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The Group of Hong-Zhi Kong: Evolutionary
Developmental Genetics and Regulatory Genomics
Members Address Education
Professional Experience
Areas of Interest
Grants
Selected publications
中文
Address:
Research Center for Systematic and Evolutionary Botany
Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences
20 Nanxincun, Xiangshan
Beijing 100093, China
Tel: 86-10-62836489; Fax: 86-10-62590843
E-mail: hzkong@ibcas.ac.cn;
hongzhi_kong@hotmail.com ^^ top ^^
Education:
2000.7 Ph. D., Botany; Institute of Botany,
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China
1995.7 B. S., Botany; Department of Biology,
Northwest university, China
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Professional Experience:
2007.07-present Principle
Investigator (PI); Research Group for Evo-Devo and Regulatory
Genomics, Institute
of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
2006.12-present
Professor; Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
China
2003.10-2006.12 Associate
Professor; Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
China
2006.06-2008.08 Advanced Visiting Scholar;
Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, USA
(collaborator: Masatoshi Nei)
2002.04-2004.10 Visiting
Postdoctoral Scholar; Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State
University, USA (advisors: Hong Ma and Claude W. dePamphilis)
2000.08-2003.08 Assistant Professor;
Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China ^^ top ^^
Areas of Interest:
Evolutionary Developmental Genetics (Evo-Devo); Regulatory Genomics;
Bioinformatics; Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetics; Molecular
Biogeography;
Basal Angiosperms; Basal Eudicots; Chloranthaceae; Ranunculaceae. ^^ top ^^
Grants:
Genetic Controls and Molecular Mechanisms for the Development and
Evolution of the Flower; CAS Grant for Knowledge Innovation,
2007.01-2010.12
Evolutionary Developmental Biology (Evo-Devo) of the Flowers in
Basal Eudicots; IBCAS Grant for Scientific Frontiers,
2006.01-2008.12
Evolution of A-, B-, C, and E-Classes of Plant MADS-box Genes from
Basal Eudicots; NSFC, 2006.01-2009.12
Functional and Evolutionary Study of Five MADS-box Genes from
Chloranthus spicatus (Chloranthaceae); NSFC, 2005.01-2007.12
Phylogeny and Molecular Biogeography of the Chloranthaceae; NSFC,
2002.01-2004.12
Development and Evolution of the Simplest Flowers in Angiosperms;
NSFC, 2002.01-2002.12 ^^ top ^^
Selected publications (*
Corresponding author):
(24)
Xu G., Ma H., Nei M., Kong H.*. Evolution of F-box genes in
plants: different modes of sequence divergence and their
relationships with functional diversification. Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences USA (in press;
*corresponding authors)
(23)
Su K., Zhao S., Shan H., Kong H., Lu W., Theissen G., Chen Z., Meng Z..
2008. The MIK region rather than the C-terminal domain of AP3-like class B
floral homeotic proteins determines functional specificity in the development
and evolution of petals. New Phytologist
178: 544-558 [PDF]
(22)
Quan L., Xiao R., Li W., Oh S.-A., Kong H., Ambrose J. C., Malcos J. L.,
Cyr R., Twell D., Ma H. 2008. Functional divergence of the duplicated
Arabidopsis ATK5 and ATK1 genes: critical roles in meiosis and
gametophyte development. The Plant Journal 53: 1013-1026 [PDF]
(21)
Zhu X.-Y., Chase M. W., Qiu Y.-L., Kong H.-Z., Dilcher D. L., Li J.-H.,
Chen Z.-D. 2007. Mitochondrial matR sequences help to resolve deep
phylogenetic relationships in rosids. BMC Evolutionary Biology 7: 217
[PDF]
(20) Kong H.*, Landherr L. L., Frohlich M. W., Leebens-Mack J., Ma H., dePamphilis C. W.*, 2007.
Patterns of gene duplication in the plant SKP1 gene family in angiosperms:
evidence for multiple mechanisms of rapid gene birth. The Plant Journal 50:
873-885
(*corresponding authors) [PDF]
(19)
Shan H., Zhang N., Liu C., Xu G., Zhang J., Chen Z.*, Kong H.*, 2007.
