| State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany |
| Institute of Botany,Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| 20 Nanxincun, Xiangshan, |
| Beijing 100093, P. R. China. |
| Email: wangwei1127@ibcas.ac.cn |
Education
2002-2007 Ph.D. in Botany
Institute ofBotany, ChineseAcademyofSciences,Beijing
1998-2002 B.S. in Biology
Department of Biology,YunnanUniversity, Kunmin, P. R. China
Research Interests:
My current research interests are systematics and evolution of Ranunculales and other important flowering plants, including reconstruction of phylogenetic relationships using a range of experimental approaches, particularly DNA and morphological data, and investigation of temporal and spatial patterns of the diversification by using an integration of phylogenetic, biogeographic and molecular dating methods.
Grants
Phylogeny and diversification of Menispermacesae: Implications for the origin and evolution of modern tropical rainforests; NSFC, 2015.01-2018.12
Youth Innovation Promotion Association Foundation of CAS; 2014.01-2017.12
Phylogeny and diversification of the Ranunculaceae: Ecological opportunities and key innovations; NSFC, 2013.01-2016.12
Phylogeny of the rapidly radiative Ranunculoideae; NSFC, 2009.01-2011.12
Publications (§co-first author, *corresponding author):
69. Wang W*, Liu Y. 2020. The current status, problems, and policy suggestions for reconstructing the plant tree of life. Biodiversity Science DOI: 10.17520/biods.2019373.
68. Lian L, Ortiz RDC, Jabbour F, Chen ZD, Wang W*. 2019. Re-delimitation of Tinospora Miers (Menispermaceae): Implications for character evolution and historical biogeography. Taxon 68: 905-917.
67. Cui YM§, Wang W§, Ferguson D, Yang J, Wang YF. Evidence reveals how plant taxa responded to the cooling across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary. BMC Plant Biology 19: 402.
66. Xiang XG, Xiang KL, Ortiz RDC, Jabbour F, Wang W*. 2019. Integrating palaeontological and molecular data reveals ancient and recent dispersal patterns in the pantropical Hamamelidaceae. Journal of Biogeography 46: 2622-2631.
65. Verkhozina AV, Belous VN, Chernysheva OA, Ebel AL, Erst AS, Friesen NV, Iuzhakova MA, Kuznetsov AA, Luferov AN, Murashko VV, Murtazaliev RA, Ovchinnikova SV, Wang W, Zavgorodnyaya OY, Andrey Yu. Korolyuk AY, Stepan A. Senator SA, Evgenii G. Zibzeev EG, Vasjukov VM, Krivenko DA. 2019. Findings to the flora of Russia and adjacent countries: New national and regional vascular plant records, 1. Botanica Pacifica 8: 143–154.
64. Lian L, Xiang KL, Ortiz RDC*, Wang W*. 2019. A multi-locus phylogeny for the Neotropical Anomospermeae (Menispermaceae): Implications for taxonomy and biogeography. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 136: 44-52.
63. Erst A, Luferov A, Troshkina, V, Shaulo D, Kuznetsov A, Xiang, KL, Wang W. 2019. Trollius austrosibiricus (Ranunculaceae), a new species from South Siberia. PhytoKeys 115: 83-92.
62. Nobis M, Klichowska E, Terlević A, Wróbel A, Erst A, Hrivnák R, Ebel A, Tikhomirov V, Byalt V, Gudkova P, Kiraly G, Kipriyanova LM, Olonova M, Piwowarczyk R, Pliszko A, Rosadziński S, Seregin AP, Honcharenko V, Marciniuk J, Marciniuk P, Oklejewicz K, Wolanin M, Batlai O, Bubíková K, Choi HJ, Dzhus M, Kochjarová J, Molnár AV, Nobis A, Nowak A, Oťaheľová H,Óvári M, Shimko I, Shukherdorj B, Gábor S, Toroshkina V, Verkhozina A, Wang W, Xiang KL, Zykova E. 2019. Contribution to the flora of Asian and European countries: new national and regional vascular plant records, 8. Botany Letters 166: 163-188.
61. Wu SD, Zhang LJ*, Lin L, Yu SX, Chen ZD, Wang W*. 2018. Insights into the historical assembly of global dryland floras: the diversification of Zygophyllaceae. BMC Evolutionary Biology 18: 166.
