2025

(1)Chang-Wang Ma, Dan Xie, Hong Du, Kai-Yuan Huang, Yuan-Yuan Feng, Zhou-Rui Wei, Xin-Quan Liu, Cheng-Ru Li, Jing-Jing Sun, Xiao-Xin Wei, Zhi-Heng Wang, Wei-Hua Xu, Xiao-Quan Wang*, Jin-Hua Ran*. 2025. Tree of life and conservation of gymnosperms in China. Science China Life Sciences (Accepted).

(2)Kai-Yuan Huang, Yuan-Yuan Feng, Hong Du, Chang-Wang Ma, Dan Xie, Tao Wan, Xiu-Yan Feng, Xiao-Gang Dai, Tong-Ming Yin, Xiao-Quan Wang*, Jin-Hua Ran*. 2025. DNA methylation dynamics in gymnosperm duplicate genes: implications for genome evolution and stress adaptation. Plant Journal, 121: e70006.

(3)Wen-Di Zhang, Yan-Yan Liu, Man-Man Li, Hong Du, Kai-Yuan Huang, Yuan-Yuan Feng, Chang-Wang Ma, Xiao-Xin Wei, Xiao-Quan Wang, Jin-Hua Ran*. 2025. Decoding endosperm endophytes in Pinus armandi: A crucial indicator for host response to climate change. BMC Microbiology, 25: 239.

(4)Dan Xie, Tian-Xiang Chen, Hong Du, Hui Wu, Jin-Hua Ran*. 2025. Gymnosperm collecting in China: Past, present, and future. Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 63: 479-491.

2024

(5)Yuan-Yuan Feng, Hong Du, Kai-Yuan Huang, Jin-Hua Ran*, Xiao-Quan Wang*. 2024. Reciprocal expression of MADS-box genes and DNA methylation reconfiguration initiate bisexual cones in spruce. Communications Biology, 7: 114.

2022

(6)Kai-Yuan Huang, Sheng-Long Kan, Ting-Ting Shen, Pin Gong, Yuan-Yuan Feng, Hong Du, Yun-Peng Zhao, Tao Wan, Xiao-Quan Wang, Jin-Hua Ran*. 2022. A comprehensive evolutionary study of chloroplast RNA editing in gymnosperms: A novel type of G‐to‐A RNA editing is common in gymnosperms. International Journal of Molecular Science, 23: 10844.

(7)Dan Xie, Hong Du, Wei-Hua Xu, Jin-Hua Ran*, Xiao-Quan Wang. 2022. Effects of climate change on richness distribution patterns of threatened conifers endemic to China. Ecological Indicators, 136: 108594.

(8)Yuan-Yuan Feng, Ting-Ting Shen, Cheng-Cheng Shao, Hong Du, Jin-Hua Ran*, Xiao-Quan Wang*. 2021. Phylotranscriptomics reveals the complex evolutionary and biogeographic history of the genus Tsuga with an East Asian-North American disjunct distribution. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 157: 107066.

2020

(9)Hong Du, Jin-Hua Ran, Yuan-Yuan Feng, Xiao-Quan Wang*. 2020. The flattened and needlelike leaves of the pine family (Pinaceae) share a conserved genetic network for adaxial-abaxial polarity but have diverged for photosynthetic adaptation. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 20: 131.