Tao Shi
scotty323@email.arizona.edu
Education
M.S., Wuhan Botanical Garden / South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2007-2010
B.S., Huazhong Agricultural University, 2003-2007
Research Interests
My interest is about how gene (and genome) duplication and hybrization contributed to plant speciation. The gene expression level changes or phenotypic changes soon (or long) after gene duplications, genome duplications, gene loss, and hybridization are significant and common in the plant kindom. By using experimental, bioinformatic and phylogenetic approaches combining with paleoclimatic data, I try to elucidate when those changes occured, what the change patterns like in different related groups, and how those subsequent gene expression or phenotypic changes are responsible for specific adaptation and speciation. My research currently focuses on a specific group--genus Actinidia (kiwifruit) and its related genera or families in Ericales.
Publications
Shi, T., H. Huang, and M. S. Barker. 2010. Ancient genome duplications during the evolution of kiwifruit (Actinidia) and related Ericales. Annals of Botany 106: 497-504.
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