60. Wang Q, Wu S, Su X, Zhang L, Xu X, Lyu L, Cai H, Shrestha N, Liu Y, Wang W*, Wang Z*. 2018. Niche conservatism and elevated diversification shape species diversity in drylands: evidence from Zygophyllaceae. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 285: 20181742.
59. Xiang KL, Erst AS, Xiang XG, Jabbour F, Wang W*. 2018. Biogeography of Coptis Salisb. (Ranunculales, Ranunculaceae, Coptidoideae), an eastern Asian and North American genus. BMC Evolutionary Biology 18: 74.
58. Wang W*. 2018. A primer to the use of herbarium specimens in plant phylogenetics. Botany Letters 165: 404-408.
57. Shemetova T, Erst A, Wang W, Xiang KL, Vural C, Aytaç Z. 2018. Seed morphology of the genus Astragalus L. from North Asia. Turkish Journal of Botany 42: 710-721.
56. Erst AS, Mitrenina EY, Sukhorukov AP, Kuznetsov AA, Kuzmin IV, Luferov AN, Xiang KL, Wang W. 2018. Asteraceae, Caryophyllaceae, Kewaceae, Ranunculaceae, Rosaceae, Violaceae. In: Marhold K, Kučera J (eds.), IAPT chromosome data 27. Taxon 67: 1042-1043, E6-E8.
55. Luferov AN, Erst AS, Luferov AN, Shmakov AI, Wang W. 2018. The genus Trollius (Ranunculaceae) in the Russian Far East. Turczaninowia 21: 110-116.
54. Chen Y, Jabbour F, Novikov A, Wang W, Gerber S. 2018. A study of floral shape variation in Delphinieae (Ranunculaceae) using geometric morphometrics on herbarium specimens. Botany Letters 165: 368-376.
53. Nobis M, Domina G, Meco M, Mullaj A, Bazan G, Ebel AL, Király G, Erst A, Nowak A, Sukhorukov AP, Pospelova EB, Pospelov IN, Vasjukov VM, Piwowarczyk R, Seregin AP, Király A, Kushunina M, Liu B, Molnár AV, Olonova M, Ovári M, Paszko B, Chen YS, Verkhozina AV, Zykova EY, Klichowska E, Nobis A, Wróbel A, Aydin ZU, Donmez AA, Garakhani P, Koopman J, Korolyuk A, Oklejewicz K, Qasimova T, Wang W, Wieclaw H, Wolanin M, Xiang KL. 2018. Contribution to the flora of Asian and European countries: new national and regional vascular plant records, 7. Botany Letters 165: 200-222.
52. Lu LM, Cox CJ, Mathews S, Wang W, Wen J, Chen ZD. 2018. Optimal data partitioning and multispecies coalescent approaches resolve deep-level phylogenetic incompatibility in the grape family (Vitaceae). Cladistics 34: 57-77.
51. Erst AS, Kuzmin IV, Mitrenina EY, An’kova TV, Xiang KL, Wang W. 2017. Aceraceae, Amaranthaceae, Asparagaceae, Asteraceae, Brassicaceae, Caryophyllaceae, Cucurbitaceae, Fabaceae, Iridaceae, Juncaceae, Phytolaccaceae, Plantaginaceae, Polygonaceae, Ranunculaceae, Scrophulariaceae, Solanaceae. In: Marhold K, Kucera J (eds.), IAPT/IOPB chromosome data 23. Taxon 66: 1247-1248, E11-E12.
50. Erst AS, Wang W, Yu SX, Xiang KL, Wang J, Shaulo DN, Smirnov SV, Kushunina M, Sukhorukov AP, Nobis M. 2017. Two new species and four new records of Aquilegia (Ranunculaceae) from China. Phytotaxa 316: 121-137.
49. Espinosa F, Deroin T, Xiang KL, Wang W, Castro MP, Byng JW, Aytac Z, Nadot S, Jabbour F. 2017. The Turkish endemic Pseudodelphinium turcicum (Ranunculaceae): an unusual population of Delphinium with peloric flowers that has persisted in the wild for 20 years. International Journal of Plant Sciences 178: 546-555.
48. Xiang KL, Aytac Z, Liu Y, Espinosa F, Jabbour F, Byng JW, Zhang CF, Erst AS, Wang W*. 2017. Recircumscription of Delphinium subg. Delphinium (Ranunculaceae) and implications for its biogeography. Taxon 66: 554-566.
