Publications

Haoxuan Liu, Mengyi Sun, and Jianzhi Zhang. Genomic estimates of mutation and substitution rates contradict the evolutionary speed hypothesis of the latitudinal diversity gradient. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, rspb.2023.1787 (2023)

Before joining Zhejiang University

1.    Haoxuan Liu and Jianzhi Zhang. Is the mutation rate lower in genomic regions of stronger selective constraints? Molecular Biology and Evolution, 39:msac169. (2022) 

2.    Haoxuan Liu and Jianzhi Zhang. Testing the adaptive hypothesis of lagging-strand encoding in bacterial genomes. Nature Communications, 13:2728. (2022) (Matters Arising) 

3.    Haoxuan Liu and Jianzhi Zhang. Mutation rate and spectrum are selectively maintained in yeast. Nature Communications, 12:4044. (2021) 

4.    Haoxuan Liu and Jianzhi Zhang. Higher germline mutagenesis of genes with stronger testis expressions refutes the transcriptional scanning hypothesis. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 37:3225-3231. (2020) 

5.    Haoxuan Liu and Jianzhi Zhang. Yeast spontaneous mutation rate and spectrum vary with environment. Current Biology, 29:1584-1591. (2019) 

6.    Haoxuan Liu, Calum J. Maclean, and Jianzhi Zhang. Evolution of the yeast recombination landscape. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 36:412-422. (2019) 

7.    Haoxuan Liu, Ju Huang, Xiaoguang Sun, Jing Li, Yingwen Hu, Luyao Yu, Gianni Liti, DachengTian, Laurence D. Hurst, Sihai Yang. Tetrad analysis in plants and fungi finds large differences in gene conversion rates but no GC bias. Nature Ecology & Evolution 2, 164–173 (2018) 

8.    Haoxuan Liu, Yanxiao Jia, Xiaoguang Sun, Dacheng Tian, Laurence Hurst, Sihai Yang. Direct Determination of the Mutation Rate in the Bumblebee Reveals Evidence for Weak Recombination-Associated Mutation and an Approximate Rate Constancy in Insects. Molecular Biology and Evolution: msw226 (2017) 

9.    Haoxuan Liu, Xiaohui Zhang, Ju Huang, Jianqun Chen, Dacheng Tian, Laurence Hurst, Sihai Yang. Causes and Consequences of Crossing-over Evidenced via a High-Resolution Recombinational Landscape of the Honey Bee. Genome Biology 16(1) (2015) 

10. Haoxuan Liu, Zhengqing Xie, Shengjun Tan, Xiaohui Zhang, and Sihai Yang.     Relationship between Amino Acid Usage and Amino Acid Evolution in Primates. Gene 557(2): 182–187 (2015)

11. Haoxuan Liu, Yuhang Xing, Sihai Yang, and Dacheng Tian. Remarkable Difference of Somatic Mutation Patterns between Oncogenes and Tumor Suppressor Genes. Oncology Reports 26(6): 1539–1546 (2011)

12. Lina Zhao, Qijun Zhang, Rongchao Gao, Sihai Yang, Haoxuan Liu* and Xiaohui Zhang*. High Genetic Abundance of Rpi-blb2/Mi-1.2/Cami Gene Family in Solanaceae. BMC Evolutionary Biology 15: 215. (2015) (*co-corresponding author)

13. Sihai Yang, Yang Yuan , Long Wang L, … Haoxuan Liu, … Laurence Hurst, Dacheng Tian. Great majority of recombination events in Arabidopsis are gene conversion events. PNAS 109 :20992-20997(2012)