Patterns of gene duplication and functional diversification during the evolution
of the AP1/SQUA subfamily of plant MADS-box genes. Molecular Phylogenetics
and Evolution 44: 26-41 (*corresponding authors) [PDF]
(18) Xu G., Kong H.*, 2007. Duplication and divergence of
floral MADS-box genes in grasses: evidence for the generation and modification
of novel regulators. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology 49 (6): 760-768 (*corresponding author)
[PDF]
(17) Shan H., Su K., Lu W., Kong H., Chen Z.,
Meng Z. 2006. Conservation and divergence of candidate class B genes
in Akebia trifoliata (Lardizabalaceae). Development Genes and Evolution 216:
785-795 [PDF]
(16) Lin Z., Kong H., Nei M.,
Ma H. 2006. Origins and evolution of the recA/RAD51 gene family: Evidence for ancient
gene duplication and symbiotic gene transfer. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 103: 10328-10333
[PDF]
(15) Zahn L. M.*, Kong H.*, Leebens-Mack J. H., Kim S.,
Soltis P. S., Landherr L. L., Soltis D. E., dePamphilis C. W., Ma H. 2005. The Evolution of the
SEPALLATA
subfamily of MADS-box genes: A pre-angiosperm origin with multiple duplications
throughout angiosperm history. Genetics 169: 2209-2223 (*co-first
authors)
[PDF]
(14) Kim S., Koh J., Yoo M.-J., Kong H., Hu Y., Ma H., Soltis P. S.,
Soltis D. E. 2005. Expression of floral MADS-box genes in basal angiosperms: Implication for
the evolution of floral regulators. The Plant Journal 43:
724-744
[PDF]
(13) Li G.-S., Meng Z., Kong
H.-Z., Chen Z.-D., Theissen G., Lu A.-M. 2005. Characterization of candidate
class A, B, and E floral homeotic gene from the perianthless basal angiosperm Chloranthus spicatus (Chloranthaceae).
Development
Genes and Evolution 215 (9): 437-449
[PDF]
(12) Soltis D. E., Albert
V. A., Kim S., Yoo M.-J. , Soltis P. S., Frohlich M. W., Leebens-Mack J., Kong H., Wall K., Ma H., dePamphilis
C.W. 2005. Evolution of the Flower. In Diversity and Evolution of Plants, Ed. R. Henry. CABI Publishers pp. 165-200
(11) Kong H., Leebens-Mack J., Ni W., dePamphilis
C. W., Ma H. 2004. Highly
heterogeneous rates of evolution in the SKP1
gene family in plants and animals: Functional and evolutionary implications.
Molecular Biology and Evolution 21:
117-128 [PDF]
(10) Wang G.*, Kong H.*,
Sun Y.*, Zhang X., Zhang W., Altman N., dePamphilis C. W., Ma H. 2004. Genome-wide analysis of the cyclin
family in Arabidopsis and comparative
phylogenetic analysis of plant cyclin-like proteins. Plant Physiology 135: 1084-1099 (*co-first authors)
[PDF]
(9) Zhang
F.-M., Kong H.-Z., Ge S., 2003.
Allozyme variation and population differentiation of the Aconitum delavayi
complex in the Hengduan Mountains of China. Biochemical Genetics 41: 47-55
[PDF]
(8) Kong H.-Z., Chen Z.-D., Lu A.-M. 2002. Phylogenetic relationships within Chloranthus Sw. (Chloranthaceae) based
on nuclear ITS and plastid trnL-F
sequence data. American Journal of
Botany 89 (6): 940-946
[PDF]
(7) Kong H.-Z., Lu A.-M., Endress P. K. 2002.
Floral organogenesis of Chloranthus sessilifolius
K. F. Wu (Chloranthaceae) with special emphasis on the morphological nature of
the androecium of Chloranthus Sw. Plant Systematics and Evolution 232: 181-188
[PDF]
(6) Kong H.-Z. 2001. Comparative morphology of
leaf epidermis of the Chloranthaceae. Botanical
Journal of the Linnean Society 136: 281-296 [PDF]
(5) Kong H.-Z. 2000. Karyotypes of Sarcandra Gardn. and
Chloranthus Sw. (Chloranthaceae) from China.
Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society
132: 327-342 [PDF]
(4) Kong H.-Z., Chen Z.-D. 2000. Phylogeny in Chloranthus Swartz (Chloranthaceae) inferred
from sequence analysis of nrDNA ITS region. Acta Botanica Sinica 42 (7): 762-764
[PDF]
(3) Kong H.-Z. 2000. Taxonomic notes on Chloranthus henryi Hemsl. and its
allies. Acta Phytotaxonomica Sinica
38 (4): 355-365
[PDF]
(2) Kong H.-Z., Liu J.-Q. 1999. Karyomorphology
of the genus Pomatosace Maxim. (Primulaceae). Acta Phytotaxonomica Sinica 37 (5):
445-450
[PDF]
(1) Kong H.-Z., Yang Q.-E. 1997. Karyomorphology
and relationships of the genus Circaeaster
Maxim. Acta Phytotaxonomica Sinica 35 (6): 494-499
[PDF]
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