47. Wang W, Zhang XX, Chen ZD, Lu AM. 2017. Comments on the APG’s classification of angiosperms. Biodiversity Science 25: 418-426.
46. Nobis M, Erst A, Nowak A, Shaulo D, Olonova M, Kotukhov Y, Dogru-Koca A, Donmez AA, Király G, Ebel AL, Kushunina M, Piwowarczyk R, Sukhorukov AP, Nobis A, Verloove F, Zalewska-Galosz J, Zare G, Burri JF, Cakovic D, Jedrzejczak E, JoganN, Klichowska E, Pliszko A, Popovich AV, Stesevic D, Silc U, Tupitsyna N, Vasjukov VM, Wang W, Werner P, Wolanin MN, Wolanin MM, Xiang KL. 2017. Contribution to the flora of Asian and European countries: new national and regional vascular plant records, 6. Botany Letters 164: 23-45.
45. Wang W*, Ortiz RDC, Jacques FMB, Liu Y, Xiang XG, Yu SX, Chen ZD. 2017. New insights into the phylogeny of Burasaieae (Menispermaceae) with the recognition of a new genus and emphasis on the southern Taiwanese and mainland Chinese disjunction. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 109: 11-20.
44. Xiang KL, Zhao L, Erst AS, Yu SX, Jabbour F, Wang W*. 2017. A molecular phylogeny of Dichocarpum (Ranunculaceae): Implications for eastern Asian biogeography. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 107: 594-604.
43. Ortiz RDC§,*, Wang W§,*, Jacques FMBC§, Chen ZD. 2016. Phylogeny and a revised tribal classification of Menispermaceae based on molecular and morphological data. Taxon 65: 1288-1312.
42. Chartier M, Dressler S, Schonenberger J, Mora AR, Sarthou C, Wang W, Jabbour F. 2016. The evolution of afro-montane Delphinium (Ranunculaceae): Morphospecies, phylogenetics, and biogeography. Taxon 65: 1313-1327.
41. Erst AS, Kuzmin IV, Mitrenina EY, Xiang KL, Wang W. 2016. Apiaceae, Asteraceae, Caryophyllaceae, Fabaceae, Hypericaceae, Papaveraceae, Poaceae, Ranunculaceae, Solanaceae. In: Marhold K, Kucera J (eds.), IAPT/IOPB chromosome data 23. Taxon 65: 1455-1456, E5-E6.
40. Wang W*, Lin L, Xiang XG, Ortiz RDC, Liu Y, Xiang KL, Yu SX, Xing YW, Chen ZD*. 2016. The rise of angiosperm-dominated herbaceous floras: Insights from Ranunculaceae. Scientific Reports 6: 27259.
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39. Xiang KL, Wu SD, Yu SX, Liu Y, Jabbour F, Erst AS, Zhao L, Wang W*, Chen ZD. 2016. The first comprehensive phylogeny of Coptis (Ranunculaceae) and its implications for character evolution and classification. PLoS One 11: e0153127.
38. Yu SX, Janssens SB, Zhu XY, Lidén M, Gao TG, Wang W*. 2016. Phylogeny of Impatiens (Balsaminaceae): Integrating molecular and morphological evidence into a new classification. Cladistics 32: 179-197.
37. Wang W, Dilcher DL, Sun G, Wang HS, Chen ZD. 2016. Accelerated evolution of early angiosperms: Evidence from ranunculalean phylogeny by integrating living and fossil data. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 54: 336-341.
36. Li HL, Wang W, Li RQ, Zhang JB, Sun M, Su JX, Xiang XG, Mortimer PE, Li DZ, Hyde KD, Xu JC, Soltis DE, Soltis PS, Li JH, Zhang SZ, Wu H, Chen ZD, Lu AM. Global versus Chinese perspectives on the phylogeny of the N-fixing clade. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 54: 392-399
35. Chen ZD, Yang T, Lin L, Lu LM, Li HL, Sun M, Liu B, Chen M, Niu YT, Ye JF, Cao ZY, Liu HM, Wang XM, Wang W, Zhang JB, Meng Z, Cao W, Li JH, Wu SD, Zhao HL, Liu ZJ, Du ZY, Wang QF, Guo J, Tan XX, Su JX, Zhang LJ, Yang LL, Liao YY, Li MH, Zhang GQ, Chung SW, Zhang J, Xiang KL, Li RQ, Soltis DE, Soltis PS,Zhou SL, Ran JH,Wang XQ, Jin XH, Chen YS, Gao TG, Li JH, Zhang SZ, Lu AM, and China Phylogeny Consortium. 2016. Tree of life for the genera of Chinese vascular plants. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 54: 277-306.
