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Animal Science and Veterinary

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40
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10085
World Ranking
1128
National Ranking
32

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World Ranking
6265
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Overview

Dong Ren is affiliated with Capital Normal University in China and specializes in Agricultural and Biological Sciences with a focus on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Paleontology, Ecology, and Plant Science.

Their research primarily addresses topics such as Fossil Insects in Amber, Plant and Animal Studies, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Coleoptera Taxonomy and Distribution, Hymenoptera Taxonomy and Phylogeny, Lepidoptera Biology and Taxonomy, and Plant Diversity and Evolution.

Dong Ren has contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • Early specializations for mimicry and defense in a Jurassic stick insect, 2020, National Science Review
  • Behaviors and Interactions of Insects in Mid-Mesozoic Ecosystems of Northeastern China, 2020, Annual Review of Entomology
  • Florivory of Early Cretaceous flowers by functionally diverse insects: implications for early angiosperm pollination, 2021, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Adsorption of Pb(II) from water by treatment with an O-hydroxyphenyl thiourea-modified chitosan, 2022, International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
  • Early evolution of wing scales prior to the rise of moths and butterflies, 2022, Current Biology

Frequent co-authors in Dong Ren's publications include Chungkun Shih, Taiping Gao, Yunzhi Yao, Yongjie Wang, and Michael S. Engel.

Key publication venues where Dong Ren has frequently published include:

  • Cretaceous Research
  • Palaeoentomology
  • Insects
  • Zootaxa
  • ZooKeys

Best Publications

  • A Probable Pollination Mode Before Angiosperms: Eurasian, Long-Proboscid Scorpionflies

    Dong Ren;Conrad C. Labandeira;Conrad C. Labandeira;Jorge A. Santiago-Blay;Jorge A. Santiago-Blay;Alexandr Rasnitsyn;Alexandr Rasnitsyn

  • The distribution of integumentary structures in a feathered dinosaur

    Qiang Ji;Mark A. Norell;Ke-Qin Gao;Shu-An Ji

  • Flower-associated Brachycera flies as fossil evidence for Jurassic angiosperm origins

    Dong Ren

  • New data from the Middle Jurassic of China shed light on the phylogeny and origin of the proboscis in the Mesopsychidae (Insecta: Mecoptera).

    Xiaodan Lin;Matthew J. H. Shih;Conrad C. Labandeira;Conrad C. Labandeira;Conrad C. Labandeira;Dong Ren

  • Wing stridulation in a Jurassic katydid (Insecta, Orthoptera) produced low-pitched musical calls to attract females

    Jun-Jie Gu;Fernando Montealegre-Z;Daniel Robert;Michael S. Engel

  • Ancient pinnate leaf mimesis among lacewings

    Yongjie Wang;Zhiqi Liu;Xin Wang;Chungkun Shih

  • A Remarkable New Family of Jurassic Insects (Neuroptera) with Primitive Wing Venation and Its Phylogenetic Position in Neuropterida

    Qiang Yang;Vladimir N. Makarkin;Vladimir N. Makarkin;Shaun L. Winterton;Alexander V. Khramov

  • Jurassic mimicry between a hangingfly and a ginkgo from China

    Yongjie Wang;Conrad C. Labandeira;Conrad C. Labandeira;Conrad C. Labandeira;Chungkun Shih;Qiaoling Ding

  • The evolutionary convergence of mid-Mesozoic lacewings and Cenozoic butterflies.

    Conrad C. Labandeira;Qiang Yang;Jorge A. Santiago-Blay;Carol L. Hotton

  • Extinct and extant rove beetles meet in the matrix: Early Cretaceous fossils shed light on the evolution of a hyperdiverse insect lineage (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae)

    Alexey Solodovnikov;Yanli Yue;Sergey Tarasov;Dong Ren

  • Mid-Mesozoic Flea-like Ectoparasites of Feathered or Haired Vertebrates

    Tai-ping Gao;Chung-kun Shih;Xing Xu;Shuo Wang

  • At last, a Pennsylvanian stem-stonefly (Plecoptera) discovered

    Olivier Béthoux;Yingying Cui;Boris Kondratieff;Bill Stark

  • An Updated Review of the Middle-Late Jurassic Yanliao Biota: Chronology, Taphonomy, Paleontology and Paleoecology

    Xing Xu;Zhonghe Zhou;Corwin Sullivan;Yuan Wang

  • Termite colonies from mid-Cretaceous Myanmar demonstrate their early eusocial lifestyle in damp wood.

    Zhipeng Zhao;Xiangchu Yin;Chungkun Shih;Chungkun Shih;Taiping Gao

  • New Transitional Fleas from China Highlighting Diversity of Early Cretaceous Ectoparasitic Insects

    Taiping Gao;Chungkun Shih;Alexandr P. Rasnitsyn;Alexandr P. Rasnitsyn;Xing(徐星) Xu

  • PALAEOECOLOGY OF INSECT COMMUNITY FROM MIDDLE JURASSIC JIULONGSHAN FORMATION IN NINGCHENG COUNTY,INNER MONGOLIA,CHINA

    J.-J Tan;D. Ren

  • New significant fossil insects from the Upper Carboniferous of Ningxia in northern China (Palaeodictyoptera, Archaeorthoptera)

    Jakub Prokop;Dong Ren

  • The Earliest Fossil Record of Pelecinid Wasps (Inseta: Hymenoptera: Proctotrupoidea: Pelecinidae) from Inner Mongolia, China

    Chungkun Shih;Chenxi Liu;Dong Ren

  • Life habits and evolutionary biology of new two-winged long-proboscid scorpionflies from mid-Cretaceous Myanmar amber

    Xiaodan Lin;Conrad C. Labandeira;Conrad C. Labandeira;Conrad C. Labandeira;Chungkun Shih;Chungkun Shih;Carol L. Hotton

  • A new genus of Tanyderidae (Insecta: Diptera) from Myanmar amber, Upper Cretaceous

    Fei Dong;Chungkun Shih;Dong Ren

  • Early evolution and historical biogeography of fishflies (Megaloptera: Chauliodinae): implications from a phylogeny combining fossil and extant taxa.

    Xingyue Liu;Yongjie Wang;Chungkun Shih;Dong Ren

  • A golden orb-weaver spider (Araneae: Nephilidae: Nephila) from the Middle Jurassic of China.

    Paul A. Selden;ChungKun Shih;Dong Ren

Frequent Co-Authors

Chungkun Shih
Chungkun Shih National Museum of Natural History
Conrad C. Labandeira
Conrad C. Labandeira Smithsonian Institution
Paul A. Selden
Paul A. Selden University of Kansas
Michael S. Engel
Michael S. Engel University of Kansas
Xingyue Liu
Xingyue Liu China Agricultural University
Richard A. B. Leschen
Richard A. B. Leschen Landcare Research
Xing Xu
Xing Xu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Rolf G. Beutel
Rolf G. Beutel Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Hu Li
Hu Li Guizhou University
Antónia Monteiro
Antónia Monteiro National University of Singapore

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