Representative papers published as first author or corresponding author:

1. A novel freshwater-adapted genus revealed: Integrative taxonomy and biogeography of freshwater razor clams (Bivalvia: Pharidae) in East Asia. Zoologica Scripta. 2025;00:1-17. DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12721.

2. Taxonomic Revision of Fenouilia and Lithoglyphopsis (Gastropoda, Pomatiopsidae): Synonymy Confirmed by Molecular and Morphological Data With New Species From Southern China. Zoologica Scripta. 2025; 0:1-12. https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.70031.

3. Diversity in an ancient lake: taxonomic and phylogenetic insights from eight new freshwater snail species (Triculinae: Pomatiopsidae) of Lake Fuxian, Southwest China. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 2025, 205(2). https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf130.

4. A new genus and two new species of freshwater mussels (Bivalvia, Unionidae) from Sichuan, China: Overlooked cryptic endemism in the upper Yangtze River Basin. Zoosyst. Evol. 2025, 101 (4), 1459–1470. DOI: 10.3897/zse.101.161018.

5. Hidden diversity in China's Sky Islands: Three new freshwater snail species of Erhaiidae (Gastropoda, Truncatelloidea) from the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. Zoosyst. Evol. 2025, 101 (3), 1359–1368. DOI: 10.3897/zse.101.156891.

6. A new genus and species of freshwater mussel from the Pearl River Basin in Guangxi, China (Bivalvia, Unionidae, Gonideinae). Zoosyst. Evol. 2025, 101 (2), 805–812. DOI: 10.3897/zse.101.151802.

7. Fish Diversity Patterns and Their Responses to Environmental Factors in a Global Biodiversity Hotspot. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 2025, 35:1-12. https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.7012.

8. Effects of dams and their environmental impacts on the genetic diversity and connectivity of freshwater mussel populations in Poyang Lake Basin, China. Freshwater Biology. 2020;65(2):264–277.

9. Conservation status assessment and a new method for establishing conservation priorities for freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionida) in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River drainage. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 2020;30:1000-1011.

10. Comparative analyses of the complete mitochondrial genomes of three Lamprotula (Bivalvia: Unionidae) species: insight into the shortcomings of mitochondrial DNA for recently diverged species delimitation. Malacologia. 2020, 63(1): 51–66.

11. Changes and drivers of freshwater mussel diversity patterns in the middle and lower Yangtze River Basin, China. Global Ecology and Conservation. 2020, e00998.

12. Effects of dams and their environmental impacts on the genetic diversity and connectivity of freshwater mussel populations in Poyang Lake Basin, China. Freshwater Biology. 2019. DOI: 10.1111/fwb.13419.

13. Declining freshwater mussel diversity in the middle and lower reaches of the Xin River Basin: Threat and conservation. Ecology and Evolution. 2019. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.5849.

14. Towards a global phylogeny of freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionida): Species elimitation of Chinese taxa, mitochondrial phylogenomics, and diversification patterns. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 2019;130:45–59.

15. Testing the utility of DNA barcodes and a preliminary phylogenetic framework for Chinese freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionidae) from the middle and lower Yangtze River. PLoS ONE. 2018,13(8).

16. Reclassification of Lamprotula rochechouartii as Margaritifera rochechouartii comb. nov. (Bivalvia: Margaritiferidae) revealed by time-calibrated multi-locus phylogenetic analyses and mitochondrial phylogenomics of Unionoida. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 2018;120: 297-306.

17. Microsatellite analysis of genetic diversity and genetic structure of the Chinese freshwater mussel Solenaia carinata (Bivalvia: Unionidae). Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 2018;28(1): 37-44.

18. Reproductive traits of nine freshwater mussel species (Mollusca: Unionidae) from Poyang Lake, China. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 2018. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyy016.

19. Biodiversity decline of fish assemblages after the impoundment of the Three Gorges Dam in the Yangtze River Basin, China. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries. 2019.

20. Distribution and species diversity of freshwater bivalves in lakes of the middle and lower Yangtze River Basin. 2000. Journal of Lake Sciences, 12(2):1–8. (in Chinese)

21. A comparative morphological study on the glochidia of Unionidae I: Larval morphology of four species. 1999. Acta Hydrobiologica Sinica, 23(2): 140–145. (in Chinese)

Population ecology studies on Corbicula fluminea and Corbicula fluminalis. 1991. Proceedings of Conchology, (3): 61–67. (in Chinese)