34. Lin L, Tang L, Bai YJ, Tang ZY, Wang W*, Chen ZD. 2015. Range expansion and habitat shift triggered elevated diversification of the rice genus (Oryza, Poaceae) in the Pleistocene. BMC Evolutionary Biology 15: 182.
33. Wu SD, Lin L, Li HL, Yu SX, Zhang LJ*, Wang W*. 2015. Evolution of Asian interior arid-zone biota: Evidence from the diversification of Asian Zygophyllum (Zygophyllaceae). PLoS One 10: e013869.
32. Li HL§, Wang W§, Mortimer PE, Li RQ, Li DZ, Hyde KD, Xu JC, Soltis DE, Chen ZD. 2015. Large-scale phylogenetic analyses reveal multiple gains of actinorhizal nitrogen-fixing symbioses in angiosperms associated with climate change. Scientific Reports 5: 14023.
31. Xiang XG*, Wang W*. 2015. Plant DNA barcodes: implications for phylogenetics. Biodiversity Science 23: 281-282.
30. Liu Y, Cox CJ, Wang W, Goffinet B. 2014. Mitochondrial phylogenomics of early land plants: mitigating the effects of saturation, compositional heterogeneity, and codon usage bias. Systematic Biology 63: 862-878.
29. Wang W*, Li HL, Xiang XG, Chen ZD. 2014. Revisiting the phylogeny of Ranunculeae: Implications for divergence time estimation and historical biogeography. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 52: 551-565.
28. Xiang XG§, Wang W§, Li RQ, Lin L, Liu Y, Zhou ZK, Li ZY, Chen ZD. 2014. Large-scale phylogenetic analyses reveal fagalean diversification promoted by the interplay of diaspores and environments in the Paleogene. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 16: 101-110.
27. Wang W*, Li HL, Chen ZD. 2014. The analysis of plastid and nuclear DNA data in plant phylogenetics — Evaluation and improvement. SCIENCE CHINA Life Sciences 57: 280-286.
26. Li HL, Wang W*, Lin L, Zhu XY, Li JH, Zhu XY, Chen ZD. 2013. Diversification of the phaseoloid legumes: Effects of climate change, range expansion and habit shift. Frontiers in Plant Science 4: 386.
25. Wang W*, Liu Y, Yu SX, Gao TG, Chen ZD. 2013. Gymnaconitum, a new genus of Ranunculaceae endemic to the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Taxon 62: 713-722.
24. Zhang JB, Li RQ, Xiang XG, Manchester SR, Lin L, Wang W, Wen J, Chen ZD. 2013. Integrated fossil and molecular data reveals the biogeographic diversification of the eastern Asia - North American disjunct hickory genus (Carya Nutt.). PLoS One 8: e70449.
23. Lu LM, Wang W, Chen ZD, Wen J. 2013. Phylogeny of the non-monophyletic Cayratia Juss. (Vitaceae) and implications for character evolution and biogeography. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 68: 502-515.
22. Wang W§, Jacques FMB§, Ortiz RDC§, Xiang XG, Li HL, Lin L, Li QR, Liu Y, Soltis PS, Soltis DE, Zhou ZK, Chen ZD. 2012. Menispermaceae and the diversification of tropical rainforests near the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary. New Phytologist 195: 470-478.
21. Su JX§, Wang W§, Zhang LB, Chen ZD. 2012. Phylogenetic placements of two enigmatic genera, 
Borthwickia and Stixis, based on molecular and pollen data and description of a new family of Brassicales, Borthwickiaceae. Taxon 61: 601-611.
20. Zhao L, Wang W, Ren Y, Bachelier JB. 2012. Floral development in Asteropyrum (Ranunculaceae): Implication for its systematic position. Annales Botanici Fennici 49: 31-42
19. Zhao, Y.M, Wang W, Zhang, SR. 2012. Delimitation and phylogeny of Aletris (Nartheciaceae) and its implication for perianth evolution. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 50: 135-145.
