Publications

  • Syed Shujait Ali*, Martin Pfosser, Wolfgang Wetschnig, Yan Yu*. 2012. Historical biogeography reveals the role of dispersal in the shaping of the present disjunct distribution pattern in Urgineoideae clade. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. Accepted
  • Harris AJ, Yan Yu, Steven Manchester, Jenny Xiang. 2012. Accounting for phylogenetic and optimization uncertainty and fossil distribution in biogoegraphic analysis of cornales using statistical dispersal-vicariance analysis software. Manuscript in preparation.
  • Yu Y., AJ Harris, Xingjin He. 2011. A Novel Bayesian Method for Reconstructing Historical Geographic Ranges and Ancestral States on Phylogenies. Systematic Biology. under review.
  • Shujait Ali*; Martin Pfosser; Wolfgang Wetschnig; Yan Yu*. 2011. Historical Biogeography of Subfamily Urgineoideae as Inferred from S-DIVA, Bayesian Binary MCMC and Lagrange Analyses. PLoS ONE. under review.
  • Shujait Ali*, Yan Yu *, Martin Pfosser, and Wolfgang Wetschnig. 2011. Inferences of biogeographical histories within subfamily Hyacinthoideae using S-DIVA and Bayesian MCMC analysis implemented in RASP (Reconstruct Ancestral State in Phylogenies, Annals of Botany. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcr274 (PDF)
  • Yu, Y., S. R. Downie, X. Deng, and X. He. 2011. Phylogeny and biogeography of Chinese Heracleum (Apiaceae tribe Tordylieae) with comments on their fruit morphology. Plant Systematics and Evolution, 296(3-4):179-203.
  • Liao Chenyang, Downie Stephen, Yu Yan, He Xing-Jin. 2011. Historical biogeography of the Angelica group (Apiaceae tribe Selineae) inferred from analyses of nrDNA and cpDNA sequences. Journal of Systematics and Evolution. in press
  • Qin-Qin Li, Song-Dong Zhou, Xing-Jin He, Yan Yu, Yu-Cheng Zhang and Xian-QinWei. 2010. Phylogeny and biogeography of Allium (Amaryllidaceae: Allieae) based on nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer and chloroplast rps16 sequences, focusing on the inclusion of species endemic to China. Annals of Botany 106:709-733
  • Yan Yu, AJ Harris, Xingjin He. 2010. S-DIVA (Statistical Dispersal-Vicariance Analysis): a tool for inferring biogeographic histories. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 56(2):848-850
  • Feng, T., S. R. Downie, Y. Yu, X. Zhang, W. Chen, X. He, S. Liu. 2009. Molecular systematics of Angelica and allied genera (Apiaceae) from the Hengduan Mountains of China based on nrDNA ITS sequences: phylogenetic affinities and biogeographic implications. Journal of Plant Research 122:403-414
  • Yu Yan, Chen Li-Li, He Xing-Jin. 2009. Potential Distributions of Solidago canadensis (Asteraceae)in China as Predicted by GARP. Acta Botanica Yunnanica 31(1):57-62 [in Chinese]
  • Chen Li-Li, Yu Yan, He Xing-Jin. 2008. Historical invasion and expansion process of Alternanthera philoxeroides and its potential spread in China. Biodiversity Science 16(6):578-585 [in Chinese]
  • Qi-Zhi WANG, Xing-Jin HE, Song-Dong ZHOU, Yun-Ke WU, Yan YU, Yun-Li PANG. 2008. Phylogenetic inference of the genus Bupleurum (Apiaceae) in Hengduan Mountains based on chromosome counts and nuclear ribosomal DNA ITS sequences. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 46(2):142-154
  • Heng-Gang Xue, Song-Dong Zhou, Xing-Jin He, Yan Yu. 2007. Molecular Authentication of the Traditional Dai Medicinal Plant Croton caudatus. Planta Med 73(6):611