H, Huang J, Sun X, Li J, Hu Y, Yu L,Liti G, Tian D, Hurst LD*, Yang S*. (2018) Tetrad analysis in plants and fungifinds large differences in gene conversion rates but no GC bias. Nature Ecol Evol  2, 164–173 

Huang J, Li J, Zhou J, Wang L, Yang S, Hurst LD, Li W-H* & Tian D*. (2018) Identifying a Large Number of High-Yield Genes in Rice by Pedigree Analysis, Whole-Genome Sequencing, and CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Knockout. PNAS 115(32): E7559-E7567

Liu H, Jia Y, Sun X, Tian D, Hurst LD*,Yang S*. (2017) Direct determination of the mutation rate in the bumblebeereveals evidence for weak recombination-associated mutation and an approximaterate constancy in insects.  Mol Biol Evol 34: 119-130 

Gu L, Wu Y, Jiang M, Si W, Zhang X, TianD*, Yang S*. (2016) Dissimilar Manifestation of Heterosis in Super Hybrid Riceat Early-Tillering Stage under Nutrient-Deficient and Nutrient-SufficientCondition. Plant Physiol  172: 1142-1153

Xie Z, Wang L, Wang L, Wang Z, Lu, Z, TianD, Yang S*, Hurst LD.* (2016) Mutation rate analysis via parent-progenysequencing of the perennial peach I. A low rate in woody perennials and ahigher mutagenicity in hybrids. P Roy Soc B-Biol Sci 283: 20161016.

Wang L, Zhang Y, Qing C, Tian D, Yang S*,Hurst LD.* Mutation rate analysis via parent-progeny sequencing of theperennial peach II: No evidence for recombination-associated mutation. P RoySoc B-Biol Sci 283: 20161785

Sun XQ, Li DH, Xue JY, Yang SH, Zhang YM, Li MM, Hang Y. (2016) Insertion DNA accelerates meiotic inerchromosomal recombination in Arabidopsis thaliana. Mol Biol Evol 33:2044-53 

Yang S, Wang L, Huang J, Zhang X, Yuan Y,Chen J-Q, Hurst LD*, Tian D* (2015). Parent-progeny sequencing indicates highermutation rates in heterozygotes. Nature 523 :463-467 

Liu H#, Zhang X#, Huang J, Chen JQ, Tian D,Hurst LD*, Yang S*. (2015) Causes and consequences of crossing-over evidencedvia a high-resolution recombinational landscape of the honey bee. Genome Biology16:15

Si W, Yuan Y, Huang J, Zhang X, Zhang Y,Zhang Y, Tian D, Wang C, Yang YH*, Yang S*. (2015) Widely distributed hot andcold spots in meiotic recombination as shown by sequencing of rice F2 plants. New Phytologist 206 :1491-1502 

Zhang X#, Yang S#, Wang J#, Jia Y#, HuangJ#, Zhong Y, Tan S, Wang L, Gu L, Chen JQ, Pan QH*, Bergelson J*, Tian D*.(2015) A genome-wide survey reveals abundant rice blast R-genes in resistantcultivars. Plant J 84 :20-28 

Yang S#, Li J#, Zhang X#, Zhang Q, Huang J,Chen J-Q, Hartl DL*, Tian D*. (2013) Rapidly evolving R genes in diverse grassspecies confer resistance to rice blast disease. PNAS110:18572-18577. 

Yang S#, Yuan Y#, Wang L#, Li J, Wang W,Liu H, Chen JQ, Hurst LD*, Tian D*. (2012) Great majority of recombinationevents in Arabidopsis are gene conversion events. PNAS  109:20992–20997. 

Yue J-X, Meyers BC, Chen J-Q, Tian D*, YangS*. (2012) Tracing the origin and evolutionary history of plantnucleotide-binding site-leucine-rich repeat (NBS-LRR) genes. New Phytologist 193: 1049–1063.

Tian D, Wang Q, Zhang P, Araki H, Yang S, Kreitman M, Nagylaki T, Hudson R, Bergelson J & Chen JQ. (2008) Single-nucleotide mutation rate increases close to indels in eukaryotes. Nature 455:105-108