18. Jacques FMB§, Wang W§, Ortiz RDC§, Li HL, Zhou ZK, Chen ZD. 2011. Integrating fossils in a molecular-based phylogeny and testing them as calibration points for divergence time estimates in Menispermaceae. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 49: 25-49.
17. Xiang XG, Hu H, Wang W, Jin XH. 2011. DNA barcoding of the recently evolved genus Holcoglossum (Orchidaceae: Aeridinae): A test of DNA barcode candidates. Molecular Ecology Resources 11: 1012-1021.
16. Zhao L, Liu P, Che XF, Wang W, Ren Y. 2011. Floral organogenesis of Helleborus thibetanus and Nigella damascena (Ranunculaceae) and its systematic significance. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 166: 431-443.
15. Wang W, Hu H., Xiang XG, Yu SX, Chen ZD. 2010. Phylogenetic placements of Calathodes and Megaleranthis (Ranunculaceae): Evidence from molecular and morphological data. Taxon 59: 1712-1720.
14. Liu HM, Zhang XC, Wang W, Zeng H. 2010. Molecular phylogeny of the endemic fern genera Cyrtomidictyum and Cyrtogonellum (Dryopteridaceae) from East Asia. Organisms Diversity & Evolution 10: 57-68.
13. Wang W, Lu AM, Ren Y, Endress ME, Chen ZD. 2009. Phylogeny and classification of Ranunculales: Evidence from four molecular loci and morphological data. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 11: 81-110.
12. Gao TG, Wang W, Bayer RJ, Li DZ. 2008. Systematic position of the enigmatic genus Sheareria (Asteraceae) — evidence from molecular, morphological and cytological data. Taxon 59: 769-780.
11. Liu Y, Jia Y, Wang W, Chen ZD, Davis EC, Qiu, YL. 2008. Phylogenetic relationship of two endemic genera from East Asia: Trichocoleopsis and Neotrichocolea (Hepaticae). Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 95: 459-470.
10. Wang W, Chen ZD, Liu Y, Li RQ, Li JH. 2007. Phylogenetic and biogeographic diversification of Berberidaceae in the Northern Hemisphere. Systematic Botany 32: 731-742.
9. Wang W, Chen ZD. 2007. Generic level phylogeny of Thalictroideae (Ranunculaceae) — implications for the taxonomic status of Paropyrum and petal evolution. Taxon 56: 811-821.
8. Wang W, Wang HC, Chen ZD. 2007. Phylogeny and morphological evolution of tribe Menispermeae (Menispermaceae) inferred from chloroplast and nuclear sequences. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 8: 141-154.
7. Ding KY, Wang W, Sun JX, Wang YH. 2007. The Chromosome variation of Barnardia japonica polyploid complex uncovered by Giemsa-C banding. Journal of Wuhan Botanical Research 25: 421-426.
6. Liu HM, Zhang XC, Wang W, Qiu YL, Chen ZD. 2007. Molecular phylogeny of the fern family Dryopteridaceae inferred from chloroplast rbcL and atpB genes. International Journal of Plant Sciences 168: 1311-1323.
5. Wang HC, Meng AP, Li JQ, Feng M, Chen ZD, Wang W. 2006. Floral organogenesis of Cocculus orbiculatus and Stephania dielsiana (Menispermaceae). International Journal of Plant Sciences 167: 951-960.
4. Wang W, Li RQ, Chen ZD. 2005. Systematic position of Asteropyrum (Ranunculaceae) inferred from chloroplast and nuclear sequences. Plant Systematics and Evolution 255: 41-54.
3. Liu Y, Jia Y, Wang W, Chen ZD, Qiu YL. 2005. A taxonomic reassessment of Microdendron inferred from molecular and morphological evidence. The Bryologist 108: 591-599.
2. Ding K, Wang W, Long Q, Li B, Wang BY. 2005. Supplemental cytogeographical studies on the Scilla sinensis (Louriro) Merrill complex in China. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology 47: 513-523.
1. Ding KY, Sun JX, Wang W, Wang BY, Wang YH. 2005. Multicytotypic populations of Scilla scilloides polyploid complex found in Jiangxi, China. Acta Botanica Yunnanica 27: 501-508.
