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2024
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2023

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Ecology and Evolution

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111
Citations
95411
World Ranking
157
National Ranking
21

Genetics

D-Index
110
Citations
92511
World Ranking
525
National Ranking
81

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2006 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

Ziheng Yang is a researcher affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their scholarly work centers primarily on Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a portfolio consisting of 131 publications in these areas.

The main subfields of Ziheng Yang's research include Genetics, Molecular Biology, Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Paleontology. These subfields reflect a multidisciplinary approach towards understanding biological systems and evolutionary processes.

Key topics covered in their research encompass:

  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
  • Identification and Quantification in Food
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
  • Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy

Ziheng Yang has contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • "Phylogenetic tree building in the genomic age" (2020), published in Nature Reviews Genetics
  • "A species-level timeline of mammal evolution integrating phylogenomic data" (2021), published in Nature
  • "Beginner's Guide on the Use of PAML to Detect Positive Selection" (2023), published in Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • "The nature of the last universal common ancestor and its impact on the early Earth system" (2024), published in Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Multispecies coalescent and its applications to infer species phylogenies and cross-species gene flow" (2021), published in National Science Review

Their research has been disseminated across a range of publication venues with frequent contributions to:

  • Systematic Biology (14 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (12 publications)
  • Molecular Biology and Evolution (11 publications)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (10 publications)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (3 publications)

Ziheng Yang has collaborated extensively with other researchers, including frequent co-authors:

  • Tomáš Flouri (25 collaborations)
  • Yuttapong Thawornwattana (18 collaborations)
  • James Mallet (17 collaborations)
  • Fernando Seixas (12 collaborations)
  • Xiyun Jiao (9 collaborations)

In recognition of their contributions to science, Ziheng Yang was named a Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, in 2006.

Best Publications

  • PAML 4: Phylogenetic Analysis by Maximum Likelihood

    Ziheng Yang

  • PAML: a program package for phylogenetic analysis by maximum likelihood

    Ziheng Yang

  • Maximum likelihood phylogenetic estimation from DNA sequences with variable rates over sites: approximate methods

    Ziheng Yang

  • Codon-Substitution Models for Heterogeneous Selection Pressure at Amino Acid Sites

    Ziheng Yang;Rasmus Nielsen;Nick Goldman;Anne Mette Krabbe Pedersen

  • Bayes Empirical Bayes Inference of Amino Acid Sites Under Positive Selection

    Ziheng Yang;Wendy Shuk Wan Wong;Rasmus Nielsen

  • A codon-based model of nucleotide substitution for protein-coding DNA sequences.

    N Goldman;Z Yang

  • Statistical methods for detecting molecular adaptation.

    Ziheng Yang;Joseph P. Bielawski

  • Probability Distribution of Molecular Evolutionary Trees: A New Method of Phylogenetic Inference

    Bruce Rannala;Ziheng Yang

  • A space-time process model for the evolution of DNA sequences.

    Ziheng Yang

  • Evaluation of an Improved Branch-Site Likelihood Method for Detecting Positive Selection at the Molecular Level

    Jianzhi Zhang;Rasmus Nielsen;Ziheng Yang

  • Likelihood Models for Detecting Positively Selected Amino Acid Sites and Applications to the HIV-1 Envelope Gene

    Rasmus Nielsen;Ziheng Yang;Ziheng Yang

  • Estimating Synonymous and Nonsynonymous Substitution Rates Under Realistic Evolutionary Models

    Ziheng Yang;Rasmus Nielsen

  • Likelihood ratio tests for detecting positive selection and application to primate lysozyme evolution.

    Ziheng Yang

  • Estimating the pattern of nucleotide substitution.

    Ziheng Yang

  • Bayesian phylogenetic inference using DNA sequences: a Markov Chain Monte Carlo Method.

    Z Yang;B Rannala

  • Codon-substitution models for detecting molecular adaptation at individual sites along specific lineages.

    Ziheng Yang;Rasmus Nielsen

  • Bayesian species delimitation using multilocus sequence data

    Ziheng Yang;Bruce Rannala

  • Among-site rate variation and its impact on phylogenetic analyses

    Ziheng Yang

  • Computational Molecular Evolution

    Ziheng Yang

  • Maximum-likelihood estimation of phylogeny from DNA sequences when substitution rates differ over sites.

    Ziheng Yang

  • Bayes Estimation of Species Divergence Times and Ancestral Population Sizes Using DNA Sequences From Multiple Loci

    Bruce Rannala;Ziheng Yang

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruce Rannala
Bruce Rannala University of California, Davis
Rasmus Nielsen
Rasmus Nielsen University of California, Berkeley
Philip C. J. Donoghue
Philip C. J. Donoghue University of Bristol
Nick Goldman
Nick Goldman European Bioinformatics Institute
Anne D. Yoder
Anne D. Yoder Duke University
Adam D. Leaché
Adam D. Leaché University of Washington
John P. Huelsenbeck
John P. Huelsenbeck University of California, Berkeley
Anjali Goswami
Anjali Goswami Natural History Museum
Willie J. Swanson
Willie J. Swanson University of Washington
Laurent Excoffier
Laurent Excoffier University of Bern

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